AI Skills Academy

UVA Online Education and Digital Innovation is pleased to partner with CodeSignal to offer our first-ever AI Skills Academy from December 10, 2025 - January 10, 2026. By participating in this academy, you gain no-cost access to asynchronous AI learning and build in-demand, work-ready AI skills. This opportunity is open to current UVA students, staff, and faculty.

Registration closed on November 25. We encourage you to reach out to us at oedi@virginia.edu if interested in future up-skilling opportunities!

Anyone! The AI Skills Academy is open to any and all students, faculty, and staff who wish to take their AI expertise to the next level, no matter their level of experience. From AI ethics to chatbot creation and prompt engineering, there is no shortage of topics to explore.

The AI Skills Academy will be separated into two unique tracks for you to choose from based on your level of experience and comfort with AI tools. Each track contains ten courses and two assessments.

Track 1: AI Basics

This track is best for beginners who wish to learn more about AI basics such as prompt design, AI ethics, and how to integrate AI into their daily life.

Track 2: Business Applications of AI

This track is best for those with experience in engineering and/or software development, though it is open to all. Topics covered include RAG for LLMs, prompt engineering, and chatbot creation in business contexts.

More information on these tracks can be found on the CodeSignal GenAI Skills Academy homepage.

After a brief introduction webinar at 3 PM on December 1, 2025, OEDI's AI Skills Academy will officially kick off on December 10, 2025 and wrap up on January 10, 2026.

You will be asked to complete ~2 courses in your chosen track per week -- the equivalent of 2-3 hours of work. We ask that you aim to complete complete at least the first assessment in your track to ensure that you are able to emerge with new, actionable insights.

Overall, each track takes between 10-12 hours to complete. However, you are encouraged to create your own schedule and are not expected to work on holidays or during family or travel time.

We ask that you complete the following as part of the AI Skills Academy experience:

• A pre-project survey
• At least the first four courses and first assessment in your chosen track
• A post-project survey

If able, we also invite you to join us for a post-project retrospective in early January.

Participation in the AI Skills Academy will benefit both your personal and professional development, with perks including:

• deeper insights into how to integrate AI into both personal and professional work-streams, AI ethics and boundaries, and more
• work-ready, in-demand AI skills
• industry-recognized certificates to add to resumes and LinkedIn profiles
• For students: preparation for UVA's Summer 2026 AI Career Academy, which will put the skills you learn into practice

For faculty/staff: Please email oedi@virginia.edu with your preferred track by 11:59 PM on Monday, November 24.

For students: Please fill out the form below by 11:59 PM on Monday, November 24.