Chat with Gemini is now available with your St. Edward's account. Here's what to know.
What is Chat with Gemini?
Google Gemini is a generative AI tool built into Google Workspace, which provides your St. Edward's email, calendar, and Drive storage. Chat with Gemini is a standalone, web-based tool that lets you prompt Gemini with questions, requests, and more.
Chat with Gemini is available to all faculty, staff, and students as of January 6, 2025. To access it, go to https://gemini.google.com/app or select it from the Google Apps menu (9 dots on the upper right) in your St. Edward's Google account.
How do I use Chat with Gemini? What can it do?
Gemini is similar to other generative AI tools like ChatGPT or Microsoft Copilot. According to Google, you can use Gemini to...
- Brainstorm ideas, develop a plan, or find different ways to get things done
- Get a quick, easy-to-understand summary of more complex topics
- Create first drafts of outlines, emails, blog posts, poems, and much more
I'm new to AI! Give me some examples!
Google has the answers! Review their resources on how to use Chat with Gemini, including example prompts, uses, and cool things you might not think of.
We enabled Chat with Gemini to give everyone a way to learn about and build capacity with generative AI. Use of these tools helps inform our decisions. Have something you'd like to do with AI? Let us know!
What about data and security?
When you use Gemini with your St. Edward's account, you're covered by our data agreement with Google, so your prompts won't be used for advertising or to train other AI models. With that in mind, use it like any other tool on the Web and don't share sensitive information.
- Don’t rely on responses from Gemini (or other AI tools!) as medical, legal, financial or other professional advice.
- Responses from Gemini Apps don’t represent Google’s views and should not be attributed to Google.
For more information, see our article about security and data with AI.
Can I use Gemini for my class?
For academic or other school work, be sure to check your syllabus for each class to see the guidelines on using AI tools like Gemini. If you're not sure, ask your professor!
Additionally, if a student uses output – “information, ideas or phrasing of another”– from an AI tool and does not cite the tool, then its use may be considered plagiarism.