Google AI Education Accelerator

Learn how to access the Google AI Education Accelerator and begin your AI journey.

Google AI for Education Accelerator Member

As we continue to navigate the intersection of technology and pedagogy, Houston City College is committed to providing you with tools that streamline administrative tasks and open new avenues for teaching and student engagement.

HCC is now part of the Google AI for Education Accelerator, which gives our faculty, staff, students, trustees, and alumni access to AI tools like Gemini and Gemini Notebook that are built with enterprise-grade data protections, ensuring your intellectual property and institutional data remain secure.

Quick-start Guide

Learn how to access the Google AI Education Accelerator and begin your AI journey.

  3. Set Up Your Google AI Tools

    Create your Gemini and Gemini Notebook account by logging in with your hccs.edu email at sso.hccs.edu or directly at Gemini and Gemini Notebook. 

    Login with SSO

  4. Join a Tech Talk

    Attend a Tech Talk for tips on getting started, an intro to the Google AI Educator Series lessons, and open Q&A with IT and Google experts.

    Sessions will be held 9/15, 9/22, and 9/29 at 2pm.

    Register for an upcoming virtual session

  5. Build Your AI Skills

    Get started with “snackable and stackable” short lessons from the Google AI Educator Series built with ISTE, and Grow with Google’s AI for Educators course for deeper pedagogical strategies.

  7. Become an AI Champion

    To boldly dive in...

    • Enter our Google AI Educator Series Challenge you don’t want to miss out on growing your AI skillset, confidence, and a chance to win a laptop and more. Bragging rights and an AI Champions pin included.
    • Apply to be your campus, workforce, or academic program AI Ambassador, taking a leadership role to drive AI adoption within your community and be eligible for advanced training, stipends, and the opportunity to be a change agent. Add hyperlink

How you can get AI to work for you

Gemini is designed to act as a high-level assistant, helping you focus on the work that matters most. And Gemini Notebook is a source-grounded research assistant. By uploading your own PDFs, notes, policies, or manuscripts, you create a “grounded” AI that:

  • Only answers questions based on the specific documents you provide.
  • Provides citations and direct links to the source text within your documents.
  • Assists in organizing themes for subsequent work and can create custom study guides, mind maps, podcasts and videos.

These powerful tools can help you with use cases that matter.

For Faculty

  • Instructional design: Generate initial drafts of syllabi, lesson plans, or creative assessments aligned with your specific learning objectives.
  • Research acceleration: Use Gemini to summarize dense literature, draft grant proposal outlines, or synthesize complex datasets.
  • Personalized learning: Quickly create differentiated course materials or alternative explanations to support students with diverse learning needs.

For Staff

  • Administrative efficiency: Automate routine tasks such as document drafting, meeting summaries, scheduling, and workflow management to increase productivity.
  • Data-driven decision support: Analyze information, identify trends, and generate insights that help inform operational, financial, and strategic decisions.
  • Professional communications: Create first drafts of emails, reports, presentations, procedures, and other business documents while maintaining human review.
  • Service excellence: Enhance responsiveness by organizing information, tracking action items, and supporting timely follow-up for students, employees, and community partners.
  • Accessibility and inclusion: Use approved AI tools to improve accessibility, accommodations, and workplace effectiveness for employees with diverse needs.