What AI Tools 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

What AI Tools are Available?

A num­ber of AI tools are ref­er­enced through­out this site, find them sum­ma­rized and linked below. 

Tool  Cost Descrip­tion
Microsoft Copi­lot Free  Copi­lot uses your NIC Microsoft Office 365 account. Use­ful for every­day ques­tions.
Gem­i­ni Free  Free from Google (used to be called Bard). Use­ful for every­day ques­tions, plan­ning, orga­niz­ing.
Chat GPT Free  From Ope­nAI, use­ful for every­day tasks.
Claude Free Free when you make an account with Anthrop­ic. Use­ful for every­day tasks.  Claude Arte­facts can pro­duce visu­als, games, and inter­ac­tive com­po­nents. 
Tool Cost Descrip­tion
Gram­marly Free An AI writ­ing part­ner that can edit your writ­ing as you com­pose it.
Quill­bot Free Uses eight dif­fer­ent tools that assist with your writ­ing process.
Hem­ing­way Edi­tor Free Improves writ­ing clar­i­ty and style by mak­ing sug­ges­tions to improve gram­mar and writ­ing style.
Notion AI Free A col­lab­o­ra­tive plan­ning tool, you can cap­ture your ideas, get feed­back from team­mates, and ask AI to add the fin­ish­ing touch­es. 
Sudowrite Free Tri­al Avail­able An edit­ing and writ­ing assis­tant that can assist with your writ­ing in real time. 
Note­bookLM Free Ana­lyze your uploaded doc­u­ments to pro­vide sum­maries and insights that help you refine the struc­ture of your work. 
Tool Cost  Descrip­tion
Mind­Meis­ter Free A mind map­ping tool that can assist with project plan­ning, brain storm­ing, knowl­edge man­age­ment, design­ing time­lines and pre­sen­ta­tions. 
Scite Starts at $20.45/month An AI tool that assists in aca­d­e­m­ic research by dis­cov­er­ing and eval­u­at­ing aca­d­e­m­ic arti­cles.
Per­plex­i­ty Free An AI-pow­ered search engine and chat­bot that uses nat­ur­al lan­guage pro­cess­ing to answer ques­tions. 
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.
Trel­lo with AI Inte­gra­tion Free Col­lab­o­ra­tion tool to help man­age projects. 
Tool Cost Descrip­tion
Scriven­er Free Tri­al Avail­able Scriven­er is a word-pro­cess­ing pro­gram and out­lin­er that helps orga­nize doc­u­ments, notes and research.
SMMRY Free  A sim­ple, algo­rithm-based text reduc­tion tool that extracts key sen­tences to cre­ate quick sum­maries of arti­cles or doc­u­ments. 
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.
Schol­ar­cy Free Tri­al Avail­able Sum­ma­rizes, ana­lyzes and orga­nizes your research.
Tool Cost Descrip­tion
Dall‑E 3 Free Ver­sion with Chat­G­PT Gen­er­ate unique images from text prompts.
Leonar­do AI Free Can be used to gen­er­ate images, video, graph­ic design assets and oth­er forms of media.
Can­va Free A design tool used to cre­ate var­i­ous forms of dig­i­tal media.
Microsoft Design­er AI Free Turn text to image to cre­ate art, pre­sen­ta­tions, posters, pho­tos and oth­er dig­i­tal media.
Tool Cost Descrip­tion
11ElevenLabs  Free Free account cre­ates real­is­tic speech from text inputs
Note­book LM  Free Just drag and drop your text doc­u­ment and gen­er­ate a pod­cast!!
AI Music gen­er­a­tor Free Free account, type in the style of music you want. Good luck!
Tool Cost Descrip­tion
Syn­the­sia  Free Syn­the­sia offers free ver­sions with lim­it­ed fea­tures, with the option to upgrade to paid plans for addi­tion­al capa­bil­i­ties.
Hey­Gen  Free Hey­Gen offers free ver­sions with lim­it­ed fea­tures, with the option to upgrade to paid plans for addi­tion­al capa­bil­i­ties.
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