AI tools at ASU

Discover an evolving catalog of ASU-approved AI tools designed to support learning, teaching, research, and daily work. This page helps you explore the AI tools available through ASU, understand who can use them, and learn how to get started. Explore this continuously updated page so you can easily find what you have access to and how to use it.

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AI tools

CreateAI Builder
Available to: Faculty & Staff
No Cost

Create and share custom AI experiences using your own instructions, knowledge, workflows, and access to more than 50 large language models—all within ASU’s governed environment.

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ChatGPT Edu
Available to: Students, Faculty & Staff
No Cost

OpenAI's conversational AI assistant for brainstorming, analyzing documents, summarizing information, exploring complex topics, and writing or debugging code with Codex.

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Claude
Available to: Faculty & Staff
Subscription required

Anthropic's conversational AI assistant for everyday tasks, writing and editing, coding, creating interactive artifacts, and supporting complex, multi-step work.

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Google Gemini
Available to: Students, Faculty & Staff
No Cost

Google’s conversational AI assistant for generating content, analyzing information, conducting research, and creating text, images and other multimedia content.

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Gemini Notebook
Available to: Students, Faculty & Staff
No Cost

Google's AI-powered thinking and research assistant that uses your uploaded documents to generate summaries, answer questions, and create content such as audio overviews and presentations.

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Copilot Chat
Available to: Students, Faculty & Staff
No Cost

Microsoft's conversational AI assistant for brainstorming ideas, summarizing information, generating images, assisting with Outlook emails and meetings, and more.

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Zoom AI
Available to: Students, Faculty & Staff
No Cost

Zoom AI features bring an intelligent assistant directly into your Zoom app to help you ask in-meeting questions, generate meeting notes, and create detailed summaries seamlessly.

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Slack AI
Available to: Students, Faculty & Staff
No Cost

A suite of built-in AI features within Slack with a dedicated Slackbot, recaps, AI translations, AI search and more.

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Google AI Pro for Education
Available to: Faculty & Staff
Subscription required

Integrate Gemini into Google Workspace apps like Docs, Sheets, Slides, and Gmail to help with writing, summarizing, analyzing information, or creating presentations. 

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Microsoft 365 Copilot
Available to: Faculty & Staff
Subscription required

Bring Microsoft Copilot into your M365 apps, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook to assist with writing, data analysis, presentations, email, meetings, and daily workflows.

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Additional AI-related tools and resources

Using AI responsibly

FAQs

While the interface may look similar, ASU-provisioned AI tools operate under contractual agreements that protect university data—specifically prohibiting vendors from using ASU data to train their models. In contrast, publicly available AI tools (such as free or personal accounts) lack these protections. Consequently, when conducting university business, public tools should only be used with publicly available data.

Feature configurations may also differ from public versions to meet university requirements, and access varies based on account type, ASU role, or license level. Furthermore, AI providers often deploy new capabilities to personal or commercial accounts before making them available in enterprise or education environments. ASU thoroughly reviews the security and data-sharing practices of any new feature—particularly those connecting to external systems—before enabling it for the broader university community.

Signing in with ASU access provides the enhanced security controls and features built into the university's provider agreement, including stronger data privacy and capabilities not found in public tools. ASU-provided AI tools don't use your prompts or data to train the vendor's models, and they come with privacy guardrails that personal or public accounts don't have.

For many of these tools, you have a choice between the personal/public experience and the ASU enterprise experience. There are benefits to choosing the ASU-provided experience, including but not limited to:

  • They're already paid for. Many of these tools are provided by ASU. If you ever hit usage limits on a personal account, you can fall back to your ASU-provided account where available.
  • Some classes or assignments may require it. For example, ChatGPT Edu chats can only be shared with other ASU ChatGPT Edu account holders, so an instructor may ask you to use your ASU account specifically for group work or assignments that involve sharing chats.
  • It's a shared baseline for the tools everyone has. For the no-cost tools available to all students, faculty, and staff, instructors and collaborators can assume you have access too.

Public AI tools may only be used with publicly available ASU data. Do not enter internal, FERPA-protected, sensitive, or highly sensitive university information into a personal or public account unless you have been explicitly granted permission to do so from authorized personnel; that data must stay within ASU-approved tools. This applies to faculty and staff, and also to students working with faculty using ASU data. Use the Data Classification Tool to accurately check your data's classification level.

Using a personal account for ASU-related work means you are assuming that risk yourself, since personal accounts aren't covered by ASU's contractual data protections.

Sign in using the ASU credentials and link provided on the tool page. Many tools also display an ASU logo, workspace name or organization indicator when you are using the university version.

Because each tool displays this information differently, check its tool page for specific instructions.

Not every ASU-provided tool is approved for every type of university information. Before entering ASU data, review the tool’s data-use information and ASU’s Data Classification, Protection and Retention standards.

Do not enter restricted, regulated sensitive or highly sensitive information unless the tool is specifically approved for that type of data and you are authorized to use it. If you are ever unsure what the classification of your data is, contact #data-handling-tools in slack or [email protected] in email.

“No Cost” means that the service is included with your standard ASU account access. You do not need to purchase an individual subscription to use the ASU-provided license. ASU funds access to these tools so eligible students, faculty and staff can use them for teaching, learning, research and daily work.

Tools marked Subscription required require a department-sponsored license. Visit the tool page for request instructions and approval requirements.

Students that require a subscription license must go through a sponsor. A faculty or staff member can request a department-sponsored license on a student's behalf by submitting a request through ServiceNow for the specific tool that requires a subscription.

As AI continues to evolve, instructors are encouraged to experiment thoughtfully and use AI in ways that align with courses and learning objectives.

Leverage the Office of the University of Provost website where you can find resources to help instructors integrate generative AI into their courses.

For support with AI tools, check out the resources below:

Slack Support Channels

  • #ai-support: Gemini, Gemini Notebook, Google AI Pro, ChatGPT Edu, Claude, Copilot Chat, and Microsoft 365 Copilot
  • #createai-community-hub: CreateAI Builder (faculty & staff only)
  • #zoom-support: Zoom
  • #slack-support: Slack

     

Access, Login & Account Support

  • ASU Experience Center: Call 480-965-6500 or 1-855-278-5080 for technical or login assistance.

Self-Service & Additional Resources

  • ASU AI Help Page: Access workshops, tutorials, consultations, and tool guides.
  • ServiceNow Knowledge Base: Search the tool name in ServiceNow for detailed KB articles (faculty & staff only).
  • Tool Documentation: Visit individual tool landing pages for linked user guides and vendor resources (if available).

Get support

For information about faculty, staff and student resources, including workshops, tutorials, toolkits and consultations, please visit our AI Help page.