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Airtable

Airtable AI is a set of integrated generative AI tools that enhance workflows, automate tasks, and facilitate data analysis within the Airtable platform.

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Primary category

Productivity & Workflow Automation

Cost

None

Overview

Airtable is a cloud tool that looks like a spreadsheet but works like a database: you organize information into tables (projects, assets, requests, courses) that can link to each other, then view the same data as a grid, calendar, kanban board, or shareable dashboard, with no coding required. Its built-in AI can summarize records, categorize incoming items, and draft text directly inside your tables, and AI-powered "agents" and automations can handle repetitive steps for you. For EdPlus staff, it is a practical way to replace sprawling spreadsheets with organized, collaborative trackers. ASU runs its own enterprise Airtable instance with ASURITE single sign-on.

Teaching uses

Featured ways to use this tool

Run a content or campaign calendar

Track marketing campaigns, social posts, or newsroom articles in one table with status, owner, and publish date, then view it as a calendar or kanban board. Airtable AI can draft a first-pass description or summary for each item as it is added.

Manage a production pipeline across teams

Model a course build, video shoot, or design project as records moving through stages (intake, draft, review, launch), with each record linked to its assets and owners. Automations can notify the next person in Slack or email when a stage changes.

Triage intake requests automatically

Collect requests through an Airtable form (creative requests, tool suggestions, event proposals) and let Airtable AI categorize and summarize each submission so the team sees a clean, prioritized queue instead of an inbox.

Build a no-code dashboard for leadership

Use Interface Designer to turn your working tables into a polished, view-only dashboard — for example, a live rollup of active projects by status and team that you share with a director instead of emailing spreadsheet snapshots.

Getting started

How to get started

Confirm the cost with your supervisor

ASU Airtable Enterprise is $240.60 per year for employees and is charged back to your department. Students use it at no cost.

Submit the ServiceNow request

Use the Airtable request form.

Read the background article

KB0020386 covers what the enterprise account includes and how an existing personal account gets converted.

Learn & explore

Videos, guides & resources

Demos, tutorials, and curated resources for Airtable. Play or read them right here.

Airtable basics 2: records and linked records

By far the longest part of the five and the one that repays close attention. Linked records are the idea most people skip, and skipping them is why so many trackers end up as one sprawling table.

11:28

How to Use Airtable

A quick orientation if your team is standing up a tracker. Covers enough structure to build something useful without over-engineering it.

3:55

Airtable basics 1: bases and tables

Ninety seconds of orientation before any building starts. Worth watching first even if you already have a base open, because the four parts that follow assume the vocabulary this one sets up.

1:24

Airtable basics 3: field types and views

The point where a base stops behaving like a spreadsheet. Choosing a real field type instead of leaving everything as plain text is what makes the views in part four possible.

5:08

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