Last updated on September 4, 2024
ChatGPT is an artificial-intelligence chatbot that users can engage with for assistance, conversation, or answers to complex inquiries. It is a powerful tool that can create human-like responses to a wide variety of prompts and questions. This tutorial covers how to sign up, log in, and enter a prompt using ChatGPT. To learn more about ChatGPT and artificial intelligence in education, review the CTLD Resource on Generative AI.
Directions
Set Up an Account with ChatGPT
- Type chat.openai.com into your browser search bar.
- Click the Sign up button.
- Type an email you would like to be associated with your account. If you have a Google or Microsoft account you would like to use, you can click one of those buttons to automatically enter the information for that account.
- Type a password for your account that is at least 8 characters long.
- Note: Chatgpt has a very high volume of users and may display a message that reads, “signup is temporarily unavailable”. If this occurs, repeat the steps above and attempt to create your account in a few hours.
- Click Continue.
- Navigate to the email inbox associated with the email you entered for step 3.
- Click on the email you received from OpenAi.
- Click the Verify email address button.
- Type your name in the text fields.
- Click Continue.
- Select the country your phone number is associated with from the drop down menu on the left.
- Type in your phone number in the text field on the right.
- Enter the 6-digit code you received at the phone number previously entered in the text field that appears on your browser window.
- Click Next on the pop up windows that describe how chatGPT collects data.
- Type your question or prompt in the text field at the bottom of the page.
- Click the send button on the right side of the text field.
Use ChatGPT
- Type your question or prompt in the text field at the bottom of the page.
- Click the send button on the right side of the text field.
- Click Regenerate Response to make ChatGPT rewrite it’s response to the most recent prompt.
- Click the Thumbs Up or Thumbs Down buttons to the right of each response to rate it as helpful or unhelpful.