The Gemini Working Group, a subgroup of the AI Technical Team, has created a collection of Google Gemini Gems. These AI assistants are pre-loaded with instructions, guidelines and resources available to assist faculty, staff and students with specialized tasks.
Key features
Customized workflows: Build specialized tools to automate administrative tasks, develop course content or support complex assignments.
Grounded in App State-specific resources: Attach department guidelines and resources directly to your assistant to get precise responses.
Easy sharing: Create a Gem once and replicate it to share with colleagues, departments or classmates.
Try out these Gemini Gems in your workflows, or use them as inspiration to create your own (instructions for building your custom Gems are included)!
General purpose gems
Google Doc/Sheet Assistant
Instant support to elevate your Google Workspace workflow. Draft content, rewrite text and match specific tone/style guidelines in Docs.
Build advanced formulas, set up pivot tables and summarize data in Sheets.
Prompt Architect — Design, refine and troubleshoot reliable AI prompts using a diagnose-first approach to optimize multi-step workflows, system roles and structured outputs.
Gems for students
Career Architect — Guided help for tailoring resumes and cover letters and a mock interview feature based on uploaded job descriptions.
Socratic Tutor and Critical Thinking Partner — A set of gems designed to guide problem-solving and build deep, conceptual understanding across all disciplines. Ideal for essays, policy analyses, ethical case studies and debates. Grounded in the Paul-Elder Critical Thinking model and Bloom’s Revised Taxonomy.
Project Research Assistant — Helps graduate students in database management navigate their end-of-semester project lifecycles.
Gems for instructors
Active Learning Architect — Transforms lectures into high-engagement, student-centered sessions by generating tailored micro-activities, active learning segments and real-time pulse checks. With built-in pivot strategies to instantly adjust pacing based on live student responses. Grounded in constructivist pedagogy and the ICAP framework.
Canvas Quiz Generator — Build import-ready quizzes for the Canvas LMS by uploading raw course materials and answering questions about parameters. Works with course materials across any subject, including STEM fields with complex notation and special characters.
Rubric Architect — Create rigorous, Canvas-ready rubrics tailored to university-level expectations.
Gems for staff
Feedback/Survey Response Parser — Get help making sense of open-ended feedback and survey data without getting bogged down in complex analytics. Upload feedback files or CSVs to instantly highlight recurring themes, sentiment trends, core strengths and actionable next steps in clear, plain language.
Stakeholder-Specific Communications — Transform raw notes into polished writing using custom knowledge sources and instructions tailored precisely to your department’s unique style, tone and formatting rules for consistent output every time.
Training Video Assistant — Transform pre-recorded MP4s or YouTube links into professional, custom-formatted documentation and extract key insights from multi-hour videos into detailed instruction sets ready for Canvas, Confluence or plain text.
Workload Planner — Turn team or personal notes and task exports (Jira, Google Chat, Meeting notes) into clean, copy-pasteable plans while surfacing hidden bottlenecks, context-switching overhead and unrealistic timelines to balance team capacity.
Oracle Database Administration (DBA) Assistant — Get execution-ready SQL*Plus/srvctl commands, risk-analyzed recovery protocols and Data Guard sync strategies for Oracle 19c RAC/RHEL 8 environments, built with strict safety guardrails for co-located nodes, RMAN restores, PDB lifecycles and TDE wallets.
Support
Gemini Working Group
Developers:
Lina Brown
Killian Daley
Michael Friese
Michelle Melton
Carson Patterson
Jeremy Wallace
Custom AI Solutions
Have an idea for a custom AI application, intelligent agent or process automation? Partner with the AI Technical Team to explore, design and build high-impact AI solutions for academic or operational use in your unit or department. Submit a Service or Software Request and select AI Projects from the Service or Software drop-down menu to share your idea.
About the AI Enablement Team
The AI Enablement Team was established by ITS in collaboration with our university partners to promote AI literacy, enhance teaching, learning and administrative efficiency, support research and foster innovation.
Gemini Gems
Gemini Gems