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FPDS Apps and Resources
FPDS Apps and Resources is the public hub for the teaching tools built and curated by Faculty Professional Development Services at Hillsborough College. Fifteen entries sit under three headings, AI, accessibility and teaching, and each one opens the tool itself.
What you can do with it
The AI section holds four conversational coaches on Playlab: an AI Teaching Coach that pairs what is blocking student success with an evidence-based strategy, an AI Literacy Design Coach that adapts AI Literacy to a course, an Academic Habits Coach for students, and the AI-Era Assignment Design Coach, which also exists as a NotebookLM notebook and a non-AI worksheet and treats assignments as a matter of balance rather than of being made AI-proof. It also carries a Canvas course of ready-made AI literacy materials, a self-paced AI Petting Zoo tour, a Gemini Gem for designing online modules, and this knowledge base. Accessibility is led by the office's own Canvas checklist, which asks what you are working with and walks pages, images, documents, slides, PDFs, video and links before a course-wide sweep; beside it are the college's Pressbooks book on digital accessibility and a Gemini Gem that writes alt text. Teaching collects a handbook course for Canvas teaching, a starter kit to copy into your own course, a course of evidence-based strategies with ready-made Canvas items, and an online teaching checklist.
Who it is for
Instructors and Educational Development staff at Hillsborough College, and instructors elsewhere looking for a worked example of a small faculty-development site built from static pages that can be copied rather than rebuilt.
Notes and caveats
Reading needs no account, and the Canvas courses and checklists it links to are public. The Playlab coaches and the Gemini Gems and notebooks are third-party services that do need one. The cards render from apps.json, so the full list needs JavaScript and the no-script fallback names eight of the fifteen; the short link tinyurl.com/fpdapps and a header QR code open it on a phone. The repository is MIT-licensed software, while the guides it links to carry their own licenses, the Pressbooks book among them under a non-commercial Creative Commons license. There is no publication schedule, so the page changes without notice.
Connected Concepts
Academic Integrity, Learning Design, Generative AI, Accessibility, Educational Development, Online Teaching and Learning, AI Literacy
Connected Resources
- EduPromptsEric Curts's free, growing library of more than 160 pre-made AI prompts for schools, organized by teaching task and moving from Gemini Gems to Gemini Skills.
- Gemini NotebookGoogle's source-grounded notebook assistant (NotebookLM until July 2026): upload a set of documents and ask questions, generate study aids, and produce audio, video and slide outputs grounded in those sources.
- LiaScriptAn open Markdown dialect that turns a plain text file into an interactive course in the browser, with quizzes and runnable code, plus a multi-agent assistant for building courses with it.