The Edu Prompt: AI for the Work of Education
ChatGPT Work, Sites, practical prompts, reusable skills, and new Skill Labs from OpenAI Academy.
Issue 3: July 17, 2026
Welcome back to The Edu Prompt, a field guide for learning, teaching, and building with AI from OpenAI Education.
This week brings new launches, practical workflows, and field notes from education teams around the world.
In This Issue
Feature: ChatGPT Work and what it could mean for education teams.
Product Corner: Sites for turning ideas into simple, shareable pages. Also worth noting from last week: GPT-5.6 and GPT-Live.
Try this with ChatGPT: Make a scene.
Try this with ChatGPT Work: Calibrate an assessment.
Pro-tip: Build a skill.
Around the World: OpenAI Education for Countries meets leaders in Italy.
Learning with OpenAI: New hands-on Skill Labs.
Feature Story: Introducing ChatGPT Work
Faculty and staff around the world already use ChatGPT to brainstorm, draft, analyze, and solve problems. ChatGPT Work, powered by our latest frontier model, GPT-5.6, extends those familiar workflows into projects that involve multiple steps, sources, tools, and deliverables.
AI is becoming less about one-off answers and more about helping people organize, draft, analyze, and reuse work across the flow of a day. For educators, staff, and leaders, that matters because the bottleneck is rarely a lack of ideas. It is turning those ideas into something usable: a lesson plan, a family message, a grant outline, a meeting brief, a rubric, a project plan, or a first draft that can be improved.
ChatGPT Work is designed for tasks that need context, tools, and follow-through.
Product Corner: Build a webpage with Sites
With ChatGPT Work, Codex, and Sites, you can move from a rough idea to a lightweight webpage that is easy to share. For education teams, that can mean a resource hub, project tracker, event page, course companion, or internal guide without starting from a blank page.
Example
Create an experience focused on W. B. Yeats’s poem “The Song of Wandering Aengus.”
Include the full public-domain poem, a brief Yeats biography, historically appropriate
images, and interactive annotations on selected lines and phrases.
Style it with an early-20th-century Arts and Crafts / Celtic Revival look,
using aged paper textures, restrained ornament, period typography, and accessible contrast.
Build the site directly in @sites and return an editable result.
Try this with ChatGPT
Create a time-travel classroom: Use ChatGPT to generate images that help students bring ideas, people, and concepts together. Use this as a discussion starter, not a historical source.
Create a realistic classroom where Leonardo da Vinci, Ada Lovelace,
Albert Einstein, Maya Angelou, and Marie Curie are all students learning together.
Educational, respectful, historically recognizable.Fine-tune output: Once you get an image, tap “Edit” and use the comment feature to select areas you’d like to modify.
Try this with ChatGPT Work
Calibrate assessments: Review scoring patterns without assigning or changing grades.
Review the de-identified submissions, rubric, grading export,
sample feedback, course outcomes, and calibration rules I provide.
Create a calibration workbook that:
- flags possible scoring inconsistencies
- summarizes common strengths and gaps
- identifies feedback themes
- suggests rubric clarifications
- cites evidence for every flag
Do not assign or change grades. Route every scoring judgment to faculty review.Don’t forget to validate the findings: Faculty reviewers should check the source evidence, confirm that comparisons are like-for-like, and look for missing context such as accommodations or assignment variants.
Open the calibration workbook prompt in ChatGPT
Pro-tip: Build a skill for repeated workflows
You can turn a repeated workflow into a reusable Skill that you can invoke later by name. Here’s an example for prioritizing your inbox.
Help me create a reusable skill that reviews recent email and prioritizes what needs my attention.
Before creating it, ask me one question at a time about:
- Which inbox and date range to review
- What counts as actionable or urgent
- People or topics to prioritize
- The output format I want
- What actions the skill may take
Suggest sensible defaults when I’m unsure.
Then summarize the proposed workflow for my approval before creating the reusable skill.
Around the World: Field Notes from Italy
Last week, OpenAI’s Education for Countries team traveled across Italy to learn from and strategize with university leaders, professors, PhD students, and local businesses to imagine and build the future of education with AI.
Each stop—Turin, Modena, and Naples—revealed the unique culture, industry, educational focus, and aspirations of each region. AI is most powerful when it amplifies the experiences, skills, and intentions of people and communities.
Learning with OpenAI: New Skill Labs
Join us in OpenAI Academy’s newest learning series, Skill Labs, where you’ll get hands-on practice with everyday workflows you can use immediately, whether you’re faculty, staff, working in student support, or an administrator.
07.30 Automating workflows
08.06 Analyzing data
08.11 Managing daily work
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We are looking for practical examples from educators, faculty, staff, students, and education teams using OpenAI tools to save time, improve learning, or build something new. Reply with what you tried, what changed, and what another educator or team could reuse.
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