The Chicago School Library: AI Guidance and Resources for Students: Generative AI Resources

Resources at the Chicago School

Guides

Artificial Intelligence and Academic Writing
From the Chicago School Academic Support Center: Learn how to use Generative AI with integrity in your writing and school work: This guide walks you though how you can use Generative AI, using AI with integrity, and citing ChatGPT.
Artificial Intelligence (AI) Tools and Resources Guide
Includes an overview of popular AI research tools, guidance on crafting prompts in these tools, information literacy and AI, and resources and further reading related to core AI ethical concerns and issues, and more.

Self Guided Tutorials & Courses

Chicago School Academic Support Hub Tutorials:

Using Ai in the Writing Process
In this tutorial, learn how Ai can be incorporated into the writing and learning process, while developing critical thinking skills to evaluate the ethical implications of AI in your academic writing.
Learning in the Age of Ai
This tutorial covers the basics of Generative Ai, including ethical considerations and more.

Tutorials and courses available in the Library's SAGE database.

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Introduction to Artificial Intelligence
In this short 3-hour course, gain a foundational understanding of AI, including what it is, how it can be leveraged, and why output must always be fact-checked.
The Art of ChatGPT Interactions
This course is designed to help you master the art of prompt engineering, deepen your understanding of how ChatGPT works, and learn how a systematic approach can help you get better outcomes.
Essay Writing and Artificial Intelligence
Learn how Generative Ai writes, ethical considerations of AI-generated writing, and using AI safely in academic writing

Resources on the Web

The 2025 Student Guide to Artificial Intelligence
Developed by Elon University in partnership with AAC&U (American Association of Colleges and
Universities), and with the collaboration and review of faculty, scholars, academic leaders, and students at universities around the world, this guide provides guidelines, a checklist for using AI ethically, suggested ways to use AI, cautions about the downsides of using AI, lists of AI resources, and suggestions for writing prompts.

Copilot Ai

The Chicago School’s Microsoft 365 licensing agreement provides current students, faculty, and staff privacy protected access to Microsoft Copilot chat, a generative AI-powered platform.

Why use Copilot?

Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat does NOT does not remember the history of what you have previously asked and any data that you submit is not available to Microsoft and is not used to train the model. Copilot also does not have access to your Microsoft 365 data such as your email, OneDrive files, Teams data, etc. This version of Copilot enables faculty, staff, and students to experiment with a more secure generative AI tool compared to consumer versions of such as ChatGPT, Google Bard, and Bing Chat and similar tools.

Note: Using personal credentials will only grant access to the public version of Copilot, which does not offer enhanced data privacy features of The Chicago School’s Enterprise version. To ensure these security and privacy protections are enabled, you need to access Copilot with your Chicago School credentials.

How can I access and use Copilot?

Please review the “How to use Copilot” below for guidance on how to access and use Copilot:

How to Use Copilot

To access Copilot through a web browser, navigate to https://copilot.microsoft.com

How to log into Copilot:

Click the icon in the top right corner with an image of a person. Next, choose “sign in”.
Sign in with The Chicago School credentials.
If you are prompted to choose a Copilot experience, choose “go to Copilot for work”.

You are now signed into Copilot. To verify you are signed in, you’ll see your profile picture or initials in a circle in the top right.
Click “message Copilot” to start a new conversation with Copilot. It will not remember the context of the previous prompts when starting a new conversation.
This shield indicates that you are logged in and have enterprise data protection. Copilot is safe for use with university data labeled internal or public.
This info bubble also says that you are protected by enterprise data protection.
This icon opens a panel that displays your Copilot chat history. You can click on any conversation to go back to it or continue the conversation.

Accessing Copilot through the Microsoft Edge browser sidebar

Click on the Copilot logo at the top right of the sidebar. This will open up the prompt window. If you are not already signed in, click the sidebar and then click “Sign In” and enter your The Chicago School email address and password.

Make sure that you see the protected badge at the top of the window to confirm that you are logged in. You are now ready to submit prompts to Copilot.