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AI Literacy resources designed for staff

We’re thrilled to introduce new resources designed to help staff build their AI literacy skills. These materials help educators and professional services staff understand and use AI effectively and responsibly. What have we focused on? The resources cover several key areas to provide practical and adaptable guidance: AI Fundamentals These resources provide HE and FE […]

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Navigating the terms and conditions of generative AI

(note: last updated 21 November 2024 – see here for the update history.) Table of Contents Overview of AI tools and data practices Text generation tools ChatGPT (OpenAI) Google Gemini Anthropic Claude Microsoft Copilot (Consumer versions) Microsoft Copilot (Enterprise versions) Perplexity Poe (Quora’s AI Assistant Platform) Image generation tools DALL∙E (OpenAI) Midjourney Adobe Firefly Accessibility […]

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Prompting insights from our image generation pilot sessions

This post was created as a support resource for participants of the image generation pilot. It may also be helpful for anyone who’s interested in the applications of generative AI and image generation in education. We’ve had some fantastic insights shared during our image generation pilot drop-in sessions. Recently, much of the focus has been […]

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Grammarly Authorship and acknowledging AI use in assessment

Navigating the impacts of generative AI on assessment remains a complex and evolving challenge. In discussing these issues it’s been recommended to encourage students to document the creation of their work. Saving conversation logs with generative AI tools or enabling tracked changes within their documents in order to help them demonstrate their use, or lack […]

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An introduction to using Ideogram for Image Generation

This post was created as a support resource for participants of the image generation pilot. It may also be helpful for anyone who’s interested in the applications of generative AI and image generation in education. Overview During one of our Image Generation Pilot drop-in sessions, Shaun Daubney (Digital Marketing and Communications Lead at Newbury College), […]

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ChatGPT as a legal review tool

Going through legal information can be a tiresome task and is one that not everyone manages to do with ease. Understanding legal information can be complex as it is often difficult to read and can be time consuming to filter through. Lately, I have been experimenting with the use of ChatGPT as a legal review […]

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Licensing Options for Generative AI

(note: last updated 16th Oct 2024 – see here for the update history.) We are getting a lot of questions about licensing options for generative AI tools, so we thought it would be useful to summarise the current situation.  It’s fair to say that things are still moving quickly,  and there are a fair number […]

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Image Generation Pilot Resource Bank

  This post will serve as a resource bank for the image generation pilot. Here, pilot participants will find links to a range of resources that we think they’ll find useful. Even if you’re not taking part in the pilot, the resources here may still be helpful, particularly if you want to learn more about […]

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How-To Guides

An introduction to using Adobe Firefly for image generation

This post was created as a support resource for participants of the image generation pilot. It may also be helpful to anyone who’s interested in the applications of generative AI and image generation in education. Getting started If you decide to use Adobe Firefly at your oranisation, follow the steps set out below: Go to […]

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An introduction to using ChatGPT Plus for image generation

  This post was created as a support resource for participants of the image generation pilot. It may also be helpful for anyone who’s interested in the applications of generative AI and image generation in education. Overview  ChatGPT Plus (the paid for version), will create images for users based on their input. To do this, […]