Canva software and AI tools workshops for students | Information Technology Services Office

To equip our students with new knowledge to gear up in the new digital age, Teaching & Learning Information Technology (TLIT) training workshops are conducted periodically.

In this coming workshop, we will walk you through hints and tips in using new Microsoft Bing Chat and making use of Canva software to create presentation with the latest AI plugin functions. Moreover, we will also explore some popular AI tools which are useful in preparing your assignments and final year projects.

Upcoming workshop

Workshop delivery mode:
Canva presentation and live demonstration

Date	Time	Venue	Language	Registration
7 July, 2023 (Fri)	2:00pm – 3:30pm (1.5 hrs.)	Online via Zoom	Cantonese	Here
11 July, 2023 (Tue)	2:00pm – 3:30pm (1.5 hrs.)	Online via Zoom	English	Here

Topics		Reference links
Microsoft Bing Chat (new)	Hints and Tips on using new Microsoft Bing Chat Microsoft released new Bing Chat which uses ChatGPT model. PolyU students, if log in using Connect NetID, 30 chats per session and up to 300 chats per day will be given for free use. Using proper prompt message as sample answers or providing more context to the ask or expected output format will help you to obtain better responses from Microsoft Bing Chat.	MS Bing Chat Open MS Edge browser https://www.bing.com/new https://poe.com/
Canva	Canva is a free online design tool for students to create presentations, C.V., posters and more. Students regardless of your background will find Canva easy to use. You can create amazing visual content in your assignments with no design experience needed.	https://www.canva.com/

Topics

Reference links

Microsoft Bing Chat (new)

Hints and Tips on using new Microsoft Bing Chat

Microsoft released new Bing Chat which uses ChatGPT model.
PolyU students, if log in using Connect NetID, 30 chats per session and up to 300 chats per day will be given for free use.
Using proper prompt message as sample answers or providing more context to the ask or expected output format will help you to obtain better responses from Microsoft Bing Chat.

MS Bing Chat

Open MS Edge browser
https://www.bing.com/new

https://poe.com/

Canva

Canva is a free online design tool for students to create presentations, C.V., posters and more.
Students regardless of your background will find Canva easy to use. You can create amazing visual content in your assignments with no design experience needed.

https://www.canva.com/

Other popular AI tools:
Microsoft Designer	Create images from written text with AI.	https://designer.microsoft.com/ (Student preview trial)
Vocol.ai	Summarize and analyze voice or video. Support Chinese, English & Japanese.	https://www.vocol.ai/ (Free for first 3,000 minutes)
murf.ai	A text to speech AI tool generates voices in mp3 format that can be embedded in presentations and assignments.	https://murf.ai/ (Free trial on 120+ voices and 10 mins of voice generation/ transcription)
D-ID	A text to speech AI tool generates videos for narrative assignments or virtual presentations.	https://www.d-id.com/ (Free trial is available for 30 words per speech, around 20 videos could be generated)
Google Talk to Book	New ways to explore ideas and discover books in your interested areas. The tool searches from over hundreds of books to find the ones that respond to your question or prompt. It will also help people doing research as citations.	https://books.google.com/talktobooks/ (Free trial)

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