Yale provides access to several Generative AI platforms as part of its commitment to equitable access, experimentation, and data privacy. For help understanding how to use a specific tool in your teaching, including new functionalities in the Clarity platform, please contact us!
Clarity
Yale’s custom built Clarity platform is an interface for chatting with selected frontier LLMs such as various versions of ChatGPT (4o and mini) and Claude Sonnet 4. Available Model choices update regularly. Several custom chatbots are also available. Users cannot currently customize their own chatbot or call Clarity via API, but such functionality may arrive in the future.
Copilot
Microsoft Copilot is a free, Yale approved and FERPA compliant AI Assistant with image generation and code interpreting abilities. You can also create custom agents with copilot studio and share with selected users (your class) or the entire Yale community. A paid subscription version of copilot (M365) integrates directly into word, outlook, and other Microsoft apps.
Gemini
Google’s Gemini for Education suite includes Guided Learning for step-by-step concept explanations, custom quiz and flashcard generation, study guides, Deep Research capabilities, and NotebookLM. You will need a Yale NetID and Eliapps account (Yale’s version of the google suite) if you do not have one already. Please complete the ITS request form to receive an EliApps account.
Canvas AI Features
Canvas @ Yale has enabled a number of native AI features that are now available in Canvas. These AI features have been reviewed by Yale’s Data Governance Council to ensure their safe use by instructors and students in their course work. These AI features are all controlled by the instructor at the individual Canvas course level, and are disabled by default.
Bots++ (Ed Discussion)
Bots++ is an AI feature of the Canvas integrated tool, Ed Discussion. Bots++ allows instructors to share an AI chatbot with students in Ed Discussion to answer questions and collaborate in discussions. You can select from a list of Yale owned LLMs while setting your own system prompts, uploading knowledge, and configuring AI chat settings for your Ed Discussion course.
A Complete List of Yale’s AI Tools and Resources
Yale has a robust list of tools provided to our community to meet all your AI task needs.
Enabling Equitable Generative AI Access at Yale
Learn more about Yale’s AI strategy from this Educause article written by Yale ITS leaders.
Yale’s Center for Research Computing
YCRC has powerful computing resources (GPU clusters) available to all Yale Researchers. They can help create a custom environment for your course where you can deploy and train models. Check out their Getting started support page, explore the new AI Initiative supported Bouchet Cluster, or schedule a consultation with their team.
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