This section covers practical exercises to explore a range of both generative and non-generative AI tools that can complement your learning processes. The content here will be the most useful if you have already been through the rest of this guide, particularly prompting techniques, ethical use of AI, and how to reference AI tools.
The assessment process can feel time-consuming and confusing - which makes the temptation to cut corners much more appealing. Artificial intelligence can be a really powerful tool in your arsenal and learning how to use it efficiently can enhance your creativity, ease up the manual and laborious parts of your assignments, and give you a second set of eyes to sanity check the work you've done, but you also need to make sure that using it doesn't compromise your academic integrity.
If you are on a creative course, such as Photography, you may need to think about AI with a dual perspective: you will have different guidelines on how to use AI efficiently and ethically in your creative processes (image creation or enhancement, for example) and for your written components. This hub and the practical exercises in this section relate for the most part to the written components of your academic work.
Uploading lecture slides into a tool that turns them into flashcards sounds pretty innocent and very useful. But do you know how the information you upload is processed, stored, and used? Who has access to it? Do you have permission to upload the content? You can tackle a lot of these considerations by removing any personal or sensitive data from content you're uploading and checking out the privacy and data processing statements to understand what happens to the information you upload before doing so.