Claude for Education is now for accessible for LSE educators, free of charge. This is a 1-year pilot scheme, starting in May 2025. You can find out more about Claude here. All LSE students were sent an invitation to access Claude on Tuesday 20 May. Anthropic have guaranteed that LSE student and staff data will not be used to train their models.
As well as the School-wide guidelines on the use of GenAI, all users should bear in mind Departmental guidance on use of AI in their teaching and assessments. You may also wish to reference this guidance for LSE staff members from the Secretary’s Division.
If you already have a personal Anthropic account associated with your LSE email address, please complete the access form to switch to Claude for Education. LSE’s plan will give you access to more features and functionality and provides a secure environment for LSE staff and students that LSE has agreed with Anthropic.
The Eden Centre is running a workshop on Thursday 12 June on Teaching with Generative AI (2-3.30pm). Please do register for the workshop.
Colleagues in the Eden Centre team would be happy to discuss any questions you may have about the integration of generative AI into teaching, learning and assessment. We are also keen to hear your feedback about the effective use of Claude to support teaching and learning – please contact us via eden@lse.ac.uk.
The Eden Centre is developing further guidance and resources to support the roll-out of Claude for Education including effective and ethical ways of integrating generative AI into teaching, learning and assessment as well as approaches to designing AI-resistant assessments.
Please direct any technical queries about access to Claude to the IT Service Desk: tech.support@lse.ac.uk. Additional guidance on using Claude can be found on the Digital Skills Lab’s Claude webpage, in this QuickStart Guide [PDF] and on Anthropic’s FAQ page. LSE Library also has further advice on copyright and AI.
A Generative AI: Developing your AI Literacy course is available for all staff and students on Moodle.
Further updates will be shared on this page.
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Use of Claude for Education is completely optional – there is no obligation to sign up.
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The LSE partnership with Anthropic is a twelve-month experimental pilot and you will be asked to share feedback at the end of this period.
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Users will get access to the Enterprise version of Claude for Education with a very large 500k token context limit per individual in the pilot.
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LSE and Anthropic will conduct research on usage during this time, but only through anonymised and aggregated data. The aim is to establish how useful Claude can be to LSE staff and students in an educational context.
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Personal, operational, or confidential data must not be shared via Claude, and Claude must not be integrated into operational workflows or processes.
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All users must adhere to LSE’s guidance on copyright and artificial intelligence (AI), LSE’s conditions of use of IT facilities, LSE’s Ethics Code, and Claude’s Usage Policy.
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Generative AI tools such as Claude can sound confident, but they may give wrong, outdated, incomplete, or misleading information and should not be relied upon without independently checking their accuracy. Users are responsible for evaluating the outputs they generate and for their use of those outputs.
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Please note: it is not currently possible to ‘lock down’ the instructions or knowledge content for projects, so please be aware if you decide to share a project, for example with students, that is editable by recipients. You should be clear on how you do and do not want the recipients to interact with the project. Anthropic are working to develop this functionality.