I’m starting this blog with an admission: this is my favourite feature so far of Copilot365. For some reason, and even I don’t understand why, I have a real passion for making a page of my notepad last as long as possible and writing minimal notes, in random places on the current page. The current […]
Category: Advice and Guidance
Our team love AI meeting note-taking tools! We have access to them via Microsoft Copilot for 365, and it’s probably our favourite and most useful feature – it does a fantastic job of summarising key points and actions. We’re increasingly seeing AI services such as Otter and Firefly added to meetings, and understandably this is […]
Google’s Generative AI work has perhaps tended to slip a little under the radar, at least in discussions I’ve been involved in, which have tended to focus on ChatGPT and Copilot. They have just put out a lot of new info though, including, for me, probably the most interesting paper on LLMs in education for […]
In the rapidly evolving landscape of artificial intelligence (AI), the need for effective regulation has become more crucial than ever. As AI technologies continue to advance at an unprecedented pace, the ethical and societal implications of their deployment demand careful consideration and oversight. AI is revolutionising industries and reshaping the way we live and work, […]
When ChatGPT was first released, there was (and perhaps still is) some confusion with what it was doing. We mostly got used to the fact that it was, in effect, a text prediction tool, albeit one trained on vast amounts of data, with often quite amazing abilities. This meant that it was prone to making […]
I thought I’d share some very initial thoughts on Copilot for Microsoft 365, as I’ve had it for a few weeks. It’s been fairly easy for people to try most of the AI tools. That’s not the case with Copilot for Microsoft 365, as it can only be purchased and enabled by central IT […]
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Staff Guidance for FE
Following on from our Learner Guidance for FE we’ve had lots of interest in the best way to provide advice to staff across all FE institutions. In this blog post, we’ve created an example of staff advice for comment and feedback. Would this approach work for your institutions? What else would you like to see […]
In the Jisc AI team we spend a lot of our time exploring different AI tools and services, assessing their potential to enhance education. With that in mind we are launching Product Notes, a new blog series, to share our knowledge and findings with all of our members. In each entry in this series, we’ll […]
We are often asked about how we integrate AI into our everyday tasks and how it helps us to work more efficiently. While generative AI serves various purposes, one helpful function we’ve discovered is its assistance in navigating Microsoft Excel, whether that be providing step by step guidance on formulas or describing complex tasks. For […]
Introduction Legislation and developing case law will, in time, clarify the legal obligations for Generative Artificial Intelligence tool providers as well as for rightsholders and users. In the meantime, Generative AI is evolving rapidly and, as debate continues around its role within teaching, learning and assessment, the issue of ownership and of the laws of […]