Daily office tasks with UvA AI Chat
Would you like to explore how UvA AI Chat can support you in your daily work? In this practical workshop, you will get to know concrete applications for your own tasks, such as improving texts, organising information, summarising content, and streamlining workflows more efficiently. You will gain a realistic picture of where AI can and cannot be used within the UvA.
Course details
This workshop is intended for staff who want to start working with UvA AI Chat in an accessible way in their day-to-day practice. The emphasis is on AI as support for common tasks, such as rewriting and structuring texts, drafting emails, summarising information, and organising simple work processes. You will explore different ways of collaborating with AI and gain insight into the possibilities and limitations of the available models within UvA AI Chat. During the workshop, you will work hands-on with your own tasks or directly applicable examples. Explicit attention is paid to security, privacy, reliability, and energy consumption.
Intended learning outcome
After this workshop, you will:
- be able to use UvA AI Chat to support simple day-to-day tasks, such as writing, structuring, and organising texts/data;
- have an overview of the (new) possibilities of different AI models and ways of collaborating with AI within UvA AI Chat;
- be able to recognise important considerations when using AI, such as security, privacy, reliability, and energy consumption.
Good to know
| Target audience | UvA teachers and other staff with support, organisational, or administrative duties who want to use AI in their daily work. | |
| Preparation | Not required. Participants may bring their own task, text, or work example if they wish. | |
| Language | Dutch or English, depending on participants | |
| Trainer | Morten Strømme (GenAI Living Lab) | |
| Participants | Minimum of 8, maximum of 30 participants | |
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Frequently asked questions
No, this workshop is specifically intended as an introductory workshop.
Yes, very much so. The workshop is hands-on, and you can work with your own tasks or directly applicable examples.
Registration
The course is funded from central funds. Signing up is not non-committal, we will count on your participation.
- Registration buttons for employees with an @UvA.nl email address:
- For AUC, ACTA or FdG (AMC) employees: send an email with your name, faculty and date for which you want to register to tlc-centraal@uva.nl
After registering, you will receive an automated invitation for your Outlook calendar (please don’t forget to accept). If the location is not yet known at that time, an update will follow later.
A proof of participation is available upon request. Please send an email to tlc-centraal@uva.nl after the course.
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