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AI Catalyst

Made at Stanford, for Stanford

Stanford sources.

Recordings, slide decks and upcoming sessions from the Stanford teams that teach AI here, grouped by the unit that made them.

  • ChatGPT Edu Tutorial
  • A Working Introduction: ChatGPT Edu
  • MicroLearning Academy
  • Watch and Learn: AI Video Library

Units

Recordings and decks

Programs

AI at Stanford overview

University IT's front door: every approved AI service by vendor, free tiers versus paid upgrades, Slack AI and Zoom AI Companion, links to the AI classes, and the responsible-use guides.

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ChatGPT Edu

Standard tier free for active faculty, staff, students and postdocs with a SUNet ID (the same models as OpenAI's $20 Enterprise plan); Pro needs a PTA. Approved for high-risk data and PHI. Request an account from the Get started links.

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Claude for Education

Claude Chat, Claude Code and Cowork. Standard tier free with a SUNet ID, Premium (about five times the quota) needs a PTA. Chat is approved for all data except PHI; Code and Cowork up to high-risk. Sign in at claude.ai with SSO.

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Gemini Enterprise AI

Agents, Deep Research and Gemini Notebook. Standard is free with a Stanford Google account and needs no request (40 queries a day); Pro needs a PTA (200 a day, no-code Agent Designer). Approved for high-risk data and PHI.

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AI Playground

Free Stanford-run workspace at aiplayground.stanford.edu with OpenAI, Google and Anthropic models side by side, for all faculty, staff and students. Approved for high-risk data but not PHI.

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AI Playground quick start guide

Signing in, choosing a model, plugins and assistants, installing the Playground as an app, and FAQs on tokens, context limits and hallucinations.

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AI API Gateway

OpenAI-compatible API access to the Playground models for your own tools. Needs a PTA, approved for high-risk data and PHI, billed against a monthly budget you set. Request a key with the Add AI API Gateway Key form (two to five days).

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AI API Gateway access and usage (KB00019978)

The real how-to, SUNet sign-in: base URL aiapi-prod.stanford.edu/v1, the Bearer key header, the model list (GPT, Claude, Gemini, DeepSeek, Llama) and the chat, embeddings and image endpoints with cURL and Postman examples.

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AI code assistants with the API Gateway

Setup guides for Claude Code (CLI and VS Code), OpenAI Codex CLI and Cline against the gateway, connecting a project to GitLab, best practices per tool and example use cases; the route that lets Claude Code work with PHI.

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Claude Cowork through the API Gateway

Five steps to point the Claude desktop app at the gateway (Developer mode, base URL aiapi-prod.stanford.edu, static API key, Bearer). Opus models recommended.

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Responsible AI at Stanford

Be aware, be careful, be transparent: what never to paste into a third-party tool (moderate and high-risk data, PHI, passwords, source code, NDA material), why hallucinated citations happen, and best practices by area.

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Responsible Agentic AI

For agents that act on your behalf: least privilege, read-only unless writes are essential, separate service accounts, human approval for consequential actions, and the risk tier every agent needs before deployment.

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Approved AI services by data risk

Searchable matrix of every Stanford-provided AI service: provider, who can use it, approved risk level from low to high-risk with PHI, use case, and free or paid. Check it before any Stanford data goes into a tool.

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ChatGPT Edu on your phone (KB00020806)

SUNet sign-in. Install the official OpenAI app, sign in with Stanford SSO, pick the Stanford Edu workspace, then work by text, voice and photo; chats sync with web and desktop.

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Claude Chat Projects (KB00020839)

SUNet sign-in. Set up a Chat Project in claude.ai so standing instructions and reference files (up to 30 MB each) follow every conversation, and when a Cowork Project is the better fit.

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Slide decks from Gemini Notebook (KB00020815)

SUNet sign-in. Turn the sources in a notebook into a PPTX with speaker notes and citations, as a detailed deck or presenter slides, at aiworkspace.stanford.edu.

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Move personal Claude chats to Stanford (KB00020984)

SUNet sign-in. Two best-effort ways to carry a personal-account conversation into your Stanford Enterprise account: export a reference file or ask Claude for a full summary, then upload it.

