Curated by Stanford University IT
Ordered journeys that combine Stanford guidance with the best vendor courses, sequenced around an outcome, not a search result.
7 ways forward
Each path is short enough to finish, specific enough to be useful, and grounded in Stanford's policies and supported tools.
Path 01Developers and technical staffintermediate
You hold an AI API Gateway key charged to your PTA, have made a successful chat completion call to aiapi-prod.stanford.edu, and know which data classifications may pass through it.
5 steps About 1.5 hours
and 2 more steps
Start this path →Path 02Faculty, instructors and teaching teamsbeginner
You can state Stanford's expectations for AI use in coursework, have a Claude for Education account, and have tried a guided-learning mode on one topic from your own course before deciding whether students should.
5 steps About 2 hours
and 2 more steps
Start this path →Path 03Staff and faculty new to AIbeginner
You have a Stanford ChatGPT Edu account, can say which data you may put into it, and have drafted and revised one real document in it with a prompt you wrote yourself.
6 steps About 1 hour
and 3 more steps
Start this path →Path 04Staff and researchers handling sensitive dataall levels
You can name which Stanford AI services are approved for High Risk data and which for PHI, place your own use case on Stanford's AI risk tiers, and choose the right tool before you paste anything.
6 steps
and 3 more steps
Start this path →Path 05Staffbeginner
You have one recurring piece of your own work, such as a weekly report, set up as a Project in ChatGPT Edu with your template and standing instructions, and you know which data may go into it.
6 steps About 4 hours
and 3 more steps
Start this path →Path 06Researchers and research staffintermediate
You can match a dataset's risk classification to an approved Stanford AI service, have requested AI API Gateway access if your data needs it, and have produced one cited literature scan you verified source by source.
6 steps About 1.5 hours
and 3 more steps
Start this path →Path 07Developers and power usersadvanced
You have one agent running against the AI API Gateway with least-privilege access and a confirmation step before any external action, built with Claude Code, Codex or a no-code agent designer.
6 steps About 4 hours
and 3 more steps
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