How We Tag Information
Think of the tags below as the primary categories in a faculty member’s AI toolkit. Each post on this publication is tagged with one or more of these tags to indicate the platform being used and the practical application being discussed. Clicking on any tag will take you to a page showing all the posts that share that tag, allowing you to focus on the topics that matter most to you right now.
For example, if you are preparing a new course, click the Course & Curriculum Design tag. If you are in the middle of a literature review, click Literature Review & Discovery. If you want to know the different ways you can use ChatGPT, click that tag.
This system is designed to help you move beyond the headlines and find targeted, actionable advice for the real-world tasks you face every day.
Platform Tags
ATLAS.ti: A leading qualitative data analysis software that has integrated AI features to assist with coding, summarization, and interpretation of textual data. atlas.ti
Canva: A comprehensive design platform with AI features like Magic Design for presentations, text-to-image generation, and video editing. Essential for creating professional-looking course materials. canva.com
ChatGPT: The foundational large language model from OpenAI. Essential for a wide range of tasks including brainstorming, drafting text, summarizing content, and generating code. chat.openai.com
Claude: An AI assistant from Anthropic known for its large context window, making it ideal for summarizing long documents, analyzing complex papers, and engaging in nuanced conversations. claude.ai
Consensus: An AI search engine that extracts and distills findings directly from scientific research. Excellent for getting quick, evidence-based answers to research questions. consensus.app
Coursebox: An AI course creator that helps you design and build an online course in under an hour. Useful for rapidly prototyping course structures and generating initial content. coursebox.ai
Elicit: An AI research assistant that automates parts of the literature review process. It can find relevant papers, summarize them, and extract key information into a table. elicit.com
Gamma: An AI-powered tool for creating engaging presentations, documents, and webpages from text prompts. A fast alternative to traditional slide-based presentation software. gamma.app
Gemini: Google’s multimodal AI model, deeply integrated with Google’s ecosystem. Excellent for research, summarizing documents, and leveraging real-time web information. gemini.google.com
Gradescope: A platform that streamlines the grading process with AI-assisted grading, which groups similar answers for batch grading. Supports a wide variety of assignment types. gradescope.com
Grammarly: An AI writing assistant that checks for grammar, spelling, punctuation, clarity, and tone. Essential for professional communication in emails, reports, and course materials. grammarly.com
Jenni AI: An AI writing assistant that helps with brainstorming, outlining, and drafting academic papers. It can also help with citations and paraphrasing. jenni.ai
Julius AI: An AI data analyst that can analyze and visualize data from spreadsheets, CSV files, and Google Sheets. You can ask questions in natural language to get charts and insights. julius.ai
MagicSchool.ai: An AI platform with a suite of tools for educators, including a rubric generator, lesson planner, and assessment question creator. While K-12 focused, many tools are adaptable to higher ed. magicschool.ai
Copilot: Microsoft’s AI assistant, integrated into the Windows and Microsoft 365 ecosystem. Useful for productivity tasks within familiar applications like Word, PowerPoint, and Excel. copilot.microsoft.com
Midjourney: A high-quality AI image generator that creates detailed and artistic images from text prompts. Excellent for generating custom illustrations, graphical abstracts, and other visual content. midjourney.com
NotebookLM: A research assistant from Google that allows you to ground a language model in your own source materials. Ideal for synthesizing information and asking questions about your own research library. notebooklm.google.com
Otter.ai: An AI-powered transcription service that provides real-time transcription of meetings and lectures. It can automatically generate summaries and identify action items. otter.ai
Packback: An AI-powered discussion platform that encourages critical thinking and curiosity by coaching students on how to ask better questions and write more effective responses. packback.co
Paperpal: A comprehensive AI academic writing tool that provides grammar checking, paraphrasing, and plagiarism detection specifically for scholarly manuscripts. paperpal.com
ResearchRabbit: A visual discovery tool that helps you explore the academic literature. Create collections of papers and it will recommend related work, creating a visual map of the research landscape. researchrabbit.ai
Scite: An award-winning platform that helps researchers discover and evaluate scientific articles through Smart Citations, which show how a publication has been cited by others. scite.ai
Tutor AI: An AI-powered tutor that can help students learn a wide variety of subjects. Faculty can use this as a supplemental resource for students who need extra support. tutorai.me
Turnitin: The industry standard for academic integrity, providing plagiarism detection and an AI writing detector. Essential for upholding standards in student submissions. turnitin.com
Application Tags
Academic Writing & Publishing: Using AI to draft and revise scholarly work. Covers manuscript drafting, grant writing, peer review, journal selection, and formatting for publication.
AI Policy & Ethics: Addressing the governance and ethical dimensions of AI in academia. Covers academic integrity, AI detection, institutional policies, and responsible AI use.
Assessment & Feedback: Using AI for student evaluation. Covers rubric creation, question generation, automated grading, plagiarism detection, and providing personalized, scalable feedback.
Content & Media Creation: Using AI to generate educational materials. Covers images, diagrams, videos, presentations, graphical abstracts, and translating content into different formats or languages.
Course & Curriculum Design: Using AI to design courses, syllabi, and learning experiences. Covers learning objectives, lesson planning, case studies, and aligning curriculum with assessments.
Literature Review & Discovery: Using AI to find, synthesize, and manage scholarly literature. Covers literature search, screening, summarization, data extraction, and citation management.
Productivity & Administration: Using AI for administrative and productivity tasks. Covers email management, meeting summaries, scheduling, committee reports, and workflow automation.
Prompt Engineering: The cross-cutting skill of designing effective prompts to get better results from any AI tool for any academic task.
Research & Data Analysis: Using AI in the research process. Covers qualitative coding, quantitative analysis, data visualization, transcription, and generating synthetic data for testing.
Student Engagement & Support: Using AI to enhance student interaction and provide support. Covers AI tutors, chatbots, adaptive learning, identifying at-risk students, and creating personalized learning pathways.
This page will be updated as new tools and applications emerge. If you have a use case you’d like to see covered, please feel free to leave a comment below.