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By the end: You have a Stanford ChatGPT Edu account, can say which data you may put into it, and have drafted and revised one real document in it with a prompt you wrote yourself.

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Guide GenAI FAQs | University IT Start with vocabulary: what an LLM is, what a prompt is, why answers can be wrong or biased. Twenty minutes here and every later step reads more easily. Open External Responsible AI at Stanford Stanford's rules before you type anything: which data is Moderate or High Risk (addresses, health data, passwords, source code, NDA material), why saved history matters, and when to say that AI helped. Open External OpenAI ChatGPT Edu at Stanford Pick your first tool. The Standard tier is free for every active faculty, staff, student and postdoc, approved for High Risk and PHI data, and your chats are not used for training. Request the account under Get started. Open Slide deck A Working Introduction: ChatGPT Edu beginnerStanford UIT UIT's 25-slide tour of what you just requested: choosing between the Sol, Terra and Luna models, Chat versus Work versus Codex, Projects, Memory, and a Pitfalls slide worth keeping. Stanford sign-in required. Open Course AI Foundations beginner1h 10mOpenAI Academy OpenAI's own foundations course: prompting, giving context, reviewing output and responsible use. Free, with a certificate. Take it after the Stanford steps so the examples land in a workspace you already recognise. Open KB article KB00020853: How to write a long memo using Canvas in ChatGPT Edu Your first real task: draft a multi-section memo in Canvas, ask for a change to one section without touching the rest, then use version history to compare drafts. You finish with something you can actually send. Open