ASU Teams Up with Grammarly to Deploy Agentic AI Assistant
Arizona State University recently partnered with Grammarly to integrate agentic AI into teaching and learning, becoming the first university to deploy Grammarly's Superhuman Go AI platform.
Superhuman Go is an agentic AI assistant designed to solve campuswide challenges such as siloed data and information, tool fragmentation, and contextualized student support, Grammarly explained in a news announcement. ASU will have early enterprise access to Go, "pressure testing" the platform's capabilities to ensure it meets the needs of higher education institutions.
Utilizing Go, students, faculty, and staff will be able to "extract, organize, and act on knowledge within their organizational context," Grammarly said. ASU plans to build its own custom agents on the platform, including a tool that will help with course and instructional design as well as tools "that can add student value wherever they are reading, writing, or communicating on their devices."
In addition, ASU faculty will partner with Grammarly to create a new AI-native assignment workspace that "reimagines written assignments with AI support" in the AI era. Instructors will be able to configure assignments to their course needs, creating coursework that allows students to brainstorm, research, write, and revise with AI guidance. The goal: "to provide a model for how higher education and technology vendors can use AI to support authentic learning and support students, faculty, and administrators as they navigate AI integration," Grammarly said.
"There is no doubt that AI is radically reshaping how we teach, learn, and work," commented Nancy Gonzales, executive vice president and university provost at ASU, in a statement. "ASU's expertise in educational technology and innovation, combined with our scale and technical sophistication, requires us to take responsibility for how these technologies shape the educational process. We are proud to take the leadership role with partners like Grammarly to ensure that AI improves and expands the success of our students and enriches the teaching experience for our faculty."
"Arizona State University has been an invaluable partner in defining what agentic AI means for education," said Jenny Maxwell, head of Grammarly for Education. "Its willingness to test early versions of our product, provide detailed feedback, and push us to think differently about how AI can support both learning and operations has been crucial to building a platform that actually works for higher education. This partnership represents what's possible when a forward-thinking institution collaborates closely with an AI-native company."
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