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Recordings and decks

Upcoming sessions

Stanford AI Playground 101: Practice and Exploration

Tuesday, September 89:00 AM PT3h

Live online, Tue Sep 8 2026, 9:00 am to 12:00 pm Pacific, one three-hour session, $200 (STAP eligible), certificate of completion. A beginner-friendly tour of the Stanford AI Playground: what LLMs an…

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Better AI Prompts for a Better Response

Thursday, September 109:00 AM PT3h

Live online, Thu Sep 10 2026, 9:00 am to 12:00 pm Pacific (repeats Wed Oct 21), three hours, $300, certificate of completion. Foundational prompt engineering with ChatGPT: how wording, context and co…

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Upload Your Docs, Walk Away with a Slide Deck: AI Presentations with Gemini Notebook (formerly NotebookLM)

Thursday, September 109:00 AM PT1h 30m

AI Skill Booster, live online, Thu Sep 10 2026, 9:00 to 10:30 am Pacific (repeats Thu Nov 5), 90 minutes, $150. Turn reports, policies and meeting transcripts into structured slide decks with speaker…

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Deep Research in 90 Minutes: Getting Up to Speed on Any Topic

Friday, September 119:00 AM PT1h 30m

AI Skill Booster, live online, Fri Sep 11 2026, 9:00 to 10:30 am Pacific, 90 minutes, $150. Use Gemini's Deep Research mode to gather and synthesize live web sources into cited reports, judge source…

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7 Amazing Things You Can Do with Anthropic Claude

Friday, September 111:00 PM PT3h

Live online, Fri Sep 11 2026, 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm Pacific (repeats Tue Oct 27), three hours, $325, Claude access provided for the exercises. Seven hands-on modules, one capability each: prompting, dee…

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Practical AI Applications for HR Professionals and Administrators - Certificate Workshop

Monday, September 149:00 AM PT3h

Live online certificate workshop, four three-hour sessions Mon Sep 14 to Wed Sep 23 2026, 9:00 am to 12:00 pm Pacific, $600, ChatGPT and Claude access provided. Prompting for HR work: job description…

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AI-Powered Project Management: Certificate Interactive Workshop

Tuesday, September 159:00 AM PT2h

Live online certificate workshop, six two-hour sessions on Tuesdays and Thursdays from Sep 15 to Oct 1 2026, 9:00 to 11:00 am Pacific, 18 hours, $1,200, 18 PDUs. Prompting and context engineering for…

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Amazing Results with AI-Powered Excel (Bootcamp + Certificate)

Tuesday, September 159:00 AM PT3h

Live online bootcamp, six three-hour sessions on Tuesdays and Thursdays from Sep 15 to Oct 1 2026, 9:00 am to 12:00 pm Pacific, $800, certificate on completion. Modern Excel with the Claude add-in an…

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Practical AI Techniques to Enhance Negotiation Skills: A Hands-On Interactive Certificate Workshop

Tuesday, September 151:00 PM PT3h

Live online certificate workshop, six three-hour sessions on Tuesdays and Thursdays from Sep 15 to Oct 1 2026, 1:00 to 4:00 pm Pacific, 18 hours, $1,200, 18 PDUs. You rehearse project-scope, vendor-c…

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Canva AI 2.0: Create, Automate, and Scale Content from Prompt to Publish

Thursday, September 179:00 AM PT3h

Live online, Thu Sep 17 2026, 9:00 am to 12:00 pm Pacific, three hours, $300, certificate of completion. Canva's AI 2.0 tools for people who make visual content: Magic Design, Magic Write, text-to-im…

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From Voice to Action: AI Notetaking That Works

Friday, September 189:00 AM PT1h 30m

AI Skill Booster, live online, Fri Sep 18 2026, 9:00 to 10:30 am Pacific, 90 minutes, $150. Capture meetings, site visits and spontaneous ideas with AI notetaking and voice dictation, then turn trans…

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Intro to Claude: Getting Things Done with Anthropic AI

Friday, September 181:00 PM PT3h

Live online, Fri Sep 18 2026, 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm Pacific (repeats Wed Oct 14), three hours, $325, certificate of completion. Claude as an everyday work partner: prompting well, Extended Thinking, Dee…

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Code Your Own AI: Generate Text, Images, and Audio with Python

Monday, September 219:00 AM PT3h

Live online, two three-hour sessions, Mon Sep 21 and Wed Sep 23 2026, 9:00 am to 12:00 pm Pacific, $450. Call OpenAI's APIs from Python: GPT models for generation, summarization and translation, DALL…

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Effectively Write and Manage Professional Emails and Leverage AI Tools

Tuesday, September 2210:00 AM PT2h

Live online, Tue Sep 22 2026, 10:00 am to 12:00 pm Pacific (repeats Wed Dec 2), two hours, $220, certificate of completion. Structure emails for faster replies, fix tone, and use the Stanford AI Play…

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Building Specialized AI Assistants with Claude Projects & Analysis

