Tool Evaluation Process Overview
Contributors to this Guide, experts from across the SUNY system, have tried to provide a few practical resources for faculty and students swamped with responsibility. Beyond supporting AI literacy, we want to help faculty and students use AI to develop and use their own best practices. Trying to keep up with the latest advancements in AI is not easy; as soon as information about an AI tool is printed in this Guide, the tool may have evolved or been replaced by something better. So, what we’ve done, therefore, is model a process of how to:
- Evaluate AI tools that are currently available.
- Choose a tool for a given task.
- Try the tool.
- Learn from the experience whether you would use the AI tool again in the same way or recommend it to others.
Following this process, we conducted case studies for teaching and research, professional productivity, and student agency. Feel free to apply and adapt these experiences to your own needs and workflow.
