A free resource for higher education staff

Teaching with AI —
practical, for higher
education

Most questions about AI in higher education come from the same place — uncertainty about what is appropriate, what is safe, and where to actually start. This site gives you honest, practical answers.

Find your starting point About this resource

No login required
Works with Claude, Gemini, ChatGPT and Copilot
WCAG 2.2 Level AA throughout
Built by Brickfield Education Labs

Three routes in — pick yours

You do not need to start from the beginning. Choose the pathway that matches where you are right now.

New to AI

Understanding

Start here if AI still feels uncertain or unfamiliar. Build an accurate picture of what these tools actually are, how they work, and what they mean for higher education — before you use them with students or in your research.

AI mini-course — ten modules, built for HE
AI glossary — 35 key terms in plain language
Ethics and integrity — academic integrity, policy, research ethics
Guide for students — shareable with undergraduates

Start the course

Ready to start

Setting up

You understand what AI is and want to make it genuinely useful — for your modules, your marking, your research. This pathway helps you set it up properly so what it produces sounds like you and works for your context.

Teach AI your voice — upload, instruct, personalise
Before and after demos — see what specificity does
Data protection guide — student data, research data, GDPR
AI and accessibility — UDL and inclusive teaching

Get set up

Active user

Using daily

You are already using AI and want to get more from it — in teaching, assessment, supervision, and research. Better prompts, subject-specific resources, and worked examples from real higher education contexts.

Prompt Lab — build and copy ready-to-use prompts
Assessment design — designing for integrity in an AI world
AI in research — literature review, writing, ethics of disclosure
Worked examples — real prompts, real outputs, real edits

Go to the Prompt Lab

Works with the tools you already use

Every resource on this site works with Claude, Gemini, ChatGPT, and Microsoft Copilot. The Prompt Lab has a dedicated version for each one. You do not need to commit to a single tool.

Claude
Gemini
ChatGPT
Copilot

Data protection applies in full. Your institution's GDPR obligations cover AI tool use. Student data, research participant data, and unpublished research must not be entered into free AI tools without appropriate legal cover. The data protection guide covers what this means in practice.