66% of students often or very often use generative AI to help understand material or text

Students describe in comments how GAI assists them in understanding material or complex topics in their studies.

"to understand the course material, any topic that is unclear from the course"

”Sometimes, but rarely, I send the given AI program a picture of my study notes (like umbrella categories such as paradigmes) and ask for a sensible hierarchy or timeline. It's to give me a bigger picture of the knowledge that is in the curriculum, as this helps me understand the literature more in-depth.”

"to understand complex topics and subjects in an easier way"

"to get a quick overview over a subject or theory."

"to understand a concept that I did not well understand either during a lecture or because the PowerPoint slides provided by the course are not clear"

“I use it mainly to explain topics in an easier language. To fully understand a topic.”

”I use it mostly to understand subjects i have a hard time reading. then i ask chatgpt for some of the central themes and i try reading the text again with the answers in mind.”

“I use it to understand the articles and find relevant information within the mentioned article. I also use it to paraphrase different paragraphs.”

“I mostly use it to understand something that's har for me to comprehend. Like a very complicated sentence. I also tell it to cite sources often, and then go to those sources to understand it on a deeper level.”


“I often find it difficult to focus on reading, so i often use NotebookLM to generate a podcast about the uploadet material before or after a lecture”

59% of students often or very often use generative AI to brainstorm ideas

“It's great at brainstorming and can take me from a dead end onto the right course.”

“Mostly used as help for brainstorming and thinking.”

“A brainstorm based on a short piece of text or your own notes.” *

“In my project group we often use ai to make specific sentences from brainstorms. For example, we will fill in a lot of words and thought, and ask it to make a good formulated sentence.”

“When brainstormning it can also be a good tool to help broaden ones horrison.”

“I use it a lot to brainstorm and to "connect" with and tell it about my ideas or questions about my ideas and tell it to be very critical all the time when i use it for this.”

“It is a fine line as using AI to brainstorm might lessen ones own ability to do so. At the same time it might help getting over bumps quicker.”

“In my opinion, it has helped our group think outside the box immensely during the brainstorming-fase.”

56% of students often or very often use generative AI to criticize/providing feedback on own text

“feedback to something I’ve already written. A quick way to be critiqued on the work I’ve done from an objective perspective.”

“To rewrite sentences if I think the sentence I created sounds weird or something. To come up with synonyms if I have used the same word a lot in a text.”

“Mostly to maintain a professional tone and rewrite phrases that sound odd to me or my group members.”

“To tighten up my wording so that it becomes more transparent.” *

“Sparring partner and critical view of things.” *

“To rephrase and write better, compare my own writing to the generated one”

“I like using it to check my text for grammatical errors or shortcomings, as well as to see if what I have written sounds reasonably professional and understandable.” *

“Feedback on how something I've written could be understood (when I've had trouble explaining something for so long, that the words stop meaning anything in my head)”

45% of students often or very often use generative AI for translation/language revision

“This has especially helped me with Danish, since I am studying English. Academic Danish is rather difficult to get a natural flow, so AI helps with that.”

“For language revision, since I write my projects in English but Danish is my first language”

“The more i use chatGPT the more i sound like it. I realized that it’s mostly because English isn’t my native language, and i ‘m learning lot of phrasing by communicating with it. It makes me sometimes afraid that it might become problem with the AI detection in my writing.”

“Translation (danish is not my first language )”

“It helps me get a better understanding, sometimes I struggle with understanding danish text so I get it translated”

“I sometimes use it for sentence structure, as English is not my first language and I occasionally need help with things like that.”

“I use it to translate or better sentences in English since it's not my first language.”

“i didnt grow up with english,so ai is my tool to help me navegate my studies”

33% of students often or very often use GAI for literature search

“For my current semester project I have only used the Primo AI assistant, no other AI tools”

“i only use the primo bot at the beginning of literature search.”

“I use AI to find relevant literature, in a more time suffecient manner and then check if it is peer rewived in primo. If it is then I will use it, if not I won't use it.”

“I use AI in literature searches, but only to generate keywords that I can then use in the various databases.” *

“Literature sorting for systematic reviews to screen for, for example, duplicates from different publishers.” *

“I am very fond of the ‘research assistant’ in Primo, but no one else in my project group knew about it.” *

“Primo Research Assistant tool in the official AAU library and if i should reference the use of it for finding material in my assignment for example.”

“I think AAU library website has a very great AI tool, that aids in searching for literature based on conversations with it.”

30% of students often or very often use GAI for creating text elements

“for me creations of text elements are making notes.”

“Creating flashcards and other memorization tools for oral exams”

“I use it as a sparring partner and for feedback so I can improve my text, but I don’t use it to generate text for me.”

“In my project group we often use ai to make specific sentences from brainstorms. For example, we will fill in a lot of words and thought, and ask it to make a good formulated sentence.”

“Creation of structure within projects. Feeding the ai 3 full pages of notes on what a certain section should be about and a general idea of the content, yields a decent first draft. However, it is only for the first draft…”

“In addition, I have used it extensively to generate cases that I use to study for exams.” *

“Preparation of reading plans for specific elements of project reports” *

“I never use it to generate text for me, but it does help to find literature, summarize difficult texts, and give me feedback on my own texts.”

19% of students often or very often use GAI for data analysis – 33% never use GAI for this and explain reasoning

“I have used AI to help ease the burden for tasks that would require critical thinking such as data analysis.”

“I also use supervised generative ai to write data analysis code.”

“I don't use it to analyze my data, but it helps me structure my data in a format I can digest. This is to ensure that my data remains unaltered, as I did not intend.”

“I believe that its use (if used responsibly) can help advance projects, both in terms of the written work and the content, as some analyses or coding can now be done more quickly, allowing more to be accomplished in connection with the project, where previously there may have been more time pressure.” *

“I think it’s a great tool for understanding but not analyzing or anything further than that”