Playlab exists to democratize access to AI — putting the power to build, not just use, AI tools into the hands of educators, counselors, and administrators across all 116 California Community Colleges. This is what the Chancellor's Office and Vision 2030 look like in practice.
"The California Community Colleges system is committed to ensuring that all students, faculty, and staff have equitable access to the transformative potential of artificial intelligence."— California Community Colleges Chancellor's Office, Vision 2030
Vision 2030 calls California's community colleges to lead on equity, innovation, and student success. That means closing gaps — not just in outcomes, but in who gets to shape the systems that produce those outcomes.
The collaboration between the Chancellor's Office and Playlab is a direct answer to that call. Playlab was founded on the belief that AI should be accessible to everyone — not just engineers and tech companies. Together, we're putting that belief into practice at the largest system of higher education in the nation.
When a counselor at a rural community college can build a student support tool in an afternoon — that's what democratized AI looks like. That's Vision 2030.
Playlab's mission is to democratize access to AI — not just as a tool to consume, but as a medium to create. The platform gives educators, counselors, and administrators the ability to design, build, and deploy AI solutions for the specific challenges they face every day. The technology is the means. The mission is equity.
Build AI tools through prompt engineering and no-code tool construction — no programming required. If you can articulate a problem, you can build the solution.
Every CCC campus has a private, secure workspace. Build and share tools within your community — and keep your institution's data exactly where it belongs.
Playlab was built for the margins first — for multilingual learners, first-generation students, and the programs that serve them. Equity isn't a feature; it's the foundation.
Share what you build across your college or the entire CCC system. One well-designed tool, deployed at scale, can transform the experience of thousands of students.
A structured, cohort-based program for CCC faculty and staff ready to go deep — building real AI tools while developing transferable skills for their college. Participants receive a modest honorarium in recognition of their work.
The Chancellor's Innovators Program puts CCC faculty and staff at the forefront of leading the future of teaching, learning, and innovation in higher education — in the AI era, on their own terms, for their own communities.
Two focused tracks — one for faculty building discipline-embedded AI literacy, one for administrators and staff driving operational transformation. Both culminate in a working AI tool deployed at your college. Participants receive a modest honorarium for their contribution.
For instructors across all disciplines ready to become the pioneers defining what AI fluency looks like in their field. You are not reacting to AI — you are shaping how your students, your department, and your institution understand it.
For administrators and classified professionals who see the operational challenges clearly — and are ready to lead the institution into a new era of efficiency, communication, and student support at scale.
T3 is for experienced Playlab users who are ready to take the next step — becoming AI champions and trainers within their own college communities. T3 participants leave with the facilitation skills, resources, and network to lead professional development at their campus. Participants receive a modest honorarium for their work.
T3 is a selective pathway. If you've completed foundational Playlab training and are interested in expanding AI capacity at your college, reach out to learn more.
Interested? Email Dr. C (Christyna Serrano, Head of Community Learning & Growth at Playlab, Hartnell College Alumna, and Berkeley Changemaker Professor) directly: christyna@playlab.ai
The AI Solutions Studio — currently active as the Playlab Database Pilot — is a crowdsourced solutioning initiative led by Dr. Tiffany Kuo at Mt. SAC.
The mission: build a shared, open-access library of AI tools and prompts purpose-built for the California Community Colleges context — searchable, remixable, and credited to the people who created them. Every contribution becomes a resource available to all 116 colleges.
This is distributed leadership in practice. Contributors receive full authorship attribution, demonstrating their leadership across the CCC system.
If you've built a Playlab tool that's working — for a course, a department, a student-facing service — contribute it to the Studio. Your solution may be exactly what another college has been searching for.
Your expertise, your authorship, your impact — at scale. Projects are ongoing and welcome new contributors throughout the year.
Contribute to the Studio →All sessions are offered at no cost. New to Playlab? Completing an onboarding session (live or async) is required before you can access your college's workspace. Already have a Playlab account? You can connect directly to your college workspace via Playlab CCC Connect — just log in with your existing account (don't create a new one, or you'll receive an error).
Public Learning Sessions are hosted by Playlab and open to anyone around the world — educators, researchers, policymakers, and curious builders. CCC community members: completing any of these sessions fulfills your required onboarding for workspace access.
