GenAI Certificate Program for Faculty & Staff

• Making Sense of AI Literacy (45 mins) 
• Using AI Safely and Securely (45 mins)
• AI Tool: Google Gemini (or Explore ChatGPT)
  (45 mins)
• AI and Assessment (60 mins)
  Note: Staff can take this as an Elective
• One Elective workshop
• Final Project (approximately 1 hour)

• Making Sense of AI Literacy (45 mins)
• Using AI Safely and Securely (45 mins)
• AI Tool: Google Gemini (or Explore ChatGPT)  (45 mins)
• Two Elective Workshops
• Final Project (approximately 1 hour)

Making Sense of AI Literacy
(45 mins)

(Required for faculty and staff—take this class before others.)

• Reiterate the need for AI literacy in education and professional spheres
• Provide an introduction to a range of AI applications and integrations
• Direct participants to the ITS AI Hub website for continuing updates
• Outline the overarching concerns and benefits of AI in the higher ed context
• Help participants consider equity & ethics across AI use & decisioning
• Provide a lens to take in coming topics in the certificate series. 

Using AI Safely and Securely
(45 mins)

(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.

• What Is Personally Identifiable Information (PII)?
• USF Information Classification

Instructor, Insun Cho

AI Tools: Google Gemini
(45 mins)

(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 Tools: Explore ChatGPT
(45 mins)

(Required for faculty and staff)

Join us for an informative session on ChatGPT! In this class, you will learn how to use this tool to support teaching and learning, explore the pros and cons, and gain a foundational understanding of its capabilities. Perfect for those new to this GenAI tool, this session will enhance your knowledge and confidence in utilizing AI for educational purposes.

• Introduction to ChatGPT as a selected LLM tool.
• Why ChatGPT?
• Introduce ChatGPT features and discuss the pros and cons.

Instructor, Eileen Lai

GenAI and Assessment
(60 mins)

(Required for faculty only; staff can take this as an Elective)

Overview of the issues and opportunities AI presents to traditional assessment in higher-ed. Provide five pedagogical approaches for assessment adaptation, including:

• Explore USF's Syllabus Statements
• Grade the journey—process & product
• Re-prioritize critical thinking in the AI use context
• Interweave AI tools for development purposes
• Expanded assessment components
• Reach outside AI tools’ training data

Instructor, Jill Ballard

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 ChatGPT.

Instructors, John Bansavich, Jill Ballard, Poonam Kakodkar

GenAI Prompt Engineering for Learning, Teaching and Research
(60 mins)

Discover how to write effective prompts to be more successful in your use of ChatGPT and other GenAI 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 GenAI 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, Susan Zolezzi, Claire Sharifi & Annie Pho (Gleeson Library)

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

Learn how to write descriptive prompts to quickly and easily generate extraordinary images.  We will explore features in three main tools: Adobe's Firefly, Adobe Express, and ChatGPT, and compare outputs.

• Adobe Firefly and Adobe Express GenAI features
• Focus: text-to-image, generative fill, generative remove, text effects
• Prompting and citations for images
• ChatGPT image creation and interpretation

Instructor, Eileen Lai

NotebookLM

(30 mins)

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

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

Instructor, Poonam Kakodkar

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