What AI Tool(s) Can I Use?
Microsoft Copilot
Currently, Microsoft Copilot with Enterprise data protection (distinct from Microsoft 365 Copilot) is the only AI tool approved for use at NIC; however, this may change as additional tools undergo review. It is available to all faculty, staff, and students through NIC’s M365 license.
To access this tool, users can log in at https://copilot.cloud.microsoft/ or use the Microsoft Edge browser sidebar with their NIC credentials. A shield or profile name will indicate if users are logged in correctly, ensuring privacy and data protection. However, this secure connection is only available when users are logged in.
NIC can recommend this tool because it has undergone a Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA). Instructors and students can follow the “Detailed Guidance” section developed by UBC for protecting personal information and intellectual property.
Note: “Low-risk information” refers to data that is publicly shareable and that the user has the right (copyright and intellectual property) to make public.
What AI Tools are Available?
A number of AI tools are referenced throughout this site, find them summarized and linked below.
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Microsoft Copilot | Free | Copilot uses your NIC Microsoft Office 365 account. Useful for everyday questions. |
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Gemini | Free | Free from Google (used to be called Bard). Useful for everyday questions, planning, organizing. |
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Chat GPT | Free | From OpenAI, useful for everyday tasks. |
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Claude | Free | Free when you make an account with Anthropic. Useful for everyday tasks. Claude Artefacts can produce visuals, games, and interactive components. |
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Grammarly | Free | An AI writing partner that can edit your writing as you compose it. |
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Quillbot | Free | Uses eight different tools that assist with your writing process. |
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Hemingway Editor | Free | Improves writing clarity and style by making suggestions to improve grammar and writing style. |
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Notion AI | Free | A collaborative planning tool, you can capture your ideas, get feedback from teammates, and ask AI to add the finishing touches. |
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Sudowrite | Free Trial Available | An editing and writing assistant that can assist with your writing in real time. |
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NotebookLM | Free | Analyze your uploaded documents to provide summaries and insights that help you refine the structure of your work. |
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MindMeister | Free | A mind mapping tool that can assist with project planning, brain storming, knowledge management, designing timelines and presentations. |
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Scite | Starts at $20.45/month | An AI tool that assists in academic research by discovering and evaluating academic articles. |
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Perplexity | Free | An AI-powered search engine and chatbot that uses natural language processing to answer questions. |
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Scribe AI | Free | AI-powered tool that automates the process of documenting work processes and creating step-by-step guides. Can assist with research organization. |
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Trello with AI Integration | Free | Collaboration tool to help manage projects. |
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Scrivener | Free Trial Available | Scrivener is a word-processing program and outliner that helps organize documents, notes and research. |
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SMMRY | Free | A simple, algorithm-based text reduction tool that extracts key sentences to create quick summaries of articles or documents. |
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Resoomer | Free | Allows users to condense lengthy argumentative texts into concise summaries, making it easier to grasp the main ideas without spending excessive time reading the entire piece. |
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Scholarcy | Free Trial Available | Summarizes, analyzes and organizes your research. |
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Dall-E 3 | Free Version with ChatGPT | Generate unique images from text prompts. |
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Leonardo AI | Free | Can be used to generate images, video, graphic design assets and other forms of media. |
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Canva | Free | A design tool used to create various forms of digital media. |
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Microsoft Designer AI | Free | Turn text to image to create art, presentations, posters, photos and other digital media. |
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11ElevenLabs | Free | Free account creates realistic speech from text inputs |
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Notebook LM | Free | Just drag and drop your text document and generate a podcast!! |
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AI Music generator | Free | Free account, type in the style of music you want. Good luck! |
