Artificial Intelligence (AI) Resources
Introduction
We are pleased to bring AI offerings to our campus community. The AI resources below are available to UIC students, faculty, and staff to support learning, teaching, research, and productivity.
Responsible Use of AI
Gaining Access to UIC AI Tools
At UIC, AI tools will not be enabled by default whenever possible. Instead, individuals who wish to use the available university-supported AI tools may opt in. Once the opt-in request has been processed, the individual will be able to engage with the currently available AI tools described below. Note that some tools require additional license purchase.
Approved AI Tools at UIC
AI tools help with everyday work like drafting emails, summarizing documents, brainstorming ideas and doing light research. The list of AI tools available to the UIC community is ever increasing.
Training and Learning Resources
LinkedIn Learning
In addition to offering AI-powered coaching and role-play features, LinkedIn Learning also offers numerous courses on various AI topics, including:
- AI literacy
- Prompt engineering
- Productivity
- Responsible AI use
- AI concepts and techniques (like GANs and transformers)
- Applications of AI across various industries
Google Accelerator Certification Courses
UIC’s Google AI for Education Accelerator Program supports teaching, learning, research, and academic work across the university. The program provides faculty and students with equitable access to university-supported AI tools while helping them integrate these technologies thoughtfully and responsibly into their work.
AI Workshops
LTS will be offering customized workshops designed for the integration of Generative AI applications in educational settings.
These workshops will emphasize hands-on experiences, concentrating on the practical implementation of Generative AI within a college or department, and focus on utilizing Generative AI to enhance communication, foster student engagement, design lessons, and generate content effectively.
Guidance on AI Assignments for UIC Faculty
UIC’s AI Teaching & Learning Advisory Committee compiled assignments from faculty that represented possible ways of incorporating AI into coursework and classroom activities. These assignments were discussed and revised before being compiled here as a resource for faculty across UIC’s colleges and departments. Each assignment, while specific to a discipline, has the potential to be adapted for other courses and programs.
Research Support
ACER conducts workshops to introduce the UIC community to GenAI tools and techniques by providing shared language and understanding of GenAI functionality, demonstrating practical insights of its applications, and mastering effective prompting techniques.
This will be a low code or no-code introduction to GenAI. Moreover, we’ll explore the available GenAI tools at UIC and how to seamlessly utilize them to improve productivity.
The UIC AI Advisory Groups
Several advisory groups exist to help guide the use of artificial intelligence at UIC.
AI News at UIC
Get Support
As with all emerging technologies, AI changes constantly. Today, it is a tool that can augment and support many of your workflows, but we encourage you to use with caution and validate all its outputs. UIC does not control or see any of the specific answers and can’t guarantee accuracy from the tools.
If you encounter a significant, unexpected, or problematic response, please share your experience with security@uic.edu.