This LibGuide compiles the top ten ways college students use Artificial Intelligence, summarizing common workflows and pointing to recent surveys and reports. The guide frames Artificial Intelligence as a set of just-in-time study aids that students use for tutoring, summarizing readings and lectures, brainstorming and outlining, and editing and rewriting. It notes that the guide was last updated on Aug 23, 2025 and is hosted at the business library site, and it attributes the content to ChatGPT, reviewed for accuracy.
The list details specific uses: explaining concepts and tutoring; condensing articles, chapters and lecture notes; generating ideas and outlines; editing, proofreading and rewriting; discovering research and triaging literature; assisting with coding and debugging; producing study aids such as flashcards and practice questions; extracting key points and creating lecture notes; formatting citations and generating bibliographies often alongside tools like Zotero or Elicit; and supporting career preparation tasks including résumés, cover letters, mock interviews and presentation coaching. The guide cites tools and examples named in the content, including ChatGPT and Copilot for coding help, and references multiple surveys and reports that document student practices.
The page includes a short bibliography of sources referenced in the guide, among them HEPI & Kortext (Student Generative Artificial Intelligence Survey 2025), jisc (student perceptions of Artificial Intelligence 2025), anthropic (education report), chegg global student survey, digital education council global AI student survey 2024, grammarly/talker research, inside higher ed (2024) and an arXiv paper on programming students. The guide presents these uses as widely adopted behaviors that are transforming learning habits while raising new challenges for higher education and instructional practice.
