Gemini, Google’s generative AI chatbot, is available at no cost to students, faculty and staff by logging in to gemini.google.com using your NC State account.

To ensure your data is protected, you must log in with your NC State account. Using your NC State account, Gemini will not use or review your data to train its AI models.

Due to licensing, Gemini is not available to unpaid appointments, retirees or generic accounts.

Copilot, Microsoft’s generative AI chatbot, is available at no cost to students, faculty and staff by logging in to Microsoft 365 (formerly Office) with your NC State account.

To ensure your data is protected, you must log in to Microsoft 365 with your NC State account.

ChatGPT Team is approved for use by faculty, staff and departments.

This tool uses GPT-4o and includes access to additional features like DALL-E, browsing and advanced data analysis.

Licenses can be purchased through Open AI.

Grammarly Pro is approved for use by faculty, staff and departments.

Licenses can be purchased through Grammarly.

Upload your own sources — like notes, research papers and textbook chapters — for the tool to summarize and organize into an easy-to-digest format.

Visit notebooklm.google.com and log in with your NC State account.

To ensure your data is protected, you must log in with your NC State account.

This tool is approved for green (not sensitive) and yellow (moderately sensitive) data only as defined by the Data Management Framework.

NotebookLM Knowledge Base Article

Vids is a user-friendly video editing tool that empowers you to easily create professional-looking videos, even without prior video editing experience.

To use this tool, visit vids.google.com and log in with your NC State account.

More tools are approved, by OIT, for specific departments, frequently for uses with higher levels of data sensitivity

see: https://software.ncsu.edu/artificial-intelligence-it-purchase-process/

Concept mapping

Rewording, making into plain English, or "Explain this like I'm aged 10"

Generating images from descriptive text

Creating quiz questions for self-checks

Engaging in convos about subject matter

Assist with brainstorming

Collating results from searches

Creating and formatting references

Creating images beyond your skills

Summarizing content

Jamworks is good for AI notetaking (not an approved tool)

Describe images in words

Describe objects or faces (Seeing AI)

Captioning (automatic and live)

Prompting for reflection

Running built-in checkers, generators (Office 365, etc)

Analyzing color contrast

Improving accessibility of code (GitHub Copilot Chat, GPT Accessiblity CoPilot)

Ask Microsoft Accessibility - helps develop accessible content

Analyzing for respectful language

Identifying insensitive language or narrow perspectives

Generating a glossary of table-formatted content

Summarizing main ideas for students ahead of a lesson, or creating a bullet point summary to close a lesson

Generating FAQ based on content

Suggesting or creating visual content based on your text

Suggesting related videos

Microsoft 365 - Newer versions of PowerPoint will now automatically generate alt text for images as they are added to slides. The user is notified that alt text has been generated, and has the option to revise it. Note that “Description automatically generated” is included in the alt text

Describing complex diagrams

AltText.ai

Generating captions for videos (Zoom, Panopto do this)

Assessing language for readability

Simplifying complex language for better understanding ("Explain this like I'm aged 10")

Improving reading comprehension

Improve reading comprehension with Rewordify | Texthelp

OCR image-to-text

EqualWeb

Equidox

Commonlook (now Allyant)

Sensus Access

Hand-written notes to LaTeX via ChatGPT, Equatio

Image recognition, description

Speech captioning

Multiple speaker distinction - Ava - mobile app what converts spoken words into text for discussions (makes each speaker’s words a different color)

Composing messages particularly if one lacks confidence and finds themselves struggling with wording

Correcting for tone

Reading lips - SRAVI (Speech Recognition App for the Voice Impaired) - lip reading AI