NVivo 15 -- released and FREE to current GSU affiliates!

Current GSU affiliates can get FREE access to NVivo 15 NOW using the steps in Dr. Mandy's help doc. 

The New AI Assistant

The AI Assistant is an add-on that’s new with NVivo 15 – you can opt-in to use it (free initially, then via paid subscription) or ignore it if AI is not something you want to pursue in your NVivo-ing.

• Initial free access allows processing ~1,000 pages of tokens (1 page ~= 1500 words).
• When limit is reached, a dialog box directs you to a link to myLumivero portal to purchase an AI Assistant add-on subscription with unlimited usage renewable annually. NOTE: You will NOT lose access to NVivo 15 when you reach the AI Assistant free limit.

What does the AI Assistant do?

• AI Assistant: Summarize Text option: Select text in a Document or PDF to automatically summarize the selection and save the summaries as text-linked Annotations.
• AI Assistant: Summarize Document(s) option: Select one or more items [Documents, PDFs, and Audio or Video files with synced transcripts] to automatically generate a summary for each selected item, which can be stored as linked Memos.
• AI Assistant: Suggest Child Codes option: Select a code and generate child codes based on the coded content.

NOTE: As of 09.08/2025, AI Assistant will NOT process spreadsheet-formatted Datasets (i.e., survey open-ended questions, X/Twitter datasets) or audio or video files lacking transcripts.

WINDOWS – AI Assistant help page | MAC – AI Assistant help page

You must Activate AI Assistant to use it!

Download below PDF for steps on (1) installing NVivo 15 and (2) activating AI Assistant [see p.6]!

What security measures are in place for the NVivo AI Assistant?

"Lumivero has protected our customers and data through the OpenAI service being used and an Enterprise Agreement with them. Data that is uploaded is immediately deleted from the servers once the requested operation is completed. There is zero data retention on the server. Data is sent via an https connection using TLS 1.3." [posted Apr 28, 2025 in Lumivero's Knowledge Base]

NVIVO is MULTILINGUAL!

NVivo provides the following text content languages that you can set to match the language of your data files:

Chinese (PRC), English (UK), English (US), French (France), German (Germany), Japanese (Japan), Portuguese (Brazil), Spanish (Mexico) 

If the language of your files is not available as a text content language, you should set the text content language to 'Other'. See these help pages for setting text content language and stop words: Windows version | Mac version

IMPORTANT: You can still use NVivo for your data analysis even if your data files are a different language from those provided as “text content language” options – but you won’t be able to take advantage of the NVivo features of (1) spell checking and (2) finding words with the same stem or similar meanings when you run Text Search and Word Frequency queries.