In September 2023, UCSF launched GenAI Office Hours, led by Academic Research Services and the UCSF Versa Tiger Team. This bi-weekly series fosters community, knowledge sharing, and explores AI applications within UCSF’s diverse workflows. Presenters from the community generously share their experiences and use cases with GenAI tools. Participants span a broad spectrum of roles, including professors, leadership, IT support staff, researchers, educators, and clinical practitioners.

Let's face it, getting tech updates to college students can feel like a superhero mission! This poster aims to present actionable strategies for effectively communicating technology and service changes to college students. It acknowledges the difficulties in reaching a tech-savvy but diverse student body and emphasizes the importance of clear, concise, and relevant messaging. The poster will also recommend using informal, fun language, with an example of a superhero theme, to engage students in short but meaningful interactions and capture their attention, making ITS seem less mysterious.

Tired of the time-consuming process of crafting user stories? In this session, we'll explore how AI can revolutionize your user story development. We'll delve into real-world examples, like the "eFile Plus" project, where AI was successfully used to generate user stories, resulting in increased efficiency and improved project outcomes.

When Turnitin’s AI Writing Detection Tool launched in Spring 2023, staff from UC Berkeley’s Research, Teaching, and Learning (RTL) department recognized the need for careful exploration of the tool to understand instructor concerns around academic integrity, accuracy, equity, privacy, student access, and actionability. In collaboration with the Center for Teaching and Learning and the Center for Student Conduct, RTL invited instructors to participate in an opt-in pilot from Fall 2023 – Spring 2025.

This session will showcase how our department identifies, explores, and evaluates emerging technologies that support effective teaching and learning. Our department regularly pilots academic technology tools hosted by third-party vendors, so we developed a comprehensive guide to streamline and navigate through the piloting process. Join us as we walk through the guide, covering key aspects such as establishing scope, developing timelines and milestones, identifying risks and mitigations, creating a communications plan, conducting assessments, and defining success metrics.

The UCSF-SFDPH DeID OMOP database integrates EHR data from UCSF Health and SFDPH. UCSF Health primarily serves insured patients, while SFDPH provides accessible healthcare regardless of insurance or immigration status. This integration enhances research in population health and health equity by offering a unified patient database with broad demographic and socioeconomic representation. Our team developed detailed methodologies and transparent data mapping processes, including a global patient identifier and extension tables for health system data differentiation.

This session will go over the strengths/weaknesses of three popular form-building platforms: MachForm, Qualtrics, and DocuSign's Powerform. The session will explain and demonstrate the platforms, common use-case scenarios for each, and why some should be used over others (for inherent reasons, as well as user/security-requirement reasons).

Join us as we showcase our solution for creating a user-friendly interface to track operational tasks. The Campus Application and Data Security team is dedicated to providing services that ensure consistency, data integrity, and compliance with our Service Level Agreements. To achieve this, we have utilized Smartsheets to inventory all tasks in a centralized location. This approach enables us to generate metrics and monitor resource capacity.

Spark is a pioneering homegrown web app that embraces an innovative approach to student success technology – one that empowers students with personalized behavioral analytics to make informed decisions about attaining their personal goals while improving access to campus services through data-driven targeting. This session will argue for the necessity of this approach in serving today's students at scale and fulfilling the promise of a university degree.

Making a video doesn't have to be hard! Proper planning and an understanding of which tools to use will help to make the creation process much easier. This session will illustrate the planning process of making a video as well as creating a script, providing software suggestions and providing access to example videos.