Faculty Workshop  ·  August 2026

Claude for Teaching & Research

Seven 1-hour sessions• Zoom

led by Kerry Back

Week 1 August 10–14

AUG 103:00–4:00 PM

AI/Claude Intro

Claude Desktop, Claude plugin for Excel, prompting, code execution and documents

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AUG 113:00–4:00 PM

Working with Claude

Claude Code, command line tools, CLAUDE.md and skills, PowerPoint assistant

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AUG 123:00–4:00 PM

Teaching Tools

Create whatever you want: graders, voiceovers, participation notes, polls

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AUG 133:00–4:00 PM

AI Tutors

NotebookLM, RAG, skills as tutors

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AUG 143:00–4:00 PM

Corporate AI

Enterprise seats vs the API, connectors, a secure data agent, RAG

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Week 2 August 17–19

AUG 173:00–4:00 PM

AI for Research

Knowledge database, analyst/replicator, generator/critic

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AUG 18 

No Session

AUG 193:00–5:00 PM

Odds and Ends

AI Lab, the survey and screen share apps, participation, narrated decks, presentation feedback, running models locally

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