Each year, the Instructional Support Team highlights Trending Tech, a collection of free tools you can use to enhance online learning as an instructor.
For the 2023-2024, we're looking at AI tools, including:
- Chatbots
- Content Summarizers
- Multimedia Generators
- Teaching Aids
- AI Detection
- AI Directories
Chatbots
These text-based conversation apps help users through a messaging interface.
ChatGPT 3.5
is a generative AI platform that interacts with users in a conversational way. The dialogue format makes it possible for ChatGPT to answer follow-up questions, admit its mistakes, challenge incorrect premises, and reject inappropriate requests. Sign up for an account using your email. Once enrolled, choose Open ChatGPT 3.5 for a free account or Open ChatGPT 4.0 for $20 per month.
Microsoft CoPilot (Bing)
allows you ask questions, get complete answers, and chat with an AI assistant. Bing AI can also help you write content including poems, stories, and reports; or to create images based on your text input.
Google Gemini
is a large language model (LLM) chatbot developed by Google AI. It is trained on a massive dataset of text and code, and can generate text, translate languages, write various kinds of creative content, and answer your questions in an informative way.
Content Summarizers
Content summarizers automatically extract key points from content to create summaries.
Quillbot
is an online tool that uses artificial intelligence to help you improve your writing. You can use Quillbot to rephrase, summarize, check grammar, and avoid plagiarism in your text. Quillbot has different modes and features that let you customize and perfect writing according to your needs and preferences. Also, summarize, create citations, and translate text.
Go to Quillbot.com and sign up with an email address. Free to use with an upgrade to a premium version.
TammyAI
uses artificial intelligence to produce summaries of YouTube videos. Copy and paste a YouTube URL in the site and TammyAI will summarize the content.
Sign up at Tammy.ai. Free to use with a premium subscription also available.
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Multimedia Generators
Multimedia generators utilize artificial intelligence techniques to generate various forms of multimedia content such as: images, videos, music, and other visual or audio elements.
Canva
is already one of our Trending Tech tools but has recently added some AI features:
- Magic Write: AI text generator within the app.
- Docs to Decks: Turn content into presentation.
- Magic Eraser: Erase anything from an image.
- Magic Edit: Remove objects from an image and replace with anything.
- BG Remover: Remove a background from an image.
- Magic Design: Create templates with your media.
- Text to image: Type text and convert to an image.
Curipod
Create interactive lessons like polls, word clouds, open questions, drawings, and Q&A to capture student voices. Students will interact with the presentation content by signing in with a QR code or pin. AI generators will help you create the content.
Go to  and sign in with an email address. Free to use with upgrade plans available.
Tome
Build a presentation in seconds by using Tome's AI-powered presentation app. The slides tell stories and generate copy and images in seconds.
Go to and sign up for a free account. Upgrade plans available.
RunwayML
With 30+ AI magic tools, real-time video editing, collaboration, Runway is your next generation content creation suite in your browser. Text to video with Gen 2 now available.
Go to  and sign up using your email address to try for free. Upgrades available.
More tools:
-  - text to speech using AI
-  - create designs from templates and AI
-  - all in one video and podcast editor using AI
-  - text to image generator
- - upload an image to a website to erase unwanted items in an image
- - extract clips from your long videos
- - a medium for presenting ideas through text, presentation, or website
Teaching Aids
Teaching aids support and enhance the teaching and learning process. These aids are designed to assist teachers in creating learning materials and assessments.
Roshi AI
allows you to create learning material from anything online. Pick any article or website to use, then turn it into a lesson with summaries, vocabulary, and questions with a single click.
Go to Roshi.ai and sign in with an email account. Free to use with upgrades available.
Teacherbot AI
AI-powered online teaching tool that allows teachers to create resources quickly and efficiently for any level and subject.
Go to  and sign in with an email address. Free to use with upgrades available.
More tools:
-  - convert notes into quizzes and flashcards
- - capture any process and turn it into a step-by-step interactive walkthrough
AI Detector(s)
AI text detectors analyze and interpret text data to check the similarity of text content.
Turnitin
Turnitin provides AI writing detection as part of its , which is free for UL faculty and accessible within Moodle.
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AI Directories
AI Directories websites provide an organized collection of resources, tools, platforms, and information related to AI.