This presentation is a lecture and demonstration of how Slack bots can be used to help college instructors with awareness of learning dynamics that can help support differentiated instruction and emotional support. Using real teaching case-studies from design courses, examples on how bots can help direct attention, automate guidance, and collect data for subsequent analysis is explored. The intention is to allow educators and designers to consider bots and their role in augmenting the role of the instructor in design education.
