Google Gemini and Gemini Notebook are artificial intelligence (AI) tools available through your URI account. Gemini helps you brainstorm ideas, draft and revise content, and explore questions. Gemini Notebook helps you understand and organize information from documents and other source materials.
Executive Lead
Terry Wild
Technical Lead
John Hawthorn
john.hawthorn@uri.edu
Support Team
ITS Community Services
Tier 2 Support
About the Service:
Features
Gemini for Education
In the Gemini app at gemini.google.com, you can:
- Writing and brainstorming: Draft and revise content, develop outlines, and explore new ideas.
- Research assistance: Use Deep Research to explore a topic and generate reports.
- Learning support: Work through concepts with Guided Learning, which offers questions, hints, and explanations.
- Content creation: Use Canvas to edit and format content, create interactive quizzes, and write code. Generate and edit images with Gemini’s image tools.
Gemini Notebook
- Answers from your sources: Ask questions about your materials and receive responses with citations.
- Audio and video overviews: Turn source materials into summaries you can listen to or watch.
- Study resources: Create practice quizzes and flashcards from your sources.
- Mind maps: Explore connections between ideas in your materials.
Available features and usage limits may vary based on your URI account and Google Workspace configuration.
Usage limits: Google applies usage limits to some Gemini features. Review Google’s AI features and usage limits comparison, referring to the Education Fundamentals/Standard column, the first plan column under Education. Limits may change.
Access
Access Google Gemini using your URI account.
Most URI accounts use Google Workspace for Education Fundamentals, which provides access to Gemini and Gemini Notebook with usage limits. Gemini assistance built directly into applications such as Google Docs and Gmail requires a qualifying license. Some URI accounts have Education Plus, so available features may differ.
You can also connect the Gemini app to your URI Google Workspace apps to work with information from services such as Gmail, Drive, and Calendar. Follow the instructions for connecting Gemini to Google Workspace.
Review Google’s education feature comparison for details.
Support and Training
When using Gemini for University work, follow the Responsible Use of AI at URI guidance.
For help learning to use Gemini, see Google’s training and documentation:
- Get Started with Google AI in Higher Education: Beginner lessons introducing Google’s AI tools. Start with the “Get started with free of charge Google AI tools” unit.
- Gemini Faculty Shorts: Short videos with tips and demonstrations.
- Ready-to-use AI prompts for higher education: Practical examples to help you try Gemini.
- For sign-in instructions, frequently asked questions, and help using these tools, visit:
Do not enter health information protected by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) into Google tools.