Empower your work and student engagement with AI resources
VCU is excited to offer faculty and students a range of AI-powered tools to support teaching, learning, and professional development across disciplines. With access to Microsoft Co-Pilot, Zoom AI features, and the advanced AI tools integrated into Adobe, Google Workspace, Harmonize Learning, and Peerceptiv, our community can harness cutting-edge technology to boost productivity, enhance creativity, and foster engagement.
Through these resources, VCU is committed to helping faculty design innovative learning experiences that prepare students with critical digital skills for success in today’s evolving landscape. Our established AI use policies for faculty and students ensure responsible, ethical, and effective integration of these tools in academia.
Ready to explore how AI can enhance your teaching and support your students? With Co-Pilot, Adobe’s AI suite, and other powerful tools, you can streamline tasks, personalize feedback, and develop engaging, interactive learning materials.
AI Tools at VCU
Microsoft Copilot
VCU has licensed Microsoft Copilot, a generative artificial intelligence chatbot for all faculty, staff, and students to use for free. Navigate to go.vcu.edu/copilot and login with your VCU email address and password. Copilot is built with the same security, privacy, and compliance standards as other Microsoft products. Your prompts and Copilot’s responses are:
- Not available to other customers.
- Not used to train or improve any third-party products or services (such as OpenAI models)
- Not used to train or improve Microsoft AI models
Zoom AI Companion
VCU Zoom users have access to various useful features powered by artificial intelligence via the "AI Companion" icon in the Meeting toolbar. AI Companion uses artificial intelligence to power meeting summary, in-meeting questioning, and smart recording features in meetings and webinars. Log into your account page at vcu.zoom.us and go to “Settings > AI Companion” to enable any or all of the AI-powered features.
Adobe Creative Cloud
VCU employees can get access to Adobe Acrobat DC or the full Adobe Creative Cloud suite through their department. For details on requesting an Adobe Creative Cloud account based on your role at VCU, please visit the VCU Adobe Creative Cloud webpage. The Adobe Creative Cloud student subscription is now included in the VCU student software bundle for all currently-enrolled VCU students. To learn more, visit: Student Adobe Licenses.
Harmonize Learning
Use AI Discussion and Collaboration tools in Harmonize to enrich online course discussions, streamline the assessment process, and engage students like never before. Harmonize is integrated into Canvas for all courses to help you continue raising outcomes! Learn more in the Harmonize Knowledge Base.
Peerceptiv
VCU provides Peerceptiv integrated into Canvas, to add more student collaboration and engagement to your classes using peer learning. The Assignment Creation Wizard can get you on your way. Features include structured group learning, learner guidance for self-improvement, and more authentic assessment options. Peerceptiv is designed to support authentic assessment at any scale with research-based peer learning. To learn more, explore Peerceptiv Resources.
Google Gemini
VCU provides access to Google Gemini, a generative chatbot for engaging in dialogue. To access it, sign in with your VCU credentials. Other popular Public generative AI tools offer exciting possibilities for our learning, teaching, work, and personal lives. Some common tools in use are Google Gemini, OpenAI ChatGPT, DALL-E, Midjourney, etc. These systems can generate content, provide insights, summarize, and help streamline our tasks.
AI Guidance at VCU
We’re excited to support your use of generative AI and offer the following guidelines to help you navigate these powerful tools effectively at VCU. These guidelines draw from existing university policies and standards, ensuring a consistent and thoughtful approach to using and acquiring generative AI tools. Your feedback is always welcome, and we’ll continue to refine our guidelines as technology evolves.
Guidelines for the Use of Generative AI Tools
To help you use generative AI responsibly and securely, we've outlined essential guidelines for faculty and staff. These policies ensure that your use of AI aligns with VCU’s standards for data protection, academic integrity, and responsible technology integration.
Library Guide
The VCU Library Guide to Generative Artificial Intelligence provides information for VCU students, faculty and staff on the topic of generative artificial intelligence tools so that they may assess practical and ethical issues relevant to their work within an academic setting.
VCU AI Guidebook
The VCU AI Guidebook is an excellent resource for how AI is being implemented at VCU. It also provides and nice overview of the AI backstory as well further policy and resources.
CTLE Generative AI Resource Tool
The VCU Center for Teaching and Learning provides Teaching Guidelines to support you in adopting AI into your teaching practice.