staff member wanting ai in the school

[xicor]

Has anyone deployed AI tools for staff across their school?
 

We currently have Microsoft Copilot, but staff are increasingly asking for something closer to the ChatGPT like being able to easily group chats into projects, keep related work together, and generate images etc

 

The problem I’m finding is that ChatGPT becomes very expensive once you move into the versions with proper management and security controls. ChatGPT Business/Teams seems more affordable, but from an IT admin point of view the controls still feel quite limited. For example, I can't seem to centrally/bulk disable plugins or properly lock down some of the features I wouldn't want staff using.

 

I'm interested to know what others have deployed for staff if any ? or if you using Copilot, ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, or something you've built yourselves using an API?

 

[3s-gtech]

Copilot only - laid out in our AI policy. This is for Data Protection and budgeting reasons, and also for things like SARs - we need data in places that we can audit and manage. If they really want to use another AI service, they'll need to lay out the business case and resolve these questions.