AI Tools

Log into Microsoft Copilot by following these steps: 

1. Log into MyCPP using your Cal Poly Pomona credentials. 
2. Once logged in, select the Online Services tab and search for Microsoft Copilot or navigate directly to the Microsoft Copilot website. 

Free limited access is available to Cal Poly Pomona faculty, staff, and students as part of IT@CPP’s Microsoft Office 365. 

Additional paid functionality is available through Microsoft Copilot Pro and Microsoft 365 Copilot for Enterprise, which provides personalized and seamless functionality within Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Teams.

When you use Microsoft Copilot with your Cal Poly Pomona account, your information stays private within Cal Poly Pomona's Microsoft 365 environment. It's not used to train public AI models. The information that Copilot generates comes from public sources like the internet. 

Learn more about privacy and data usage at the Microsoft Privacy Statement.

Microsoft Copilot is designed to be a versatile and powerful assistant, enhancing your productivity and creativity across various tasks, like:

• Document Creation: Draft emails, reports, and documents, helping you get started quickly and ensuring your writing is clear and professional. 
• Data Analysis: Analyze data and generate insights.
• Creative Support: Provide ideas for projects, presentations, and brainstorming sessions. 

Faculty can leverage Microsoft Copilot to enhance their teaching, research, and administrative tasks, including:

• Lecture Preparation: Draft lecture notes, create presentation outlines, and brainstorm engaging class activities. 
• Research Assistance: Assist in literature reviews, summarize academic papers, and draft research proposals and articles.
• Grading and Feedback: Provide initial assessments of student work and generate personalized feedback.
• Data Analysis: Analyze research data and interpret results.
• Student Support: Create study guides, answer common student queries, and provide additional resources for learning. 

Students can benefit from using Microsoft Copilot throughout their academic life, including: 

• Assignment Assistance: Draft essays, reports, and other assignments, ensuring clarity and coherence in writing.
• Study Aid: Summarize articles and lecture notes, making it easier to review and understand complex material.
• Research Support: Conduct literature reviews, organize research findings, and draft parts of research papers.
• Data Analysis: Analyze data for projects and theses and interpret results.
• Exam Preparation: Generate study guides, practice questions, and summaries to aid in exam preparation.

• Microsoft: Learn to Use Microsoft Copilot 
• LinkedIn Learning: Streamlining Your Work with Microsoft Copilot [34 min] 

Log into Adobe Firefly by following these steps:

1. Log into MyCPP using your Cal Poly Pomona credentials. 
2. Once logged in, navigate directly to the Adobe Firefly website. 

Adobe Firefly is trained on a dataset of licensed content, such as Adobe Stock, and public domain content where copyright has expired. Adobe does not train Adobe Firefly on user content.

Learn more about privacy and data usage at Adobe's approach to AI and the Adobe Privacy Policy.

Adobe Firefly is a powerful generative AI tool that can be used through a web browser or integrated into Adobe’s creative apps. Here are some of its basic features: 

• Text to Image: Generate images from text descriptions, allowing you to create visuals by simply describing what you want.
• Generative Fill: Modify images by adding, removing, or replacing elements using text prompts.
• Text Effects: Create eye-catching text effects to enhance your digital content.
• Generative Recolor: Apply themes and color variations to vector images using everyday language.
• Social Media Content: Easily create social media posts, flyers, and posters. 

Faculty can leverage Adobe Firefly to enhance their content and student engagement. See the following resources from the Adobe Education Exchange for ideas:

• New generative AI activities for your classroom
• 12 fun ways to enhance class projects 

• Adobe Help Center: Adobe Firefly Learn & Support
• LinkedIn Learning: Design Tools Weekly (Spring 2023): Adobe Firefly [10 min 26 sec]
• LinkedIn Learning: Adobe Firefly Essential Training [3 hr 48 min] 

• Free limited access is available.
• Additional paid functionality is available through OpenAI plans.

• OpenAI Help Center
• OpenAI’s Privacy Policy  

• Free limited access is available.
• Additional paid functionality is available through Claud.ai plans.

• Anthropic Help Center
• Anthropic’s Privacy Policy  

• Free limited access is available.
• Additional paid functionality is available through Google One AI Premium plan.

• Gemini Apps Help
• Gemini Apps Privacy Hub  

• Free limited access is available.
• Additional paid functionality is available through Perplexity Pro plan.

• Getting Started with Perplexity
• Perplexity's Privacy Policy 

• Free to use.

• Microsoft Bing Image Creator Help
• Image Creator from Designer Terms of Use
• Microsoft Privacy Statement 

• Requires free Discord account.
• Paid plans available through Midjourney Subscription.

• Midjourney Quick Start Guide
• Midjourney Privacy Policy 

• Free limited access is available.
• Additional paid functionality is available through Canva Pro.

• Canva Help Center
• Canva Privacy Policy