What is your Claude level, and who pays for it?
For the webinar, I used my personal Claude Max subscription ($200/month). I use AI tools extensively outside of my institutional research role at Copper Mountain College, so it’s well worth it for me. For work, I have a separate $20/month subscription that my college reimburses — and I’ve since gotten a higher level approved at $100/month.
What about your district’s AI policy?
This will be different for each district, and you should always defer to the established policy. That said, if you disagree with a policy, you may have an opportunity to make your voice heard — through committees at your institution, or by providing feedback in open forums or employee surveys.
How do you edit the resulting dashboards?
In the very same chat where the dashboard was created! I go through the dashboard and make notes on what I’d like to change. Once I have three or four edits, I drop them into the chat with Claude, then go back to reviewing the dashboard while those changes are being made. By the time they’re in place, I usually have three or four more — and so on. This is the revision workflow I’ve established to save as much time as possible, since revisions can be the most time-consuming part of the process.
What kind of data did you give Claude to create the dashboard?
Whether in VS Code or the web app, I gave Claude essentially the same things. Everything is outlined in the dashboard data spec, which you can also find on the Resource Downloads page.
What about when features change unexpectedly?
This happens! You can tell your AI to stick to only the changes you’ve expressly requested. And worst case, just ask it to roll something back to what you had before. Eventually, it should fall into line.
Where can you post your dashboard so people can see it live?
I use Netlify, although there are other, similar services out there for free!
GitHub
Does Claude have your GitHub login info?
Yes! I have granted Claude access to my GitHub account so it can commit and push changes to my repositories on my behalf.
Netlify is also authorized to connect to some of my GitHub repositories, so it can deploy changes to the websites I’ve built.
More questions about GitHub? We’ll do another webinar about using it!