# Higher Education Courses

> Source: https://ibl.ai/courses/higher-education
> Last updated: 2026-11-14

**Higher Education courses from ibl.ai. Running a campus with AI agents: FERPA, accreditation and policy, advising, enrollment and financial aid, research administration, assessment redesign, faculty AI literacy, degree audit, transfer credit, procurement and total cost of ownership.**

Subjects: Academic Affairs · Teaching & Learning · Compliance · Enrollment · Information Technology · Registrar · Student Success · Accreditation · Career Development · Digital Citizenship · Enrollment Management · Financial Aid · Financial Literacy · Governance · Higher Education · Human Resources · Institutional Research · International · IT & Integration · Knowledge & Policy · Procurement · Research · Strategy & Finance · Student Privacy · Student Services · Workforce.

Other catalogs: [Cybersecurity](https://ibl.ai/courses/cybersecurity).

## Courses

### [ADA Title II Digital Accessibility for Course Content: The 2027 Deadline](https://ibl.ai/courses/higher-education/ada-title-ii-course-accessibility)

ADA Title II web accessibility for course content: the 2027 and 2028 deadlines, WCAG 2.1 AA, five exceptions, and AI-assisted remediation with human QA.

Free · Self-paced, online · 10 to 12 hours · 3 hours per week · Intermediate · English · Compliance

### [AI Academic Advising at Scale: Caseload Triage, Proactive Outreach and Human Handoffs](https://ibl.ai/courses/higher-education/ai-academic-advising-caseload-management)

A practitioner course on academic advising caseload management: triage caseloads, run the proactive outreach RCTs support, and design human handoffs.

Free · Self-paced, online · 12 to 14 hours · 3 hours per week · Intermediate · English · Student Success

### [AI Agents Inside the Trusted Research Environment: Sandboxed Code Execution on NIH, CUI and DUA-Governed Data](https://ibl.ai/courses/higher-education/ai-agents-trusted-research-environment)

AI agents inside a trusted research environment: NIH 800-171 attestation, generative AI notice, CMMC status, SATRE controls and sandboxed code on data.

Free · Self-paced, online · 12 to 14 hours · 3 hours per week · Intermediate · English · Research

### [AI for the Accreditation Self-Study: Evidence Inventories, Assurance Arguments and Compliance Certifications](https://ibl.ai/courses/higher-education/ai-accreditation-self-study)

Run an accreditation self study with AI: evidence inventories mapped to HLC, MSCHE, SACSCOC, WSCUC and NECHE standards, cited drafts, human attestation.

Free · Self-paced, online · 10 to 12 hours · 3 hours per week · Intermediate · English · Accreditation

### [AI in Enrollment Management: Yield, Summer Melt and Admit-to-Enroll Outreach](https://ibl.ai/courses/higher-education/ai-enrollment-yield-and-summer-melt)

Measure yield, cut summer melt and run admit-to-enroll outreach with AI. Built on Georgia State's RCTs, GAO's aid-offer audit and NACAC's 2026 guide.

Free · Self-paced, online · 10 to 12 hours · 3 hours per week · Intermediate · English · Enrollment

### [AI Literacy For Faculty](https://ibl.ai/courses/higher-education/cs-ai-literacy)

Every parent wants the best for their children, including love, happiness and…lots of money. When you hear how many millions of dollars top athletes such as LeBron James and Phil Mickelson make every year, it’s hard not to hope your own son or daughter might also excel in a sport at that level, especially if they’ve already demonstrated a love of and a talent for one game or another. Even if your child has never exhibited a propensity for athletics, maybe you just wish to gently nudge him or her outside, away from the TV screen, the video game console, or the smart phone.

Free · Online · English

### [AI Literacy for Recruitment](https://ibl.ai/courses/higher-education/ailr101)

The algorithm already reads your candidates' résumés. Learn how it thinks, where it fails, and how to make AI your recruiting superpower, in a self-paced, story-driven course.

Free · Self-paced, online · 3 weeks · 1.5 hours per week · Beginner · English · Human Resources

### [AI Tutoring Research: What the RCTs Show and How to Deploy a Tutor That Improves Learning](https://ibl.ai/courses/higher-education/ai-tutoring-research-what-rcts-show)

Read the AI tutoring RCTs properly: Harvard's two-lesson physics study, the PNAS guardrails trial, human-AI hybrids, dosage. Then run your own evaluation.

