7. Teaching Tools and Feedback
Rice Business 2026
Kerry Back
Rice Business
Rice Business
Odds and Ends
- AI Lab (exec ed, mba launch)
- Survey and screenshare
- Participation recorder
- Narrated slide decks
- Quarto slides
- Presentation feedback
- Run models locally
Presentation Feedback
| Yoodli | Pace, filler words, pitch and interview role-play |
| Orai | Mobile, gamified, cheapest of the four |
| VirtualSpeech | A simulated room and audience |
| Speaker Coach | Already inside PowerPoint and Teams |
Coach delivery based on the creators’ rubrics.
Running Models Locally
| To run | You need |
|---|---|
| Frontier models | Millions of dollars of GPUs |
| A 20–30B model, quantized | A workstation, a high-end Mac, NVIDIA Spark |
| A 2–8B model | Any laptop |
Hugging Face hosts millions of open-weight models at huggingface.co. Ollama is the thing that downloads one and runs it.
Examples
- Install Ollama from ollama.com
ollama run gemma4:e4b
gemma4:e2b |
7.2 GB | 2.3B effective |
gemma4:e4b |
9.6 GB | 4.5B effective |
gemma4:12b |
7.6 GB | Dense |
gemma4:26b |
18 GB | MoE, 3.8B active |
gemma4:31b |
20 GB | Dense |
Path Forward
- AI Working Group
- Anything else?
Rice Business — Faculty Workshop