Additional Resources Available to You

Discover how AI can boost productivity, creativity, and learning. Explore resources like generative AI tools—Microsoft Copilot and Adobe Firefly—along with academic integrity solutions like Turnitin. Plus, find KSU-specific resources designed to help all Owls soar into the future.

IMPORTANT: Refer to the Guidelines for AI use at KSU before using AI for any university related tasks.

Students: Always check your syllabus before using AI for academic work. 

AI Tools Currently Available Through KSU

  • Microsoft Copilot is an AI-driven assistant built into Microsoft 365 applications like Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook. It boosts productivity by helping users create content, analyze data, build presentations, and manage emails using simple, natural language commands.

    For KSU students, faculty, and staff, Microsoft Copilot is the only AI tool that guarantees data protection. To keep your information secure, you must log in at copilot.microsoft.com using your KSU email and password. Ensure the Enterprise Data Protection icon appears in the top-right corner—this confirms your data is encrypted and never used to train the AI.

    • Recommended Tasks: Drafting documents in Word, analyzing data in Excel, creating presentations in PowerPoint, managing emails in Outlook, automating routine tasks across Microsoft 365 apps. 
    • Microsoft Copilot FAQ

  • Adobe Firefly is a family of creative generative AI models that allow users to generate images, text effects, and other creative content from simple text prompts. It integrates seamlessly with Adobe Creative Cloud applications, making it a powerful tool for designers and content creators. 

    Adobe trains its Firefly model on licensed and public domain content to ensure it’s safe for commercial applications.

    Adobe Firefly is available as part of Adobe Creative Cloud; pricing varies based on subscription plans. Adobe Creative Cloud is available on computers in KSU classrooms and labs. Additionally, KSU employees have access to Creative Cloud on desktopsoftware.kennesaw.edu.               

    • Recommended Tasks: Generating images from text prompts, creating unique text effects, enhancing creativity in design projects. 
    • Adobe Firefly FAQ

  • Turnitin is an academic integrity tool that uses AI to detect plagiarism and ensure the originality of student submissions. It is widely used in educational institutions to maintain academic standards.

AI Resources at KSU

The Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning (CETL) has compiled a list of resources, including trainings and course, articles, and videos.

The Digital Learning Innovations (DLI) unit provides resources for faculty to learn how to utilize Generative AI and stay productive, as well as for supporting instructional practices.

Consult the University Libraries for a collection of AI tools and tutorials to improve the literature searching and review process.

The Norman J. Radow College of Humanities and Social Sciences (RCHSS) published a Generative Artificial Intelligence Toolkit.

University Information Technology Services (UITS) provides workshops on Copilot and other AI tools. Check out this page for a complete list of UITS's technology workshops. 

Interested in diving deep into the world of AI? Check out KSU's Master of Science in Artificial Intelligence!

Additional AI Tools

These tools are not supported by KSU, nor is their use endorsed by the university. They are listed here as informational resources to help you explore the exciting world of AI. Please use these tools at your own discretion and always consult with your instructor or advisor before incorporating them into your academic work. 

  • beautiful.ai helps create presentation slides in minutes. Find a template that suits your need, add your content, and watch it generate a presentation in seconds. It also integrates with PowerPoint.

    • Recommended Tasks: Creating slides for any type of information, create infographics, charts, timelines, projects plans and roadmaps.
    • Price: Subscription-based, starting at $12/month.
    • beautiful.ai FAQ

  • ChatGPT is an advanced language model that can assist with writing, research, and creative tasks by generating human-like text. It is widely used for brainstorming, drafting documents, and automating repetitive writing tasks.

    • Recommended Tasks: Drafting emails, generating content ideas, answering queries, tutoring in various subjects. 
    • ChatGPT FAQ

  • ChatPDF is like ChatGPT but instead of accessing the world wide web, you can tailor what kind of information it accesses by uploading PDFs. You can upload multiple PDF documents and have a conversation based on their content. You can upload PDFs and chat in any language!

    • Recommended Tasks: Studying for exams, summarize content of scientific papers, find cited sources in PDFs.
    • Price: Free.
    • ChatPDF FAQ

  • Connected Papers is a unique, visual tool to help researchers and applied scientists find and explore papers relevant to their field of work.

    • Recommended Tasks: Get a visual overview of a new academic field, create a bibliography for a thesis, find relevant prior and derivative works.
    • Price: Free with limitations; paid options for additional usage.
    • Connected Papers FAQ

  • Consensus is an academic search engine, powered by AI, but grounded in scientific research. It uses language models (LLMs) and purpose-built search technology (Vector search) to surface the most relevant papers. 

    • Recommended Tasks: Search through published research papers, conducting a literature review, fact-checking.
    • Price: Free with limitations; paid options for additional usage.
    • Consensus FAQ

  • DALL·E is an AI tool that generates images from textual descriptions, making it a powerful asset for visual content creation and creative projects.

