One Calgary school is using artificial intelligence to help teachers with some of their most time-consuming tasks: creating lesson plans and writing report card comments.

University of Calgary researchers are leading a national surveillance system, tracking respiratory virus trends among Canadian children who seek care in hospitals.

But the University of Calgary is replacing its grades-based acceptance — with its required 82 per cent average — with a lottery system in hopes of attracting more potential nurses.

Dr. Stephen Freedman is a professor of pediatrics and emergency medicine at the University of Calgary's Cumming School of Medicine. Freedman is leading the respiratory virus tracking team.