Learning path
Learning AI as a Professor
This path helps professors use AI for teaching, research, advising, and service. You start with setup, connect your AI, then practice prompts and short video courses chosen for academic work.
Your path
First steps
- Step 1Answer the setup questionsYour job, tasks and AI, so everything fits.
- Step 2Connect your AI: get an expert co-worker for your jobAdd one link to the ChatGPT, Claude or Grok you already use. From then on your own AI knows your work as a professor, and helps like an expert sitting next to you.
- Your daily brief, inside your AI. Just type "Good morning" for the AI news and tools that matter for professors, picked from everything that came out yesterday.
- New ideas every day, each with the prompt to do it, plus a short lesson in the right order for your level.
- Nothing to install, nothing to learn. Connect once and keep working the way you do now. It stays up to date by itself.
- Step 3Give your AI the skills of a top professorYour AI becomes a specialist in your job: it picks the right skill by itself, the moment you need it.
- 6,000+ ready-made skills, with the ones for professors picked for you: reports, analysis, emails, planning and more, done the expert way.
- 4,000+ MCP services that link your AI to the apps you already use, like your calendar, email, CRM or spreadsheets, so it can look things up and get work done there too.
- Build your own apps without coding. Your AI builds tools for your business from 2,000+ step-by-step app plans, so you stop paying for apps you could own.
- Always the newest. New skills and services are added every week and arrive in your AI by themselves.
- Skills picked for professors: summarize meetingmeeting notesprimary grade graderelementary grading assistantgrading assistant for teachersjournal ready manuscript studiogrant proposal support assistantgrading automation assistant
Take the prompt courses
A short framework course to learn how to ask, then 8 lessons with ready-to-use prompts for professors.
Start with this framework: how to talk to AI
Prompt framework course
RACE Prompt Framework: Role, Action, Context, Expectation
RACE helps professors specify role, action, context, and expectation, like asking for a grading rubric aligned to learning outcomes.
Then your prompt course for professors
Prompt course
AI for Professors (Prompt Course)
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107 video courses our AI picked for professors, most useful first. Save the ones you want to watch later with the heart.
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About this learning path
6 topicsAI Skills for Professors, Made Practical and Clear
You do not need to be technical. The path starts with simple setup questions and helps you connect the AI tool you already use, such as ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini.
Then you work through prompts for teaching, grading, advising, research, publishing, grants, and committee tasks. Short video courses and their certificates are chosen for professors, so your learning stays close to your daily work.
Why AI Matters Now
Professors face more tasks than ever: classes, feedback, research, service, and emails. AI can help you draft, organize, and explain, while you keep the judgment and care that students and colleagues expect.
What the Path Includes
The path begins with setup questions and a short guide to connecting your AI. You then practice skills inside your AI, take this prompt course, and choose video courses picked for professors, each with its own certificate.
How It Saves Time
You can use AI to prepare lecture examples, build grading rubrics, outline literature reviews, and draft committee notes. The time you save goes back to teaching, research, and rest.
How It Protects Your Career
Staying current with AI helps you work with changing expectations in higher education. The path also covers privacy, academic integrity, and transparent use, so you can adopt these tools with confidence.
How to Start
Begin with the setup questions and connect one AI tool you trust. Then take the first lesson of the prompt course and try it on a small task this week, such as a lecture outline or a feedback draft.
Frequently asked questions
Do I need technical skills to begin?
No. The path is written for professors who are not technical. It uses plain steps and asks you to work with the AI tool you already use.Will AI replace my teaching voice?
No. AI can draft options, examples, and feedback, but you decide what fits your course and students. Your expertise, tone, and standards remain central.Is it safe to use student information?
Follow your university rules and never paste private student details into a tool that is not approved. Use anonymized examples, and keep records of how you use AI in your work.How long does the path take?
You can move at your own pace. Most lessons are short and meant to fit between classes, meetings, and grading. Start with one lesson and add more when you are ready.