    • Recommended Tasks: Creating custom visuals for presentations, marketing materials, or artistic projects.
    • Price: Free with limitations; paid options for additional usage.
    • DALL·E FAQ

  • Descript is an AI video editor. Type, drag-and-drop, or copy-and-paste to create polished videos.

    • Recommended Tasks: Video editing, podcasts, screen recordings, captions.
    • Price: Free with limitations; paid options for additional usage.
    • Descript FAQ

  • GitHub Copilot is a code completion and automatic programming tool. 

    • Recommended Tasks: Write code, fix erros in code, receive suggestions for code.
    • Price: Subscription-based, starting at $10/month.
    • GitHub Copilot FAQ

  • Google Gemini is an AI model developed by Google to process and generate natural language. Integrated across Google’s ecosystem, it enhances search functionality, supports content creation, and powers productivity tools, making tasks more efficient and intuitive.

    • Recommended Tasks: Enhancing search queries, generating content in Google Workspace, providing smart suggestions in Google products, automating workflows. 
    • Google Gemini FAQ

  • Grammarly is an AI-powered writing assistant that helps improve grammar, spelling, and style. It is ideal for academic writing, professional communication, and everyday use.

    • Recommended Tasks: Proofreading academic papers, enhancing writing style, ensuring grammatical accuracy in emails and reports. 
    • Grammarly FAQ

  • MidJourney is an AI tool that generates images from textual descriptions. It is particularly popular among artists and designers for creating unique, AI-generated artwork. The platform offers a simple interface where users can input descriptive text to generate visuals that can be used for creative projects.

    • Recommended Tasks: Generating artwork from text descriptions, exploring creative visual concepts, creating digital illustrations.
    • Price: Subscription-based, starting at $10/month.
    • MidJourney FAQ

  • Open AI Codex translates natural language to code.

    • Recommended Tasks: Generating artwork from text descriptions, exploring creative visual concepts, creating digital illustrations.
    • Price: Subscription-based, starting at $2.50 per 1M input tokens (1,000 tokens is about 750 words).
    • Open AI Codex Quickstart

  • PopAi allows you to chat, and write, as well as create visual tools like presentations and mind maps.

    • Recommended Tasks: Summarize PDF adn other long documents, create mind maps, create presentation slides.
    • Price: Free for basic use; paid upgrade options available.
    • PopAi FAQ

  • Perplexity AI is a conversational platform built to tackle complex questions by gathering and summarizing information from multiple sources. It provides detailed responses, making it a valuable tool for research and gathering insights.

    • Recommended Tasks: Conducting in-depth research, answering complex academic or technical questions, summarizing articles and documents, exploring new topics. 
    • Perplexity AI FAQ

  • Pictory is an AI video creation platform.

    • Recommended Tasks: Videos for course content, add captions, edit videos.
    • Price: Paid plans starting at $19/month.
    • Pictory Help Center

  • Prezi is a presentation tool that includes AI capabilities to produce dynamic and visually appealing presentations. It provides AI suggestions for layout, transitions, and content flow, enhancing the design and storytelling of presentations.

    • Recommended Tasks: Creating interactive presentations, visual storytelling, and designing dynamic slides for educational and professional purposes.
    • Prezi FAQ

  • Quizlet uses AI to enhance learning through personalized study tools like flashcards, quizzes, and games. Its AL-driven features help students create efficient study plans and adapt to individual learning styles.

    • Recommended Tasks: Creating flashcards, personalized quizzes, tracking learning progress, and preparing for exams.
    • Quizlet FAQ

  • Scholarcy helps to make your research more efficient and productive.

    • Recommended Tasks: Save and organize academic sources, create bibliographies, summarize long documents, analyze research.
    • Price: Free for basic use; premium plan available.
    • Scholarcy Help

  • SlidesAI creates professional slides from text or just a topic and integrates with Google Slides.

    • Recommended Tasks: Create presentations.
    • Price: Free for basic use; pro and premium plans available.
    • SlidesAI FAQ

  • Suno's Bark AI is an innovative text-to-speech and generative audio model that allows users to create natural-sounding speech and complex audio compositions from text prompts. It is particularly useful for generating voiceovers, creating audio content, and experimenting with AI-driven sound design.

    • Recommended Tasks: Creating voiceovers, generating podcasts and audio content, developing AI-driven soundscapes.
    • Price: Free for basic use; enterprise pricing available.
    • Suno FAQ

  • Synthesia is an AI-driven video generation platform that allows users to create professional videos using AI avatars. It is ideal for creating training videos, presentations, and marketing content.

    • Recommended Tasks: Producing educational videos, creating personalized video messages, developing marketing materials.
    • Price: Paid plans starting at $30/month.
    • Synthesia FAQ

  • WriteSonic is an AI engagement platform for all content creation needs that houses multiple tools to create code, chatbots, generate images, and write content.

    • Recommended Tasks: Create content for websites, gain SEO insights, real-time web search, summarize pages.
    • Price: Free for basic use; enterprise pricing available.
    • Writesonic Guide