Professional Development Course • 1.0 CEU
When AI Enters the Classroom
A practical course for educators navigating student AI use, academic integrity, and the new questions showing up in real classrooms.
AI is already part of the classroom. The challenge for schools is no longer deciding whether it will appear. It is knowing how to respond when it does.
What happens when student work suddenly sounds different? How much can an AI detector really tell you? What counts as acceptable assistance? When does support become substitution? How should teachers grade the work, talk with the student, communicate with families, and document a decision that may later be reviewed?
When AI Enters the Classroom gives educators a clear, human-centered system for answering those questions without relying on fear, guesswork, or detector scores alone.
10 hours • Self-paced • Practical tools • Certificate of Completion
What You’ll Learn
Through realistic classroom cases and practical tools, the course shows educators how to:
- Define acceptable AI use before an assignment begins
- Recognize the difference between suspicion, evidence, and a defensible finding
- Understand what AI-writing detectors can and cannot tell you
- Use the EVIDENCE Response Protocol when misuse is suspected
- Redesign assignments with the AUTHENTIC Framework so student thinking remains visible
- Make fair decisions about grading, consequences, and recovery
- Conduct difficult conversations with students and families
- Build consistent AI expectations across a department or school
Built for Real Educators and Real Situations
This is not a course about becoming an AI expert.
It is professional learning for the teacher, administrator, instructional coach, or school leader who needs to know:
“What do I actually do when this happens?”
You’ll work through classroom scenarios, analyze evidence, make decisions, redesign an assignment, practice communication, and leave with resources you can use immediately.
How the Course Works
10 hours • Self-paced • Online • 1.0 CEU recommended
Complete the course on your own schedule through:
- 10 focused modules
- Interactive classroom scenarios
- Practical activities
- Downloadable educator tools
- Module knowledge checks
- A final assessment
- Implementation planning
Participants who successfully complete all required activities and assessments receive a Certificate of Completion documenting 10 professional learning hours and a recommended 1.0 CEU.
Recommended for 1.0 CEU based on 10 verified professional learning hours. Final renewal-credit approval and classification are determined by the educator’s employing school, district, charter school, public school unit, or licensing authority.
Who This Course Is For
Grades 6–12 Teachers
Principals and Assistant Principals
Instructional Coaches
Curriculum Leaders
Charter School Leaders
Department Chairs
Educators assigning written work
School teams developing AI guidance
Course Frameworks
Four-Level AI Use Continuum
Defines acceptable AI use before work begins so students and teachers know what is permitted, what is prohibited, and what must be disclosed.
EVIDENCE Response Protocol
Provides a structured process for investigating suspected misuse, documenting evidence, hearing the student’s explanation, and selecting a fair response.
AUTHENTIC Assignment Design Framework
Helps educators redesign assignments so student thinking remains visible through course-specific evidence, checkpoints, conferences, verification, and recovery pathways.
What’s Included
- 10 complete modules
- 10 professional learning hours
- Interactive scenarios
- Knowledge checks
- Final assessment
- Downloadable classroom and school resources
- EVIDENCE Protocol Card
- AUTHENTIC Assignment Redesign Template
- Four-Level Continuum Classroom Poster
- Process Evidence Checklist
- Consequence & Restoration Guide
- Family Communication Templates
- Faculty Calibration Case Set
- Schoolwide Implementation Planner
- Course Action Plan
- Certificate of Completion
Be Ready Before the Next AI Question Becomes a Classroom Crisis
Build a fair, practical, and defensible approach to student AI use before the next disputed assignment, parent conversation, or schoolwide policy question.