TRAIIL Submission Guidelines

Please visit the Author Corner and review the Guide for Authors for general information such as when entries are published, rights and permissions, AI use, accessibility, and how to request changes to existing entries.

Submitting an entry to TRAIIL consists of the following steps:

  • Create or ensure access to bepress/Digital Commons account
  • Gather information about the submission
  • Read and accept the Submission Agreement
  • Upload your entry and related artifacts

Create bepress/Digital Commons Account

To submit an entry to TRAIIL, you must have a bepress/Digital Commons account. This allows the platform to manage your submission and provide the security measures needed for peer-reviewed submissions. Accounts are freely available.

If you do not already have a bepress/Digital Commons account, you may create an account now.

Create an Account

Gather Information about Submission

Before you begin, please be sure you have the following items:

  • Entry Title
  • Name and Contact Information for Author(s)
  • Category: Choose the category that best describes how AI is utilized in the strategy.
    • Ideation and Structuring (for brainstorming, creating structures, and generating ideas for improving work)
    • Editing (to make improvements to the clarity or quality of student created work to improve the final output)
    • Task Execution with Human Oversight (to complete certain elements of the task, with students providing discussion or commentary on the AI-generated content)
    • Full Integration and Automation (AI is used throughout the task to create or automate the work)
  • Entry Description (1-3 sentences)
  • Context (institution type, modality, course level, AI tool used, discipline)
  • Keywords
  • Learning Objectives
  • Entry: Download the entry template. The entry should contain details about the course context, how AI was implemented to support student learning, and the strategy’s effectiveness. Please indicate where artifacts should be placed. If AI was used to craft the submission, indicate that in the Acknowledgements section.
  • Artifacts: To ensure that readers can understand and replicate the strategy, it is highly encouraged to include relevant artifacts. Example artifacts include documents, screenshots, images, videos, audio, lesson plans, student examples (without identifying information), or other files.

Upload Entry and Artifacts

Before uploading the entry and artifacts, ensure that you have:

  • Removed identifying information (e.g., your last name in the file name, your name in headers/footers or artifacts)
  • Removed page numbers
  • Included accessible content
    • Source documents: When creating a Word document, PowerPoint presentation, or Excel spreadsheet improve accessibility with the built-in accessibility checker for the source software and keep the accessibility panel open to promptly recognize issues as you create the file.
    • PDFs: To create an accessible PDF, it is crucial to begin with an accessible source document and use Adobe Acrobat Pro to create and verify PDF accessibility.
    • Videos: Videos must have captions where text is shown in real time on the screen and is synchronized with audio content.
    • Audio: Audio files must have an accompanying transcript that contains the text version of speech and non-speech content in the audio content.
    • Images: Alternative text that is accurate, equivalent, and succinct must be provided to convey the meaning of an image.
  • Adhered to the policies of TRAIIL contained in the Guide for Authors

If you are having difficulties uploading files, please email your artifacts to . No part of the submission is final until all steps have been completed and you click the final Submit button. The review process begins as soon as TRAIIL receives a readable article. You may revise any of these elements later by clicking the submitted entry's title on your My Account page.

Shortly after submission, you will receive an email confirming your submission.