Audience: faculty, staff, graduate assistants, student employees
ChatGPT Overview
ChatGPT supports learning, research, and professional productivity by providing conversational answers, content generation, and brainstorming assistance. Unlike general search engines, ChatGPT allows interactive, context-aware conversations. It can simplify complex information, provide writing and productivity support, and serve as a study or teaching aid. Use it to support coursework, lesson planning, projects or professional tasks. A University of Arkansas ChatGPT license provides integration with your UARK credentials for secure login and collaboration with other UARK accounts in the University of Arkansas OpenAI Workspace.
- ChatGPT Edu Base (Standard User): $120/year
- ChatGPT Edu Advanced Thinking Models (Power User): $240/year
Access ChatGPT
Note: Departments must purchase an OpenAI license for faculty and staff to gain access to the University of Arkansas workspace.
Process to gain single sign-on (SSO) access for your UARK credentials
- Request access
Click the Request AI Tools button on the right, and complete and submit the request form.
- Wait for approvals
Your request must be reviewed and approved by several designated approvers.
- Invitation triggered by IT Services
Once approved, an IT staff member will trigger an official invitation email from Chat GPT.
IMPORTANT: If you already use your @UARK account for a personal ChatGPT account, see ChatGPT: Transfer personal account to Edu account before accepting email invitation
- Check your email
Open the invitation email and click the link provided to activate your ChatGPT Edu license.
- Sign in with your UARK email and password.
After completing the activation step, you will see the option to log in with your UARK credentials when accessing ChatGPT.
Once you accept the invitation, you can access OpenAI ChatGPT Edu from a web browser or mobile device.
Web App (Desktop)
After you have accepted the ChatGPT Edu invitation from IT Services (See above, Process to gain SSO access), you'll be able to log into the web app using your @uark.edu account:
- Visit chat.openai.com.
- Sign in using your @uark.edu credentials (via single sign-on).
- You will be redirected to your ChatGPT educational license dashboard.
Mobile App
After you have accepted the ChatGPT Edu invitation from IT Services (See above, Process to gain SSO access), you'll be able to log into the mobile app using your @uark.edu account:
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