Prepare course materials, such as syllabi, homework assignments, and handouts.

“Prepare course materials, such as syllabi, homework assignments, and handouts.” is a core task performed by Area, Ethnic, and Cultural Studies Teachers, Postsecondary. Among the occupation's 23 rated tasks, workers place it 20th by importance (#4 most important). About 99% of workers say it is relevant to their job.

This is a single occupation-specific task statement from O*NET. The figures below describe how central the task is to the job and what independent studies measure about AI and this kind of work — not a prediction that the task will be automated.

Work activities this task rolls up to

O*NET groups concrete tasks into broader work activities shared across many occupations.

• Prepare informational or instructional materials. in Documenting/Recording Information

AI exposure

The OpenAI / Eloundou “GPTs are GPTs” study rates this task E1. Direct exposure — a language model could plausibly cut the time to do this task by at least half.

Exposure measures whether a model could meaningfully speed the task up — it is an estimate of overlap with model capabilities, not a measure of whether the work will be done by software. The study's intermediate score (β) for this task is 1.00. Automation potential label: T3.

How AI is actually used on this kind of task

The Anthropic Economic Index observes how people actually use AI on tasks like this one across millions of real conversations.

• 0.030% share of AI-use records mapped to this task
• 56% of that use is work-related
• Most common interaction: directive
• Average autonomy of the AI: 3.5 (1–5; higher = more autonomous)
• 94% of interactions still needed a human in the loop

Observed AI use describes people choosing to use AI as a tool on this kind of task today. It is augmentation and assistance, not a measure of jobs replaced.

Working with AI vs. handing it off

Of the AI conversations mapped to this task, the split between people working alongside AI and people delegating the task to it.

How people interact with AI on this task

Other tasks in this occupation

• Initiate, facilitate, and moderate classroom discussions. · importance 4.8
• Evaluate and grade students' class work, assignments, and papers. · importance 4.7
• Prepare and deliver lectures to undergraduate or graduate students on topics such as race and ethnic relations, gender studies, and cross-cultural perspectives. · importance 4.6
• Keep abreast of developments in the field by reading current literature, talking with colleagues, and participating in professional conferences. · importance 4.4
• Compile, administer, and grade examinations, or assign this work to others. · importance 4.4
• Plan, evaluate, and revise curricula, course content, course materials, and methods of instruction. · importance 4.1
• Conduct research in a particular field of knowledge and publish findings in professional journals, books, or electronic media. · importance 4.1
• Maintain regularly scheduled office hours to advise and assist students. · importance 4.1
• Maintain student attendance records, grades, and other required records. · importance 4.0
• Collaborate with colleagues to address teaching and research issues. · importance 3.8
• Advise students on academic and vocational curricula, and on career issues. · importance 3.8
• Select and obtain materials and supplies, such as textbooks. · importance 3.8
• Perform administrative duties, such as serving as department head. · importance 3.7
• Serve on academic or administrative committees that deal with institutional policies, departmental matters, and academic issues. · importance 3.6

See all tasks on the Area, Ethnic, and Cultural Studies Teachers, Postsecondary page.

Sources for this page

Every figure above traces to a named public dataset and the exact release below — not hand-written opinion. See the full methodology for what each measure does and does not mean.

• O*NET 30.3 U.S. Department of Labor / National Center for O*NET Development
• Anthropic Economic Index v4 (2026-01-15) + v2 (2025-03-27) Anthropic
• “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130 OpenAI / academic

Data compiled June 2, 2026. Figures are estimates, not advice.

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  title  = {Prepare course materials, such as syllabi, homework assignments, and handouts.},
  author = {{Singulariki}},
  year   = {2026},
  note   = {O*NET 30.3; Anthropic Economic Index v4 (2026-01-15) + v2 (2025-03-27); “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130. Accessed June 7, 2026},
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}