Get your account set up, explore the platform, and build your first AI tool. Fulfills the onboarding requirement for CCC workspace access.
Register on Luma →Get your account set up, explore the platform, and build your first AI tool. Fulfills the onboarding requirement for CCC workspace access.
Register on Luma →Get your account set up, explore the platform, and build your first AI tool. Fulfills the onboarding requirement for CCC workspace access.
Register on Luma →Get your account set up, explore the platform, and build your first AI tool. Fulfills the onboarding requirement for CCC workspace access.
Register on Luma →These sessions are exclusively for California Community Colleges faculty, staff, and administrators. The content and context are tailored specifically to the CCC system — your workspaces, your use cases, your colleagues.
A dedicated onboarding session for California Community Colleges faculty, staff, and administrators. Tailored to the CCC system context and your college workspace.
Register on Luma →A dedicated onboarding session for California Community Colleges faculty, staff, and administrators. Tailored to the CCC system context and your college workspace.
Register on Luma →A dedicated onboarding session for California Community Colleges faculty, staff, and administrators. Tailored to the CCC system context and your college workspace.
Register on Luma →A two-session deep dive for CCC community members. Session 1 covers prompt engineering foundations and your first build. Session 2 extends into more complex tool construction. Attend both to get the full experience.
Hands-on prompt engineering and your first tool build in Playlab. This session lays the foundation for Session 2.
Register on Luma →Build on Session 1 with more complex tool construction. Walk away with a working AI app you can deploy immediately in your course or department.
Register on Luma →A two-session advanced series for CCC community members who have completed 101. Session 1 focuses on refinement techniques and iterative prompting. Session 2 adds analytics and institutional-scale design patterns. Attend both.
Deepen your builds through iterative prompt refinement and advanced construction patterns. Foundation for Session 2.
Register on Luma →Integrate analytics and design for institutional-scale tools. Complete the 201 series ready to deploy meaningful AI at your college.
Register on Luma →Access to Playlab for CCC requires connecting to your college's workspace and completing an onboarding session.
Every CCC college already has a private Playlab workspace. CCC Connect is how you join yours — connect to your college's workspace and start building AI tools with your colleagues.
Already have a Playlab account? Just log in with your existing credentials. Don't create a new account — doing so will result in an error. If you're new to Playlab, complete an onboarding session first (see below), then connect.
Open CCC ConnectAvailable to all CCC faculty, staff, and administrators. Use your college email address.
New to Playlab? The @One Canvas onboarding course walks you through everything you need to get up and running — at your own pace, on your own schedule.
Completing an onboarding session (live or async) is required for new users before accessing your college workspace. The Canvas course fully satisfies this requirement.
Start Canvas CourseAvailable to CCC employees through the @One professional development catalog.
If you're planning to have your students build in Playlab — for coursework, projects, or AI literacy initiatives — please reach out to Dr. C at christyna@playlab.ai first. We'll set up student-specific configured workspaces for your course to ensure data privacy and an appropriate learning environment.
Partnerships evolve, contracts renew, priorities shift. But Playlab was built on a promise: access. Everything you create on Playlab will always be available to you for as long as the platform exists — regardless of the status of any institutional partnership.
That means the AI tool you build this spring, the workflow you automate this semester, the student resource you design this year — those are yours. They belong to you and your institution. They will serve your students long after any single initiative concludes.
But this is about more than tools. You are building AI capacity — the skills, the frameworks, the institutional knowledge — that will shape how your college navigates the era ahead. You are not a passive receiver of technology. You are a changemaker defining the future of teaching, learning, and student support in higher education. That is the real investment, and it belongs to you entirely.
Everything you need to grow as a builder — from your first session to your most ambitious tool.
Guides, tutorials, and walkthroughs for building in Playlab — from getting your account set up to designing multi-step AI tools for your classroom or department.
Visit LearnBrowse tools and projects built by Playlab users around the world. Find something useful, remix it for your context, and see what's possible when educators build.
Explore PlaylabNeed help beyond what's in these resources — or want to learn more about the Innovators Program, T3, or the AI Solutions Studio? Reach out directly.