Universitas Negeri Yogyakarta (UNY) opens its campus to vocational training and short courses for people who are not studying at the university. These courses are open to participants from outside the university, particularly teachers, lecturers and other professionals, and they run in two ways: on an ad hoc basis and on a programmed basis.

One example of ad hoc training is the Workshop on Assessment and Evaluation Models for Physics Learning with a Deep Learning Approach. The Department of Physics Education, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, held the workshop on Saturday, 23 August 2025, in the department's meeting room on the UNY campus. It was part of a community service programme run in partnership with the Yogyakarta City Secondary Education Office (Balai Pendidikan Menengah Kota Yogyakarta). The participants were physics teachers, not UNY students. They practised designing assessment instruments, worked through simulations and tried out deep-learning-based assessment for use in their own classrooms. The workshop was held once, in response to teachers' needs at the time, and the Education Office expressed hope that similar training would follow.

Other faculties also held ad hoc training. On 26 July and 2 August 2025, the Department of Mechanical Engineering Education, Faculty of Engineering, ran a training session on "Laser Cutting and 3D Printing to Support Digital Technology-Based Learning" at its Product Design Laboratory. Twenty vocational secondary school (SMK) teachers from Yogyakarta and the surrounding area learnt to create three-dimensional designs, print them on FDM printers and cut materials precisely with a laser cutter.

Earlier, on Thursday, 26 June 2025, the Department of Social Studies Education, together with the Indonesian Association of Social Studies Educators (APEPSI), held a Deep Learning Workshop to develop the competence of social studies teachers at UNY Hotel on the Karangmalang campus. Dozens of social studies teachers from various regions who are members of APEPSI took part.

On a programmed basis, UNY offers the Basic Instructional Skills Training (Pelatihan Peningkatan Keterampilan Dasar Teknik Instruksional, PEKERTI) and the Applied Approach (AA) course, managed by the Directorate of Quality Assurance. This is a short course for lecturers who already hold a teaching assignment letter or decree, including lecturers from other institutions, and it is one of the requirements for lecturer certification. Applicants can register individually, and a new class opens whenever at least 25 participants have enrolled. Face-to-face sessions take place on the sixth floor of the Imam Barnadib Building or at UNY Hotel, both on the UNY Karangmalang campus, whilst online sessions use Zoom and UNY's GLACIER learning platform. Through these two approaches, UNY provides practical learning that is closely linked to people's work. Teachers, lecturers and other professionals can keep developing their competence throughout their lives.