Support exploration
Generate useful pathways and questions without making decisions for students.
School counselors and student-support teams
AI for School Counselors
Use AI to support career and scholarship exploration while protecting student privacy and counselor judgment.
PT36M · Beginner to intermediate
Start freeWhat you will learn
- Use AI to broaden career and scholarship exploration without fabricating options.
- Keep student data out of unsafe prompts and tools.
- Verify eligibility, deadlines, and recommendations using authoritative sources.
Course outline
Protect student privacy
Apply data-minimization and FERPA-aware practices to AI-assisted work.
Verify every opportunity
Confirm programs, scholarships, requirements, and deadlines at the source.
OPEN LESSON
Open lesson: Support exploration
Before automating a task, define the result you need and the evidence that would make it trustworthy. In this course, the goal is: Create a FERPA-conscious student-support workflow with verified resources and appropriate human review. AI can accelerate a draft, comparison, or exploration, but it does not know your policies, full context, or the cost of being wrong. Begin with a low-risk case and keep the earlier version so you can compare, explain, and reverse the decision.
- Define the deliverable and an observable quality criterion: Use AI to broaden career and scholarship exploration without fabricating options.
- Set context, allowed data, and human review before generating: Keep student data out of unsafe prompts and tools.
- Check the output and document the final decision: Verify eligibility, deadlines, and recommendations using authoritative sources.
Responsible authorVidAcademia Editorial Team
ReviewVidAcademia Learning Quality
MethodOutcome-first design, primary-source review, guided practice, and a human-verified final decision.
SOURCES AND EVIDENCE
Learn with references you can verify.
We select official sources and explain what each supports.
U.S. Department of Education · Current regulation
FERPA — 34 CFR Part 99
FERPA protects education records and defines personally identifiable information to include direct and linkable indirect identifiers.
UNESCO · 2023
Guidance for generative AI in education and research
UNESCO highlights learner privacy, human agency, and age-appropriate use as core institutional responsibilities.