Free · Self-paced, online · 10 to 12 hours · 3 hours per week · Intermediate · English · Teaching & Learning

### [Assessment Redesign for Generative AI: Program-Level Assurance of Learning](https://ibl.ai/courses/higher-education/assessment-redesign-for-generative-ai)

Assessment redesign for generative AI at program level: the two-lane model, TEQSA's three pathways, the AI Assessment Scale, interactive orals, detectors.

Free · Self-paced, online · 11 to 13 hours · 3 hours per week · Intermediate · English · Teaching & Learning

### [Auditing Early-Alert and Predictive Analytics in Higher Education: Bias Testing, FERPA Boundaries and Human Review Before Anyone Gets Flagged](https://ibl.ai/courses/higher-education/early-alert-predictive-analytics-audit)

Audit early-alert and predictive analytics in higher education: subgroup error rates, the FERPA school-official test, alert wording and human review.

Free · Self-paced, online · 10 to 12 hours · 3 hours per week · Intermediate · English · Student Success

### [Before You Launch an Agent: Evaluation Sets, Graders and Go/No-Go Criteria](https://ibl.ai/courses/higher-education/evaluating-campus-agents-before-launch)

A self-paced, intermediate course for campus IT, teaching and learning, student services and institutional research leaders on testing a student-facing AI agent before launch: evaluation sets built from real question types, model graders checked against human review, go/no-go thresholds set with the business owner, and regression tests and monitoring after launch, taught from the NIST AI RMF and the evaluation research.

Free · Self-paced, online · 8 to 10 hours · 2.5 hours per week · Intermediate · English · Information Technology

### [Bringing Back Stopped-Out Students: Finding, Reaching and Re-Enrolling the Some College, No Credential Population](https://ibl.ai/courses/higher-education/re-enrolling-stopped-out-students)

An intermediate, self-paced playbook for enrollment, student success, registrar and bursar leaders: find stopped-out students in your own records, segment them, remove holds and transcript barriers within federal and state rules, run outreach that respects consent and opt-outs, re-admit with a degree map and measure the results.

Free · Self-paced, online · 8 to 10 hours · 2.5 hours per week · Intermediate · English · Enrollment Management

### [Campus AI Total Cost of Ownership: ChatGPT Edu, Gemini and Copilot Pricing vs Owned Platforms](https://ibl.ai/courses/higher-education/campus-ai-total-cost-of-ownership)

A vendor-neutral course on ChatGPT Edu pricing, Gemini, Copilot and owned platforms: build a three-year campus AI TCO model from public contracts.

Free · Self-paced, online · 10 to 12 hours · 3 hours per week · Intermediate · English · Strategy & Finance

### [Career Readiness: From Campus to First Job](https://ibl.ai/courses/higher-education/career101)

Stop guessing what employers want. Learn to write like a pro, turn class projects into hire-me stories, ace interviews and crush your first 90 days — told through real stories of students who've been exactly where you are.

Free · Self-paced, online · 1 hour per week · Beginner · English · Career Development

### [Connecting SIS, LMS and CRM to AI Agents with MCP](https://ibl.ai/courses/higher-education/sis-lms-crm-integration-with-mcp)

Student information system integration for AI agents: wrap Banner, Canvas and Slate as MCP servers, scope access by FERPA role, and audit every call.

Free · Self-paced, online · 14 to 16 hours · 3 hours per week · Intermediate · English · IT & Integration

### [Credit for Prior Learning at Scale: Portfolio Assessment, Crosswalks and Comprehensive Learner Records](https://ibl.ai/courses/higher-education/credit-for-prior-learning-at-scale)

A practitioner course on credit for prior learning for institutions: evidence intake, AI crosswalks, faculty rubric assessment and CLR 2.0 records.

Free · Self-paced, online · 12 to 14 hours · 3 hours per week · Intermediate · English · Academic Affairs

### [Degree Audit Automation: Encoding Your Catalog as Rules an Agent Can Run](https://ibl.ai/courses/higher-education/degree-audit-automation)

A practitioner course on degree audit software: model requirements, catalog years and exceptions as rules, then run what-if audits with an AI agent.

