Using Dartmouth Chat
What is Dartmouth Chat?
Dartmouth Chat is a conversational AI chatbot available to members of the Dartmouth community through a partnership between Dartmouth Libraries and Research Computing and Data Services. The fully-featured online chat platform is similar to tools such as ChatGPT and Claude AI. From Dartmouth Chat, you can interact with several open-source local models as well as third-party cloud models by providers like OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google. Researching Computing and Data Services provides access to Dartmouth Chat free of charge to Dartmouth community members, up to a daily limit.
Below, please find a few articles to help you get started using Dartmouth Chat.
FAQs - Privacy Concerns, Usage Limits, What’s New
Getting Started
- How do I navigate the Dartmouth Chat webpage?
- What do the tags mean (e.g., FREE, LOCAL, VISION, REASONING)?
- How do I choose the right model to meet my needs?
- How do I compare the results of two different models?
- How do I generate an AI image?
- How do I organize, access, and share my past chats?
- How can I use folders to organize and inform new chats?
- How do I save and share the results of my chat?
- How do I avoid saving my chat prompts and results?
- How do I check my available credits/tokens?
Creating and Refining your Prompts
- How do I construct an effective prompt?
- How do I use local documents to shape and inform my results?
- How do I use web content to shape and inform my results?
Creating your own ChatBot with Workspace
- What is Workspace, and I how do I access it?
- How do I build my own custom model?
- How do I create and manage knowlege bases?
- How do I create a custom prompt?
More Advanced Topics
- How do I use the GPT-5 model family most effectively?
- What are Tools and how do I use them?
- How do I set the degree of “reasoning” when using REASONING models?
- How do I access and use the Dartmouth Chat API?
- How do I connect my coding tool to Dartmouth Chat API?
- How do I set up a credit group to expand my daily token limit?
Didn’t find what you needed? Please reach out to research.computing@dartmouth.edu.