SIGCSE TS 2026 Special Session

This page highlights the six tools presented during our SIGCSE TS 2026 special session.

Each entry includes a short description, a link to presentation slides, and a link to the tool.

Session Intro Slides

Introduction deck for the ACM Generative AI Task Force special session at SIGCSE TS 2026: Open Intro Slides

Brainstorming with an LLM

Presenter: Kristin Stephens-Martinez

A structured activity where students use iterative dialogue with an LLM to generate and refine research questions for a semester-long data science project.

ANVIL

Presenter: Anastasiia Birillo

A system that automatically generates textual and video analogies to explain computing concepts, providing personalized materials to support student engagement and understanding.

Ente

Presenter: Sverrir Thorgeirsson

An online platform for deploying custom LLM tutors for introductory CS exercises, illustrating its use in a large classroom study and how instructors can adapt it for their own courses.

Purplex

Presenter: David H. Smith IV

An integrated environment that helps novices build code-comprehension and prompting skills through Explain-in-Plain-Language tasks with GenAI-powered automated grading and scaffolding.

CodeHelp

Presenter: Mark Liffiton

An automated TA platform featuring focused tutors, instructor-defined AI chatbots aligned to specific learning objectives, modules, or assessment goals.

Autocompletion Quiz

Presenter: Rahad Arman Nabid

A tool that converts coding tasks into step-by-step quizzes with AI-generated distractors to build expertise around AI suggestions and support students' metacognitive planning and reflection.