Monday, September 281:00 PM PT3h

Live online, two three-hour sessions, Mon Sep 28 and Wed Sep 30 2026, 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm Pacific, $450, Claude access provided. Build assistants that remember your context with Claude Projects (proje…

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Exploring AI Platforms: Choosing the Right Tool for the Task

Wednesday, September 3012:30 PM PT3h

Live online, Wed Sep 30 2026, 12:30 to 3:30 pm Pacific, three hours, $300, certificate of completion. Compares leading platforms such as OpenAI's GPT, Midjourney and DALL-E on strengths, limits and c…

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Power Up Your PowerPoint Presentations: Leveraging ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini Notebook (formerly NotebookLM) for Outstanding Next-Gen Presentations

Friday, October 21:00 PM PT3h

Live online, Fri Oct 2 2026, 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm Pacific, three hours, $350, certificate of completion. A comparative sprint: build the same deck in ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini Notebook, see where each…

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AI in Medical Education: From Foundations to Practice

Thursday, October 82:00 PM PT2h

Live online, four two-hour sessions on Thursdays Oct 8 to Oct 29 2026, 2:00 to 4:00 pm Pacific, 8 contact hours, $1,500. For medical educators, clinical faculty, simulation educators and education te…

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The Future is Now: AI Tools and Applications for Healthcare Professionals - Certificate Workshop

Monday, October 129:00 AM PT3h

Live online certificate workshop, four three-hour sessions Mon Oct 12 to Wed Oct 21 2026, 9:00 am to 12:00 pm Pacific, $1,200, 18 PDUs. For healthcare executives, administrators and clinical leaders…

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Design Thinking Reimagined: Creativity Meets AI

Tuesday, October 139:00 AM PT3h

Live online, two three-hour sessions, Tue Oct 13 and Tue Oct 20 2026, 9:00 am to 12:00 pm Pacific, $450. Design thinking with AI as a creative partner: reframing challenges, generating and synthesizi…

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AI for Building Engaging UI: Prototyping with Claude Artifacts & Tailwind

Tuesday, October 201:00 PM PT3h

Live online, two three-hour sessions, Tue Oct 20 and Thu Oct 22 2026, 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm Pacific, $450, 6 PDUs, Claude access provided. Prototype landing pages, dashboards and interactive components…

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Explore the Future of Clinical Education with AI-Powered Simulation: Advancing Clinical Reasoning with Clinical Mind AI

Wednesday, November 42:00 PM PT2h

Live online, three two-hour sessions on Wednesdays Nov 4, 11 and 18 2026, 2:00 to 4:00 pm Pacific, $850, 12 PDUs, with three months of access to Clinical Mind AI included. For healthcare educators: r…

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Innovative Storytelling Techniques and Technologies for Technical Professionals

Wednesday, December 21:00 PM PT2h 30m

Live online, Wed Dec 2 2026, 1:00 to 3:30 pm Pacific, $220, certificate of completion. Storytelling for engineers and analysts presenting to peers and executives: narrative models, audience psycholog…

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Programs

AI classes catalogue

Every upcoming AI class with date, format and price: 18 live online classes this term from $200 to $1,500, most of them three hours, all STAP eligible and open to non-Stanford learners.

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Certificate workshops

Paid multi-session workshops that end in a Stanford Technology Training certificate: AI-powered project management ($1,200, 18 hours), HR ($600), negotiation ($1,200), healthcare AI ($1,200), plus productivity and digital marketing.

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AI Skill Boosters

90-minute live online mini-sessions on one AI task each, $150: slide decks from Gemini Notebook (Sep 10 and Nov 5), Deep Research (Sep 11) and AI notetaking (Sep 18).

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Watch and Learn recordings

30+ self-paced ten-minute AI video lessons for beginners, from prompt anatomy to prompt injection. Paid: $150 for three months, $300 for six, $800 for a year, each with Tech Training credit toward a class.

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MicroLearning Academy

About 100 lessons of 15 minutes or less, 14 of them on AI (prompting mistakes, bias, privacy, how AI learns). Paid: $150 for three months, or $300 and $800 bundled with the E-Learning Library.

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Custom training request

A class shaped around your team's tools, projects and skill gaps, delivered at your location and time. Priced by scope; paid with STAP funds, a PTA, cost center or credit card. Submit the request form to start.

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Upcoming schedule

The full open-enrollment calendar across every category, with a calendar view and category filters; the Artificial Intelligence filter lists just the AI classes.

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Looking for the vendors' own courses?

OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and LinkedIn Learning publish their own training. We review and annotate it on the Vendor Sources page, with a Stanford note on each course.