When 85-90% of university students are already using AI tools,1 providing secure, equitable access becomes an institutional responsibility. Madgwick Student, launching November 1, addresses this need through a custom platform that prioritises student protection while building essential workforce skills.
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Converting spreadsheet data into professional charts shouldn't require hours of Excel wrangling. The Data Visualisation Assistant, conceived by Digital Marketing Coordinator Robert Hughes and developed by LabNext70's Prompt Engineer Tom Miles, bridges this gap - transforming raw data into shareable visualisations through a guided four-step process.
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Bring seamless task management directly into your AI conversations on Madgwick with the Task Planner MCP. Rather than switching between tabs or losing track of action items buried in chat history, you can create, organise, and update tasks a central project hub - without ever leaving your conversation.
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Transform your Madgwick chats and research into professional-sounding podcasts in minutes using the new Podcast Maker MCP tool. You can quickly generate a podcast from your chats to create an engaging audio summary for students, or audio content you can consume on the go.
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UNE educators can now transform teaching ideas into functional AI learning tools without any technical expertise. The new Cogniti Assist tool guides you through creating custom AI agents for student learning - no coding or AI experience required.
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Madgwick’s new Nano Banana (aka Gemini 2.5 Flash Image) MCP brings powerful new image editing capabilities to your fingertips. Unlike traditional AI image generators, Nano Banana excels at editing and combining existing images, rather than creating new ones from scratch.
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The MCP Store serves as your central hub for discovering and installing these capabilities. Currently in trial phase, the store is being populated gradually to ensure stability and proper testing.
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