GenAI Certificate Program for Faculty & Staff

Making Sense of AI Literacy
(45 min)

(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 GenAI applications and integrations
• direct participants to the ITS GenAI Hub website for continuing updates
• outline overarching concerns and benefits of GenAI in the higher ed context
• help participants consider equity & ethics across GenAI use & decisioning
• provide a lens to take in coming topics in the certificate series. 

Using AI Safely and Securely
(45 min)

(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. An introduction to reviewing ChatGPT's settings to ensure appropriate use.

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

Instructor, Insun Cho

GenAI Tools: Explore ChatGPT and Perplexity
(1 hour)

(Required for faculty and staff)

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

• Introduction to ChatGPT and Perplexity as selected LLM tools.
• Why these LLM tools?
• Introduce ChatGPT 4.o features and discuss the pros and cons.
• Introduce Perplexity features and discuss the pros and cons.
• Use of voice to speak into the application and mimicing of voices

Instructor, Eileen Lai, Ken Yoshioka, Poonam Kakodkar

GenAI and Assessment
(45 min)

(Required for faculty only)

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

• grade the journey—process & product
• re-prioritize critical thinking in GenAI use context
• interweave GenAI tools for development purposes
• expanded assessment components
• reach outside LLM GenAI tools’ training data

Instructor, Jill Ballard

GenAI Syllabus Statement and Considerations
(45 min)

Introduce the three syllabus statement templates and considerations.

• Provide a student perspective for GenAI usage and the importance of course-level communication to address GenAI
• Provide the three syllabus statements AND their inclusion in Simple Syllabus (and available outside SS) in FA24
• Outline faculty considerations for choosing and customizing a syllabus statement
• Present ways to customize and account for syllabus statement expectations across the course and within coursework.

Instructor, Jill Ballard

GenAI Prompt Engineering for Learning, Teaching and Research
(1 hour)

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 about the AI tools USF has enabled in Zoom accounts-Meeting Summary and Smart Recording which creates, using AI summaries and smart chaptering of the conversation and shared content in meetings.

Instructor, Ken Yoshioka

Leverage GenAI to create imagery and learn how to write descriptive prompts to quickly and easily generate extraordinary images.  We will also explore Adobe's Firefly, and the same technology integrated with Adobe Express.  Additionally, we will explore image creation and interpretations in ChatGPT.

• Adobe Firefly GenAI features
• Adobe Express GenAI features
• Text-to-image
• Generative fill
• Generative remove
• Text effects
• Prompting for images
• ChatGPT image creation and interpretation

Instructor, Eileen Lai