GAISB AI Essentials™
The foundation credential: practical AI literacy, responsible-use habits, and a shared vocabulary across any organization. This page is your complete delivery pack: what students earn, how the course runs, the instructor kit, and your partner economics.
The credential in one table
| Credential | GAISB AI Essentials™ — Level 1, foundational AI literacy |
|---|---|
| Exam | AIE-101 · 30 questions · 90 minutes · 75% to pass · delivered at exams.gaisb.org |
| Applied work | Light applied capstone — "Personal AI Assistant Brief" — submitted for credential issuance |
| Standard tuition | $495 candidate-facing · Exam voucher $135 |
| Partner rate | Available at your partner rate in the ATP Portal — see Ordering. |
| Registry | Every pass recorded at registry.gaisb.org with a LinkedIn-ready badge |
Your buyers for this level
The widest market of the three: anyone who needs to work confidently and responsibly with AI. Easiest to fill cohorts, strongest for corporate site-licenses.
- ▪ Working professionals adopting AI in their role
- ▪ Whole-team / whole-company AI upskilling (site licenses)
- ▪ Public-sector and nonprofit workforce readiness
- ▪ Students and career-changers building AI fluency
Tangible outcomes
- ✓ A working command of the RTCF prompting framework
- ✓ The ability to evaluate an AI output for quality and risk
- ✓ One real personal AI workflow, built and documented
- ✓ Responsible-use judgment: privacy, accuracy, oversight
- ✓ A verifiable GAISB credential + LinkedIn badge
Five modules, one capstone, one assessment
Self-paced inside Prompt Atlas. Runtime is deliberately tight so corporate cohorts can complete in a single focused session or across a lunch-and-learn series.
| # | Module | What it builds |
|---|---|---|
| 0 | Orientation — Why AI literacy matters | Frames the credential and the standard behind it. |
| 1 | AI Demystified | What AI is and isn't — a clear mental model, no hype. |
| 2 | How Modern AI Works | Models, tokens, training, and why outputs vary. |
| 3 | Prompting Fundamentals | The RTCF framework — Role, Task, Context, Format. |
| 4 | Everyday AI Workflows | Applying AI to real tasks the student already does. |
| 5 | Responsible AI Use | Privacy, accuracy, bias, and human oversight. |
| ★ | Capstone — Personal AI Assistant Brief | Design one real AI workflow and document it. Required for issuance. |
Everything you teach from
Official, co-brandable delivery assets. Teach from these exactly. Your signature on a completion certificate is GAISB's brand in the market.
AI Essentials — Instructor Playbook
The operating manual: course model, Prompt Atlas setup, credential issuance workflow, and capstone grading.
AIS-101 — The Age of AI (slides)
The official Essentials deck: teach-ready, co-brandable.
Four Labs — Facilitator Guide
Run the four official Essentials labs: setup, timing, checkpoints, troubleshooting.
Capstone — Personal AI Assistant Brief
The capstone assignment and grading criteria for credential issuance.
Setup Guide (PDF)
Stand up the course space and student onboarding, step by step.
How the seat works
Each Program Seat is a per-student license delivered inside Prompt Atlas: the Self-Guided Course, the Exam Prep Intensive, GAISB AI Essentials Labs (30 days), the recorded library, Certification Support, capstone submission, and Global Registry Listing & Digital Badge with a verifiable badge. You add the live cohort and lab facilitation.
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