Free · Self-paced, online · 12 to 14 hours · 3 hours per week · Intermediate · English · Registrar

### [Designing a Faculty AI Training Program: Frameworks, Tiers and Evaluation](https://ibl.ai/courses/higher-education/faculty-ai-training-program-design)

Design a faculty AI training program: map competencies to EDUCAUSE, UNESCO and DOL frameworks, tier it, govern it with faculty and evaluate it.

Free · Self-paced, online · 10 to 12 hours · 3 hours per week · Intermediate · English · Teaching & Learning

### [Designing and Running a Direct Admissions Program](https://ibl.ai/courses/higher-education/direct-admissions-program)

Design and run a direct admissions program: eligibility rules, data, offer messaging, yield and evaluation, grounded in Idaho, Common App and RCT evidence.

Free · Self-paced, online · 10 to 12 hours · 3 hours per week · Intermediate · English · Enrollment

### [Digital Citizenship: Staying Smart & Safe Online](https://ibl.ai/courses/higher-education/digcit101)

Stories, not lectures. Learn to guard your privacy, spot fake news and scams, own your digital footprint, and build online habits you actually feel good about. Self-paced, about an hour total.

Free · Self-paced, online · About 1 hour, self-paced · 1 hour per week · Beginner · English · Digital Citizenship

### [Evaluating and Buying Campus AI: HECVAT 4, FERPA Contract Terms and Exit Rights](https://ibl.ai/courses/higher-education/ai-vendor-evaluation-procurement-higher-ed)

An ai procurement checklist for higher ed: HECVAT 4 AI tab, FERPA school-official contract terms, no-training clauses, exit rights and a 90-day ROI gate.

Free · Self-paced, online · 10 to 12 hours · 3 hours per week · Intermediate · English · Procurement

### [FERPA and AI: The School-Official Exception, Vendor Contracts and Agent Access to Student Records](https://ibl.ai/courses/higher-education/ferpa-and-ai-school-official-exception)

FERPA and AI for privacy officers and registrars: the three school-official conditions in 34 CFR 99.31, the 99.33 use limit, vendor terms and agent access.

Free · Self-paced, online · 9 to 11 hours · 3 hours per week · Intermediate · English · Compliance

### [FERPA Basics for Faculty and Staff](https://ibl.ai/courses/higher-education/ferpa-basics)

A foundational, self-paced course on FERPA for college and university faculty and staff: what counts as an education record, the rights that belong to students, and when information may be disclosed, taught from the statute, 34 CFR Part 99 and Department of Education guidance.

Free · Self-paced, online · 6 to 8 hours · 2 hours per week · Beginner · English · Student Privacy

### [FERPA-Compliant AI: Deploying Agents on Student Data](https://ibl.ai/courses/higher-education/he1)

FERPA does not ban AI on student records - it governs who may see them. ibl.ai runs advising and enrollment agents against your SIS and LMS under the school official exception, self-hosted inside your own perimeter, where you own all the code and the data. No third-party vendor ever receives an education record, so the disclosure question never arises.

Free · Online · English · Higher Education

### [Financial Aid Operations with AI: Verification, SAP Appeals and Professional Judgment](https://ibl.ai/courses/higher-education/financial-aid-operations-with-ai)

Run the financial aid verification process, SAP appeals and professional judgment with AI assisting and humans deciding. Built on the 2026-27 FSA Handbook.

Free · Self-paced, online · 12 to 14 hours · 3 hours per week · Intermediate · English · Financial Aid

### [Financial Management: Money for adolescents](https://ibl.ai/courses/higher-education/money101)

A self-paced money course for middle schoolers: where money really comes from, how to stop it disappearing, and how to make small, legal, smart investments that grow while you sleep.

Free · Self-paced, online · 2 hours per week · Beginner · English · Financial Literacy

### [From FAQ Bot to Service Agent: 24/7 One-Stop and IT Service Desk Agents That Resolve, Not Just Deflect](https://ibl.ai/courses/higher-education/ai-student-services-agents)

AI for student services that resolves instead of deflecting: design one-stop and IT help desk agents with grounded answers, actions, handoff and metrics.

