Seven unit-specific custom GPT chatbots for pharmaceutical science units¶
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Description¶
Seven custom GPT chatbots (cGPTs) were co-created for six undergraduate units in a Bachelor of Pharmaceutical Science program: Polymer Knowledge, Polymer Socratic, Physiology 1, Physiology 2, Medicinal Chemistry 1, Physical Chemistry 2, and Scientific Inquiry. Purposes ranged from a virtual tutor supporting scientific writing to Socratic chatbots guiding problem-solving and alkene halogenation. By the end of development, "seven distinct yet consistent student-staff-designed cGPT tools had been created, each tailored to its unit's content and learning activities".
Design Implications¶
Context¶
Requirements¶
- Built via the Create GPT function within an OpenAI Plus account, with system prompts and curated knowledge-base files
Constraints¶
- Development took two to six weeks depending on topic, student experience, and available resources; model updates (GPT-5, Study mode) changed cGPT behaviour mid-project
Target Learners¶
- undergraduate pharmaceutical science students
Learning Goals¶
- discipline-specific problem solving
- scientific writing
- polymer concept understanding
Claims¶
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Examples¶
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Key Sources¶
- Lo S, Lea T, Mavromoustakos A, Joseph B, Yii M, Exintaris B, Karunaratne N, Pearson DL, Ritchie T, Yuriev E and Pyun J (2026) Co-creating custom GPTs: an autoethnographic study of undergraduate students as partners in generative AI innovation. Front. Educ. 11:1818781. https://doi.org/10.3389/feduc.2026.1818781
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Seven unit-specific custom GPT chatbots for pharmaceutical science units |
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Seven custom GPT chatbots (cGPTs) were co-created for six undergraduate units in a Bachelor of Pharmaceutical Science program: Polymer Knowledge, Polymer Socratic, Physiology 1, Physiology 2, Medicinal Chemistry 1, Ph... |
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