Beginning in Fall 2025, USC Upstate is making available ChatGPT.Edu accounts for faculty, staff, and students. Along with Microsoft Copilot, ChatGPT.Edu is the University-provided Generative AI (GenAI) tool.
Getting Started with ChatGPT.Edu
Your ChatGPT.Edu account enables you to use single-sign-on with your USC Upstate email account and enjoy GenAI with a high level of privacy and security. While you should never share FERPA-protected, HIPAA-protected, or Personally Identifiable Information with a GenAI tool, you may share less sensitive information without the risk of that information being released publicly or being used to train future GenAI models.
Ready to start using ChatGPT.Edu?
As a type of GenAI, ChatGPT.Edu generates text, code, images, and even video based on the most probable information of that type it finds in similar contexts. The fastest way to get to know ChatGPT.Edu is to tell it details about your context and ask it to suggest a way to achieve something you need.
For example, say you are working with several student advisees or mentees, and you’d like to use GenAI to streamline your email communications throughout the semester. You may tell ChatGPT.Edu that you are an advisor at an institution of higher education, and you are looking for strategies to streamline your email communications with your student advisees by using email templates and scheduled messages within Microsoft Outlook.
Ask ChatGPT.Edu to suggest strategies for using automated email templates to offer supportive and timely notifications to your student advisees. Then, follow its lead!
ChatGPT.Edu may recommend different automation techniques you may wish to try with Microsoft Outlook. It may offer to write sample email templates for you. Or it may suggest ways for you to integrate Mail Merges or other strategies to streamline your communication process. Use the chat to follow up on those suggestions that seem best for you.
In general, a great way to start is to ask ChatGPT.Edu to suggest a detailed prompt for accomplishing the goal you are trying to achieve. Then, use its recommended prompt to ask it for your desired outcome.
Bonus Tip: The ChatGPT.Edu initiative began as a partnership between OpenAI and leading research universities. Find out more about how higher education institutions are using ChatGPT.Edu to bring AI to their campuses responsibly.