AI Literacy for All offered by the Digital Education Council (DEC) Online Course Now Available for Faculty and Staff
The University of Georgia has launched AI Literacy for All offered by the Digital Education Council (DEC), a new online course designed to provide students, faculty, and staff with a foundational understanding of artificial intelligence. This course emphasizes the responsible use and implications of generative AI in both academic and professional contexts. It is intended to serve as a shared baseline resource to support a consistent and informed understanding of generative AI across the university community.

The course is now available to faculty and staff as of Wednesday, June 3, 2026.

Access for students will be rolled out later this year, beginning Monday, August 10, 2026.
The training is delivered through a third-party platform provided by the Digital Education Council, a global network of institutions focused on advancing innovation in education. The course is structured as a four-hour introductory experience and includes interactive learning activities. Participants may complete the course at their own pace over multiple sessions.

How to access the course:

1. The course is available through the AI Hub under Resources and Tools or visit the link below:

   1. AI Literacy For All Course

2. To access the training, log in using your UGA email address (MyID@uga.edu) and password, following the same process used for UGAMail and Microsoft 365. You may be prompted to verify your login using UGA ArchPass (Duo).

3. Once logged in, you will be directed to the Digital Education Council platform, where the course and all related materials are hosted.
   
   

Additional information:
This training is highly encouraged but not required.
Upon completion, participants will have the option to download a certificate of completion and may add it to their list of micro-credentials on LinkedIn.
Additional training materials, guidance, and support resources are available on the AI Hub under Resources and Tools.
Faculty and staff who have questions about the course may contact the EITS AI Tools Team for assistance.

• AI Literacy For All Course

• UGA AI Hub

EITS is rolling out updates to how Zoom access is managed across the University of Georgia, and these changes may affect your account.

Beginning July 1, 2026, Zoom licenses will no longer be assigned based on total employee headcount. Instead, UGA will move to a knowledge-based FTE model. (Undergraduate and Graduate students, student workers, retirees, and affiliates will be impacted by the changes in licensing.)

This means Zoom licenses will be assigned to employees whose roles require regular use of Zoom for:

• Teaching

• Research

• Administrative work

Colleges and Administrative units will need to review their current Zoom users and remove accounts that do not meet this definition.

All licensed users will move to the Zoom Essentials platform. This includes the core features most people rely on, such as:

• Hosting meetings

• Hosting larger sessions

• Running webinars

For most licensed users, there should be little to no change in functionality.

If you are no longer assigned a Zoom license, there are a few important impacts to be aware of:

Your scheduled meetings will be deleted
Any meetings you created in Zoom will be removed once your license is revoked. If you still need them, recreate them in Microsoft Teams or transfer ownership to another licensed user before July 1.

Download your recordings
Be sure to save any Zoom recordings you want to keep ahead of the transition.

You can still attend meetings
Even without a license, you can continue to join Zoom meetings hosted by others.

To avoid disruptions, units will begin preparing:

• Reviewing current Zoom account assignments

• Identifying which roles qualify under the knowledge-based FTE model

• Notifying impacted users early

• Helping users transition meetings or download recordings

For questions or assistance, contact EITS Contracts and Licensing.

The next open enrollment period for buying into the AI Tools program will be from June 8 - 29. Individuals may choose to opt-in during this period by filling out the following Request Form. This will ensure that the college can submit the requests to EITS in preparation for the campus-wide July 1st deadline.  

• Franklin College AI Tool Consolidated Order Request Form (https://forms.office.com/r/nJp2gwfGbs )

• Franklin College Deadline: June 29th

• You will need to select the desired products, provide your name, UGA email address, and a OneSource Chartstring for billing purposes.

  • Work with your Franklin College FAST representative to identify an appropriate Chartstring. A valid and complete chartstring or speedtype are required for participation.

EITS has launched a new AI Tools purchasing program. This program is designed to:

• Streamline procurement by consolidating license requests across colleges.

• Eliminate individual purchasing and the need for separate data security (CESS) reviews.

• Provide three purchase windows per year (before each semester. (May, July, December).

• Offer an annual opt-out date for discontinuing licenses.

The program includes paid versions of (this does NOT include API tokens or access):

• Google Gemini

• Microsoft Copilot

• ** Anthropic Claude

  • Will not available again this period due to contract re-negotiations. It should be available during the next enrollment period in November.

• OpenAI ChatGPT

These buy-in services provide expanded features beyond the free versions currently available on campus, offered on a cost-recovery basis. See our Guide to Paid vs Free Generative AI Tools

• EITS Schedule

  • May 1, to support summer on-boarding 

  • July 1, to support fall on-boarding 

  • December 1, to support spring on-boarding and discontinuation deadlines

See our Guide to Paid vs Free Generative AI Tools for details on feature differences and the EITS information on the AI Tools Licensing Purchasing Program. If you need any assistance, please reach out to the Franklin OIT Helpdesk.