As part of its ongoing efforts to support effective teaching, learning, and scholarly practice, Concordia University, St. Paul (CSP) provides access to a set of Generative AI tools for students, faculty, and staff. Generative AI refers to computational systems capable of producing new content—such as text, images, or code—in response to user prompts.

These tools are intended to complement academic and professional work by supporting inquiry, creativity, and skill development. While access varies by role, CSP expects to broaden its Microsoft license coverage in January. The overview below summarizes the tools currently available through the university's licensed platforms.

1. Google Gemini  Generative AI in Google Workspace
(Included with Google Workspace Educational Fundamentals)

• Gemini (The AI Chatbot): This powerful, secure chatbot can be accessed directly by all users at the Gemini website (https://gemini.google.com/) using their CSP account. It can assist with brainstorming, summarizing complex research papers, or generating flashcards and study guides from uploaded documents.
• Gemini Notebook LM: This is an AI-powered research and writing assistant that serves as a personalized AI expert based on your own uploaded source materials. You can chat with it to summarize complex documents, generate ideas, and create audio overviews, all within a private and secure environment where your data is not used to train public AI models.

2. Microsoft Copilot  Chat & Generative AI Features
(Included with Microsoft A3 Licenses)

• Microsoft Copilot Chat (The AI Chatbot): Available as a secure web chat, this tool provides real-time, web-grounded answers. Your use of the tool with your CSP account provides enterprise data protection.

3. Grammarly
(Included with Grammarly Enterprise License)

• Grammarly's Generative AI Assistance: Grammarly goes beyond basic grammar checking to offer generative AI features like composing, rewriting, and ideating. This assistance is compatible with various desktop applications and websites.
• New Grammarly's AI Agents (AI Grader, Plagiarism Checker, AI Detector, Citation Finder, Humanizer, Reader Reactions, Expert Review, Paraphaser, Grammarly Proofreader: Users have access to advanced agents like AI Grader (which provides rubric-aligned feedback) or Expert Review (which provides subject-matter expert-inspired writing suggestions).  These are found in the Docs section of Grammarly online

4. Zoom AI Companion
(Included with Zoom Enterprise License)

• Zoom AI Companion: This generative AI assistant is built directly into your Zoom meetings and allows for real-time and post-meeting assistance. It is free for users under our Enterprise license.

5.  My Courses (D2L Brightspace) “Lumi” AI tools (Available to all instructors)

• Generate assignment ideas – use the Lumi generative AI tool to generate assignment ideas based on course content and aligned with a particular level of Bloom's Taxonomy.

• Create formative knowledge checks – use the Lumi AI tool to generate non-graded formative practice questions to be shared with students.

• Generate discussion topic ideas – use Lumi to generate discussion starters based on existing course content.

• Create quiz questions – use Lumi to generate quiz questions.

Additional Lumi AI tools will become available over the coming years.