Generative AI tools (Gemini, CoPilot, ChatGPT and more)

Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) has exploded across the world and throughout the educational landscape, and with it come both opportunities and challenges. This site showcases key resources from across the University of Minnesota on how to best incorporate generative AI into your teaching practices.

Teaching with AI Guide, a resource by the College of Liberal Arts Technologies and Innovation Services (LATIS)

Gemini is an opt-in, University-vetted generative artificial intelligence (AI) tool that can assist with various tasks, from brainstorming and content creation to providing personalized learning experiences. When using Gemini with a UMN internet ID, users have enterprise-grade data protections, which means your data remains private and secure.

A guide developed by Teaching Support, for instructors on how to use Microsoft CoPilot within the context of teaching and learning.

A guide for instructors developed by Teaching Support on how to use Zoom AI companion within the context of teaching and learning.

There are copyright issues around training AI models, sharing materials with existing AI tools, and creating new content with AI tools. Most of these issues are very unsettled right now, and are likely to continue evolving rapidly in the next few years. There are also some related legal and ethical issues, that are also evolving rapidly.

Instructors can require students to share works in certain ways - such as requiring posting a video online, or requiring use of generative AI tools, but should include those requirements in the course syllabus.

This short video from the UMN Libraries introduces AI tools such as ChatGPT for undergraduates. The video briefly covers how AI works, how (and if) you can use AI for your research, plus some major concerns experts have about the current state of AI.