Generative AI and Copilot: How to Use GenAI?

In this module, you will:

• Discover what GenAI ECU provides Students
• Understand the general principles of how to use Generative AI as a student
• How to use Generative AI to:
  • Understand your assessment topics
  • Plan your assessment responses, and
  • Help define research strategies for your assessments
• You will also learn how to acknowledge and reference your usage of Generative AI, and
• Find Generative AI services and tools.

When you finish the module, you will be able to:

• Explain ECU's APPROACH on using Generative AI as an ethical and responsible part of your study process
• Use Generative AI to:
  • Understand, explore, and review topics
  • Plan your assessment structure, and help you schedule your study, and
  • Organise your research strategies to use in ECU Library Search, and manage your readings
• You will be able to identify when (and why) to acknowledge your use of Generative AI
• How to reference Generative AI when directly using the output, and
• Find Generative AI services and tools, and identify their strengths and weaknesses for differing use cases

What’s in this module?

1. Access Generative AI with Microsoft Copilot
2. General principles of using Generative AI
3. Understanding your topic using Generative AI
4. Plan your assessments with Generative AI
5. Organise your research using Generative AI
6. Acknowledge and reference Generative AI
7. Sources of Generative AI services and tools

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We’re taking a collaborative approach to how we manage the use of GenAI and would like to hear your thoughts, concerns and questions. This will help us develop the right information and support for you.

Let us know what you think about this issue via this email: library@ecu.edu.au

This page last updated 7 September 2023