Free · Self-paced, online · 10 to 12 hours · 3 hours per week · Intermediate · English · Student Services

### [IPEDS, ACTS and Federal Reporting for Institutional Research with AI](https://ibl.ai/courses/higher-education/ipeds-federal-reporting-with-ai)

Assemble IPEDS and ACTS files reproducibly: field crosswalks, deadlines, the ACTS injunction status and the 2027 earnings rule, with audited AI agents.

Free · Self-paced, online · 12 to 14 hours · 3 hours per week · Intermediate · English · Institutional Research

### [Launching Workforce Pell Programs: Eligibility, Governor Approval and Accountability for Institutions](https://ibl.ai/courses/higher-education/workforce-pell-program-launch)

Workforce Pell for institutions: the 8 to 15 week and 150 to 599 clock hour gates, governor approval, 70% completion and placement, value-added earnings.

Free · Self-paced, online · 12 to 14 hours · 3 hours per week · Intermediate · English · Workforce

### [Policy Answers Staff Can Trust: Permission-Aware AI Search over Policies, Handbooks and Catalogs](https://ibl.ai/courses/higher-education/rag-on-institutional-knowledge)

Run a policy chatbot staff can trust: authoritative sources, permission-aware retrieval, faithfulness and recall scores, and decline-and-route rules.

Free · Self-paced, online · 10 to 12 hours · 3 hours per week · Intermediate · English · Knowledge & Policy

### [Running the International Student Office with AI Agents: SEVIS Deadlines, OPT Reporting and Policy Watch](https://ibl.ai/courses/higher-education/international-student-office-sevis-operations)

A practitioner course on SEVIS reporting requirements: track the 30, 21 and 10-day deadlines and OPT reporting with AI agents that draft; the DSO decides.

Free · Self-paced, online · 10 to 12 hours · 3 hours per week · Intermediate · English · International

### [Securing Campus AI Agents: Prompt Injection, Tool Permissions and Data Leaks](https://ibl.ai/courses/higher-education/securing-campus-ai-agents)

A hands-on, self-paced course for campus IT and security teams on the threats specific to tool-using AI agents: prompt injection, over-broad tools and data leaks. Attack a sandboxed sample agent with synthetic records, fix each finding, and write a pre-launch threat model, launch checklist and incident playbook, taught from OWASP, NIST and MITRE ATLAS.

Free · Self-paced, online · 10 to 12 hours · 3 hours per week · Intermediate · English · Information Technology

### [Transfer Credit Evaluation and Articulation with AI](https://ibl.ai/courses/higher-education/ai-transfer-credit-evaluation)

Build a course equivalency database, model articulation as a graph, and run AI-assisted transfer credit evaluation with a human making every decision.

Free · Self-paced, online · 12 to 15 hours · 3 hours per week · Intermediate · English · Registrar

### [Who Owns the AI Tutor? Faculty Intellectual Property, Publisher Licenses and Copyright](https://ibl.ai/courses/higher-education/faculty-ip-and-ai-tutors)

An intermediate, self-paced course for academic leaders, counsel, faculty senates, librarians and instructional designers on who owns course materials and the AI tutors built from them, what publisher licenses allow, what the Copyright Office and the courts have concluded about AI, and how to write a campus policy, taught from the Copyright Act, Copyright Office reports, court opinions, AAUP statements and published university policies.

Free · Self-paced, online · 7 to 9 hours · 2 hours per week · Intermediate · English · Academic Affairs

### [Will Your Programs Pass? The New Federal Earnings Test and Academic Portfolio Review](https://ibl.ai/courses/higher-education/program-earnings-accountability)

A self-paced course for provosts, deans, institutional research directors and CFOs on the program-level earnings test in Public Law 119-21: which programs it covers, how to find your programs' public earnings data and flag those at risk, what losing Direct Loans would mean, and how to run a defensible academic portfolio review.

Free · Self-paced, online · 8 to 10 hours · 2.5 hours per week · Intermediate · English · Academic Affairs

### [Writing a University AI Policy Accreditors Will Accept: SACSCOC, MSCHE, WSCUC and NIST AI RMF](https://ibl.ai/courses/higher-education/university-ai-policy-and-accreditation)

Write a university AI policy accreditors will accept: SACSCOC, MSCHE and WSCUC expectations, a NIST AI RMF committee charter and shared governance.

Free · Self-paced, online · 12 to 14 hours · 3 hours per week · Intermediate · English · Governance

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