At Saint-Laurent, the “AI and Success” project enabled consultations with our community, revealing expectations, benefits, and challenges related to the use of generative AI (GenAI). Based on this feedback, a pilot version of the InitIAtion toolkit was developed for voluntary integration into the Réussir au collégial (RÉU) course. This 15-hour course, offered in all programs, facilitates the transition from high school to college (Dufour and Tardif, 2023) by equipping new students with skills associated with the “student profession” (CAPRES, 2020), particularly in digital literacy and documentary research.

Building on this experiment, the goal is to develop, publicize, and distribute the InitIAtion kit so that it can be offered to PIM members (among others) and integrated into key stages of the higher education student journey.

The kit would be structured around the following educational pathway:

1. Understand: learn how the tool works, its possibilities, and its limitations.

2. Test: The art of querying to shape questioning.

3. Question: critically evaluate the information produced by GenAI.

4. Use: make ethical, responsible, and creative use of the tool.

This initiative aims to reduce inequalities during transitions between educational levels by ensuring that everyone has access to fundamental knowledge about GenAI, a rapidly adopted technology (Joussemet et al., 2023; ORES, 2024). With its “turnkey” content, it is easy for teachers to adopt, who often cite lack of time as a barrier to integrating this subject into their lessons (Jean et al., 2023). It reduces the digital divide that could widen without a clear framework (Joussemet and Meurs, 2024) and clarifies the rules for using GenAI, dispelling the current confusion among students about what they can and cannot do (ORES, 2024).