The USF AI Certificate Program for Faculty & Staff

• Making Sense of AI Literacy workshop
• Using AI Safely and Securely workshop
• Introduction to Google Gemini workshop
• Introduction to Gemini Notebook workshop
• AI and Assessment workshop
• Final project (approximately 1 hour)

• Making Sense of AI Literacy workshop
• Using AI Safely and Securely workshop
• Introduction to Google Gemini workshop
• Two elective workshops 
  (If you choose the asynchronous course, the Agentic AI and Gemini Notebook workshops take the place of the electives.)
• Final project (approximately 1 hour)

Making Sense of AI Literacy

Required for Faculty and Staff 

Address the role of AI literacy in the current context of higher education, including:

• Providing an AI-literate lens to inform subsequent topics in the AI Certificate series
• Defining current AI tools and their uses
• Reviewing a multi-tenet AI literacy framework with applications to faculty, staff, and students 
• Exploring ethical issues impacting the use of AI tools and decision-making 

Instructor, Jill Ballard

Using AI Safely and Securely

Required for Faculty and Staff 

Discussion of the Guidelines for Responsible Use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) at USF, along with best practices for using AI safely and securely.

• Personally Identifiable Information (PII)
• USF Information Classification

Instructor, Insun Cho

Introduction to Google Gemini

Required for Faculty and Staff 

This workshop provides an overview of Google Gemini to support teaching, learning, and professional administrative practices at USF. 

• Identify the Google Gemini application used at USF, Gemini for Education 
• Recall key USF security and data protection issues when using Google Gemini at USF
• Identify Google Gemini's features and functionality

Instructor, Eileen Lai

AI and Assessment

Required for Faculty

Staff can take this as an elective.

Overview of the issues and opportunities AI presents to assessment in higher education, including:

• Evaluating the current AI context in higher education
• Provide evolving pedagogical approaches for redesigning assessments and learning activities to incorporate AI tools responsibly and critically 
• Develop an AI course policy with USF's syllabus statements

Instructor, Jill Ballard

Introduction to Gemini Notebook

Required for Faculty

Staff can take this as an elective.

In this workshop, you will learn how to use Google Gemini Notebook to support teaching and learning and gain a foundational understanding of its capabilities.

• Compare Gemini Notebook and how it differs from general-purpose AI tools.
• Identify the key features available in our Gemini Notebook plan.
• Prepare to set up and use a notebook optimally, including the Studio panel.
• Examine Gemini Notebook in action through a live demo and use cases.

Instructor, Poonam Kakodkar

Agentic AI is on the rise and becoming more visible in our daily lives, but it isn’t always clear how to recognize it and what to look for. In this class, we will cover the following:

• Develop a general understanding of agentic AI,
• Identify agentic AI in different scenarios and applications,
• Compare agentic AI functionality to GenAI,
• Use agentic AI in deep research mode in Gemini Notebook.

Instructors, John Bansavich, Jill Ballard, Poonam Kakodkar

Learn how to write descriptive prompts to quickly and easily generate extraordinary images.  

• Explore Adobe Firefly, Adobe Express, ChatGPT, and Gemini to generate images
• Focus: text-to-image, generative fill, generative remove, text effects
• Prompting and citations for images
• Compare AI generated outputs from different tools

Instructor, Eileen Lai

Turnitin is USF's anti-plagiarism and citation-checking tool and is integrated into Canvas. In this class, we will cover the following:

• Turnitin’s AI detection tool will be discussed and demonstrated.
• Discussion of the pros and cons of using an AI detection tool and how to communicate the use of the tool to students.
• Concerns over bias and false positives will be discussed.
• Mention of Gradescope as an AI grading tool.

Instructor, Greg Crum

Discover how to write effective prompts to be more successful in your use of Gemini and other AI chatbots. Learn about two prompt frameworks to guide your process for writing more contextualized and persona-focused prompts.

• Apply best practices for prompting to leverage AI capabilities for specific tasks and contexts.
• Understand how prompt frameworks can help approach and organize effective prompt writing and review.
• Critically write and revise prompts that incorporate context, persona, and clear instructions

Instructors, John Bansavich (DLI), Penny Scott, and Randy Souther (Gleeson Library)

Learn about the AI tools USF has enabled in Zoom - Meeting Summary, which summarizes all conversations and shared content in meetings; and Smart Recording, which creates AI summaries, smart chapters, and transcripts.

Instructor, Eileen Lai