Open WebUI is our go-to open source chatbot application used for many of our training offerings. We can also help you install this application for long-term staff usage!
Open WebUI boasts:
- smooth chatbot interface
- connected to first-class LLM AI models via API (e.g., OpenAI, Anthropic)
- ability to generate images
- ability to upload and analyze files
- code interpreter functionality
(Not sure what any of this means? Take one of our AI courses! :-)
Red box (top-left sidebar actions)
Your quick-start menu for making a new chat, searching existing chat, or opening notes. Use a new chat conversation for each separate topic or task, then use the search tool or the chat history list to find previous conversations. Notes are simple text documents that you can use as a source of knowledge for future conversations.
Yellow box (top bar model/chat selector)
This is a dropdown menu where you select an AI chat model. You can also click the "+" to add additional models for comparison testing. More information about our standard AI models can be found here:
- Seeing Chatbot: This chatbot can "see" and analyze uploaded images.
- Chat With Search (OpenAI): OpenAI's GPT5 language model with search capabilities
- Basic Chatbot (Full): OpenAI's GPT-5 (full) with "you are a helpful assistant" prompt.
- Basic Chatbot (Nano): OpenAI's GPT-5-nano with "you are a helpful assistant" prompt.
- Chatbot (GPT-5.2): OpenAI's GPT-5.2 with "you are a helpful assistant" prompt. Latest GPT version!
Orange box (left chat history list)
Your recent chats list—click one to jump back in. There are also folder options so that you can organize your chats by content or category. Chats are named automatically based on the subject, but you can rename any chat to whatever you'd like.
White box (main message composer area)
The big message box where you type what you want to ask. Note: the microphone and audio wave buttons are for dictation mode and conversational mode, but we typically disable these in a library environment because it's pretty frustrating to have fifteen people simultaneously talking to their computers during training.
Purple box (add/attachment/tools button)
The plus sign allows you to upload an image or attachment for the AI to analyze. The diamond button allows users to enable a) Image Generation and b) Code Interpreter modes.
Teal box (suggested prompts)
Ready-made prompt ideas you can click to get started. This helps if you're stuck with a big empty box and no ideas!