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Description: This course offers a focused exploration of prompting and iteration strategies for generative AI chatbots like Microsoft Copilot. Through collaborative, hands-on activities and interactive exercises, participants will learn to write clear, effective prompts, apply refinement techniques such as prompt chaining, and assess AI-generated outputs for accuracy and relevance to achieve more reliable and useful results in a variety of academic and non-academic contexts. 

This course is required to receive a digital badge for the AI Literacy Education Program.

Objectives: In this course, you will learn to: 

• Write effective prompts to get accurate and useful results from AI tools
• Refine and improve AI outputs using practical feedback and iteration techniques
• Evaluate AI-generated content to determine its accuracy and relevance to your needs

Duration: 90 minutes

Experience Level: Basic familiarity with generative AI chatbots like Microsoft Copilot or ChatGPT

Description: This course offers a focused exploration of prompting and iteration strategies for generative AI chatbots like Microsoft Copilot. Through collaborative, hands-on activities and interactive exercises, participants will learn to write clear, effective prompts, apply refinement techniques such as prompt chaining, and assess AI-generated outputs for accuracy and relevance to achieve more reliable and useful results in a variety of academic and non-academic contexts. 

This course is required to receive a digital badge for the AI Literacy Education Program.

Objectives: In this course, you will learn to: 

• Write effective prompts to get accurate and useful results from AI tools
• Refine and improve AI outputs using practical feedback and iteration techniques
• Evaluate AI-generated content to determine its accuracy and relevance to your needs

Duration: 90 minutes

Experience Level: Basic familiarity with generative AI chatbots like Microsoft Copilot or ChatGPT

Description: This course offers a focused exploration of prompting and iteration strategies for generative AI chatbots like Microsoft Copilot. Through collaborative, hands-on activities and interactive exercises, participants will learn to write clear, effective prompts, apply refinement techniques such as prompt chaining, and assess AI-generated outputs for accuracy and relevance to achieve more reliable and useful results in a variety of academic and non-academic contexts. 

This course is required to receive a digital badge for the AI Literacy Education Program.

Objectives: In this course, you will learn to: 

• Write effective prompts to get accurate and useful results from AI tools
• Refine and improve AI outputs using practical feedback and iteration techniques
• Evaluate AI-generated content to determine its accuracy and relevance to your needs

Duration: 90 minutes

Experience Level: Basic familiarity with generative AI chatbots like Microsoft Copilot or ChatGPT

Description: This course introduces generative AI to those with little or no prior experience engaging with this emerging technology. Participants obtain a foundational understanding of generative AI, its associated opportunities and implications, and basic strategies for composing and iterating prompts. Participants will be expected to engage in hands-on interaction with the Microsoft Copilot chatbot to begin generating practical outputs for personal and professional use cases. 

This course is an elective that counts toward receiving a digital badge for the AI Literacy Education Program.   

Objectives: In this course, you will learn to:  

• Summarize what generative AI is, how it works, and how it differs from other AI types
• Describe accuracy and ethical considerations associated with generative AI
• Identify task-related opportunities with generative AI
• Apply foundational prompting strategies to produce practical outputs with generative AI chatbots

Duration: 90 minutes

Experience Level: Little or no familiarity with generative AI and/or AI chatbots necessary

Description: This course introduces generative AI to those with little or no prior experience engaging with this emerging technology. Participants obtain a foundational understanding of generative AI, its associated opportunities and implications, and basic strategies for composing and iterating prompts. Participants will be expected to engage in hands-on interaction with the Microsoft Copilot chatbot to begin generating practical outputs for personal and professional use cases. 

This course is an elective that counts toward receiving a digital badge for the AI Literacy Education Program.   

Objectives: In this course, you will learn to:  

• Summarize what generative AI is, how it works, and how it differs from other AI types
• Describe accuracy and ethical considerations associated with generative AI
• Identify task-related opportunities with generative AI
• Apply foundational prompting strategies to produce practical outputs with generative AI chatbots

Duration: 90 minutes

Experience Level: Little or no familiarity with generative AI and/or AI chatbots necessary

ChatGPT Day is a hands-on, on-campus event designed to spark curiosity and creativity around AI. It’s a chance for students, faculty, and staff to explore what’s possible with ChatGPT and hear how peers are already using it to teach, learn, and build. The day includes interactive sessions, live demos, and conversations with the OpenAI team.

Date: Wednesday, May 7, 2025
Location: LIB 280

Agenda

Please RSVP to reserve your spot at SFSU ChatGPT Day.

This workshop covers the basics of using ChatGPT Edu, including overviews of the interface and fundamentals for usage. This workshop is designed as a technological primer for the tool and is designed for those who are curious but have never used it before.

Learn more about ChatGPT Edu for SFSU

This workshop covers the basics of using ChatGPT Edu, including overviews of the interface and fundamentals for usage. This workshop is designed as a technological primer for the tool and is designed for those who are curious but have never used it before.

Learn more about ChatGPT Edu for SFSU

Learn the Skills to Harness New Tools, for Higher Ed. Professionals/Staff

This introduction begins with which AI tool to use and how to think about tasks and prompting. AI prompts need to provide more human context and be more literal than the ones we tend to use with a search engine. Since AI uses natural human language, it also needs human-level communication precision: prompt as if you were talking to smart but naïve interns. Prompting is not at all like engineering. In this interactive workshop, you will get to practice lots of techniques on a wide variety of rapidly-evolving AI tools.  Our goal is to get a realistic understanding of how AI is already changing human work and thinking and how you might begin to use it to improve your own work.

• We will develop skill using various AI tools.
• We will consider a range of staff tasks where AI might be useful.

When: Apr 7, 2025 2:00PM PDT

Speaker: José Antonio Bowen

Register Now!

Part of the "AI Across the CSU: Innovations and Insights" lunch and learn series

AI Across the CSU: Innovations and Insights 

Join us for an exploration of good work with Generative Artificial Intelligence going on within the CSU system. This four-part “lunch and learn” series will take place every other Wednesday, at noon, March 26 to May 7. It explores best practices for course design, campus engagement, and exploration from your peers. Each 45-minute webinar is a stand-alone session, but there will be common threads throughout. All material will be recorded and shared so that good ideas can be implemented on different campuses. We look forward to sharing the great work being done within the CSU.

May 7 - 12:00 -12:45

Fostering AI Literacy

Learn more: AI Webinar Series | CSU AI Commons