This is a 50-minute, hands-on introduction to the AI tools UMD already provides for staff. You’ll work at a table with colleagues and use TerpAI to finish a realistic work task, such as answering a pile of student emails, cleaning up meeting notes or tidying a purchase log. You’ll leave with a simple prompting method, a clear sense of what data is safe to use, and one task to try back at your office. No experience is needed.
Objectives:
By the end of the workshop, you will be able to:
- Log in to TerpAI with your UMD credentials and start a chat.
- Choose the right UMD AI tool for a given task.
- Classify work data as Level 1–4 and know which tools each level is allowed in.
- Write a four-part prompt (Role, Task, Context, Format) and improve the result with follow-up prompts.
- Name one specific task from your own job to try with AI in the next week.
Target Audience:
Staff
Lab Responsible:
AI Makerspace
Topics Covered:
- UMD’s AI toolbox UMD data classification:
- What can and can’t go into AI tools
- UMD’s Generative AI Guidelines: five rules for using AI at work
- The R-T-C-F prompt formula and follow-up prompting
- Hands-on table challenge: five scenarios for advising, admin support, finance and HR, communications, and facilities and IT
- Checking AI output for accuracy and tone, and when to disclose AI use
- Where to get help: UMD resources,
- AI Makerspace drop-in hours and future workshops
Materials Needed:
Attendees:
- An active UMD Directory ID and password, with Duo, for logging in to TerpAI.
- A laptop is optional: each table shares a computer and display, but you can follow along on your own.
- Everything else is provided.
Provided at the session:
- Scenario cards with sample data files (all fictional)
- A two-page take-home cheat sheet
- The workshop questionnaire, via QR code
Resources:
Duration:
50 minutes
Presentation File:
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