October starts with Google Drive, then there are four stops on the road to higher AI learning: Basics, Working Smarter (new class!), Advanced Prompting, and Google Gems.
October 2026 Quick Bytes
| Date | Course Name |
| Tuesday, October 6 from 3 – 4 pm | Google Drive – Basics Master the essentials of Google Drive and Google Drive for Desktop to store your files securely and access them with ease. Discover built-in tools that take the confusion out of organizing, managing, and sharing your files and folders. You will learn how to navigate Google My Drive, Google Shared Drives, Google Shared with Me, and the handy Google P: Drive. This class is great for beginners or anyone looking to build confidence with Google Drive. |
| Friday, October 9 from 12 – 1 pm | AI Prompting: Crafting Conversations Are you curious about AI and how it can help you? Learn about working with the AI Large Language Models (LLM’s like Gemini, ChatGPT, and Claude) to brainstorm, summarize, explain topics, find information on the web, and respond to complex prompts. Come to this session where you will see a demonstration and get hands-on practice in AI Prompting! |
| Friday, October 16 from 12 – 1 pm | Working Smarter with AI AI can save you real time, but only if you know how to use it well. In this class, we’ll review the 5 Pillars, the basic habits that make AI work for you instead of against you, creating standard documents like knowledgebase articles, standard operating procedures, and more! We’ll also spend hands-on time in Spreadsheets, covering how to make charts and graphs, clean up messy data, build formulas, turn numbers into a report, and build a spreadsheet from nothing. |
| Friday, October 23 from 12 – 1 pm | Advanced AI Prompting Elevate your prompt engineering skills with this focus on advanced skills designed to teach you five distinct prompting styles. You will move beyond simple queries to master the RODE framework for structured role-based output and the Ask Gemini dialogue method for iterative refinement, while also learning industry standards like Chain-of-Thought, Few-Shot, and Prompt Chaining. After briefly reviewing these AI prompt engineering skills, there will be dedicated time for hands-on practice. |
| Friday, October 30 from 12 – 1 pm | Google Gems Discover how to transform your existing documents into a personalized AI assistant using Google Gems. In this practical, one-hour course, you will learn how to take a knowledge base you have already created—such as FAQs, training manuals, student knowledge, or project files—and use it to build a custom AI Assistant tailored to your specific needs. We will cover how to properly connect your reference materials, write clear instructions to guide the AI’s persona and behavior, and test your Gem to ensure it delivers accurate, context-specific responses. By the end of this session, you will know how to build a private, specialized AI assistant that can instantly answer questions, draft content, or analyze data based strictly on your own information. |
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