A question was asked during the AI Community of Practice presession lightning round about which AI products faculty, staff, and students have access to through their Harding accounts.
I emailed the Harding IS&T Department, which replied that faculty, staff, and students have access to Google Gemini and NotebookLM. Both can be accessed through the Google waffle icon at the top right of your desktop.
NotebookLM and Gemini: AI tools from Google that serve different purposes.
NotebookLM is a research and note-taking assistant that is focused on your uploaded documents.
Top features:
- Summarizing documents, reports, and other sources
- Question and answer-based interaction with uploaded documents
- Creating videos from uploaded documents
- Creating podcasts from uploaded documents
- Creating mind maps and relational charts
- Creation of study guides
- Multi-document analysis
- Focused on increasing productivity and efficiency across many fields
Google Gemini
Gemini is a multimodal large language model (LLM) that can understand and generate responses based on multiple types of data, including text, images, audio, and video.
Gemini, when used with a Google Workspace account, like harding.edu accounts, will not save your data or use it for model training.
Top uses:
Drafting – creating first drafts of various content, including emails, blog posts, and outlines.
- Summarization – quickly and easily summarize long documents and emails.
- Translation – translate text between multiple languages.
- Brainstorming – help generate ideas and develop plans for different projects.
- Email management – summarize emails, find specific information within your inbox, and help draft responses.
- Calendar Management
- Task Management
- Note Taking – summarize meeting notes and help with organizing information
- Research Assistance – synthesize information from multiple sources and help with research projects.
- Trend Analysis – analyze data and identify trends
- Image Generation – generate images based on text prompts
- Music Recommendations – create personalized playlists based on your preferences
- Travel planning
- Education – agentic AI, such as Gemini Gems, can serve as tutors in every discipline.
- Integration with Google Apps – Gemini is integrated with the Google Workspace, which allows users to access its features within apps like Gmail, Google Docs, Google Sheets, and many other apps.
- John Boone