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Audience: Faculty, Staff
Responsible Group: IT Training and Outreach
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.
IMPORTANT:
Users must follow all federal and state laws, as well as UA System and University of Arkansas policies, when handling university data on any AI tool.
Key Features
These features are unique to having a University of Arkansas license.
- Integration with your @uark.edu credentials for secure login.
- Collaborate with other @uark.edu accounts in the University of Arkansas OpenAI Workspace.
Access
Note: Departments must purchase an OpenAI license for faculty and staff to gain access to the University of Arkansas workspace.
Process to gain SSO access
- Request access - Complete and submit the AI Tools Request form in the UARK Help Portal. (See Related Services).
- 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, read these directions before accepting email invitation ChatGPT: Transfer personal account to Edu account.
- Check your email - Open the invitation email and click the link provided to activate your ChatGPT Edu license.
- Sign in with Single Sign-On (SSO) - After completing the activation step, you will see the option to log in with your UARK SSO 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)
Once 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
Once 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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