Fall 2025 General Offerings
GenAI Faculty Resources Canvas Site
Prepares you to apply generative AI (gAI) technology efficiently, effectively, and ethically to level up learning in the classes you teach. Online and asynchronous.
After completing this course, you will be able to:
- Articulate and differentiate how language-based and image-based generative AI tools actually work.
- Describe an action plan for ensuring student awareness of bias, privacy, and other ethical concerns inherent in using generative AI tools.
- Construct a syllabus statement on using generative AI tools appropriate to at least one of your courses.
- Understand the variety of popular generative AI options and selectively build a tailored toolkit appropriate to your academic work.
- Iteratively refine prompt results leading to effective querying of generative AI.
Once you have completed the SDSU microcredential, upload the course completion certificate to this
form
to count toward the AI Learning Trailblazer certificate program.
Writing Your AI-Ready Syllabus Policies
Facilitated by Leslie Bruce
In under an hour, this asynchronous WAC LIAISONS workshop will guide faculty through adapting their syllabi academic integrity policies for the presence of AI. Policy definitions, expectations, rationale, guidance, and repercussions will be modeled and explained.
Engaging AI Critically with Your Students
Facilitated by Leslie Bruce
Take this asynchronous workshop at your own pace. Learn some of the promises and perils of AI chatbots, explore ways to support critical thinking about AI in class, and draft your own in-class AI-infused activity for feedback.
Critical Thinking through AI Prompting
Facilitated by Leslie Bruce
This asynchronous WAC LIAISONS workshop will introduce recent research on critical thinking and AI use, then explore a few generalizable ideas for using student-LLM interactions to strengthen students' critical thinking skills as they increase their subject mastery.
Spark Creativity with Adobe Podcast
Facilitated by Shelli Wynants
Explore creative ways to enhance your teaching with Adobe Podcast, a free tool available through our campus Adobe Creative Cloud license. This 1-hour virtual session includes a live demo of its easy-to-use interface and showcases how AI-powered features automatically improve audio quality for professional-sounding recordings. Join Dr. Shelli Wynants to discover dynamic ways audio can enrich student learning. (1-hour certificate credit)
GπT: From Idea to Grant-Winning Custom GPT
Facilitated by Matheus Guerrero and Sunny Lee
What began as an assignment in an FDC/WAC workshop has grown into GπT, a grant-winning custom GPT project recognized by the California Education Learning Lab’s AI Fast Challenge. In this hands-on session, we’ll introduce GπT and show how we are refining it to create course-specific teaching bots like "Geppetto," a mock-interviewer that engages students in job interviews based on their course content. Participants will build their own prototypes while learning about common pitfalls—token limits, file quirks, and keeping bots on task—and will leave with both practical skills and cautionary tales.
Using Generative AI to Visualize Family Narratives: Reimagining Safe and Protected Ways to Share Equity-Oriented Interviews
Facilitated by Teddy Chao
The Who We Serve: Family Educational History project invites future teachers to interview three generations of a family, tracing the intersections of migration, language, culture, socioeconomics, race, and identity in their educational journeys. These are important stories that expose very vulnerable truths. In this reimagining of this assignment, teachers use generative AI tools to craft images that bring these stories to life instead of exposing the family histories with photographs or video. By weaving together oral history, critical reflection, and ethical AI integration, this assignment aims to help teachers understanding how power, privilege, and oppression shape schooling across generations. This talk will highlight the ethics of using AI in reimagining this assignment, ethical safeguards, and reflections on using AI to amplify—not replace—critical inquiry into family histories.
Adapting Major Assignments to Reduce AI Reliance
Facilitated by Leslie Bruce
Attempts to evade and detect generative AI use in coursework are never foolproof. To ensure student learning, we can adapt our assignments to better engage students. Focusing on longer assignments and projects, this asynchronous workshop introduces six strategies for reducing AI use in your favorite major assignments.
AI LinkedIn Learning Pathways (Online and Asynchronous)
New to LinkedIn? Read this
article on how to access LinkedIn Learning
with your CSUF username.
Explore the fundamentals of generative AI, its applications, and the ethical considerations surrounding bias in this 2.5-hour LinkedIn video series designed for staff and faculty. (2.5-hour certificate credit)
Advance your skills in generative AI with this intermediate 3-hour LinkedIn video series, designed for staff and faculty to enhance aptitude, communication, and critical thinking with AI. (3-hour certificate credit)
