The Google Gemini web application is an AI assistant that offers multimodal capabilities, meaning it can understand and generate text, images, audio and code. It's designed to be an interactive AI assistant that can help with various tasks and is free and available to all faculty, staff and students.
The Google Gemini app is connected to Google’s search engine and includes Deep Research, helpful for exploring complex topics and coming back with easy-to-read reports, and Gems, customized AI chat agents that you can create to help you with specific tasks or topics.
Despite the connection to Google, the Gemini app does not integrate with Google Suite (Gmail, Docs, etc). ITS is continuing to investigate additional costs and potential security risks associated with these integrations.
Security & Support: Why we encourage use of this platform
To keep App State data secure and reduce university risk, log in to Gemini with your App State username and password to enable the following protections:
Your prompts and responses are not saved or used to train the underlying large language models, and
Chat data sent to and from Gemini is encrypted.
At this time, this application is currently approved for publicly available information or data types only and is still under review for additional data types by our Office of Information Security.
Learn more
Review our Knowledge Base article on How to Access Gemini.
Explore upcoming professional development workshops hosted by Academic Technologies to enhance your skills and use Gemini and other AI-powered tools responsibly.
Google Support & Training:
LinkedIn Learning courses (free and accessible to all employees and students):
Questions
Contact the ITS Academic Technologies team using the Service or Software Request Support Ticket (object: Google Gemini).
App State announces the Google Gemini web application, an AI assistant, for free, campus use.
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