Review your communication with students
When you have reviewed the course plans and made a decision about the use or banning of GAI tools, you should have an ongoing and open communication with your students. This should cover the purpose of the learning activities and examinations and assessments, in order to increase students' awareness and literacy about academic assessment and their own learning. It is important to explain why you examine the way you do, why the competencies these activities develop are important and why students must show that they possess them after completing the course. Encourage the students to think about how the development of their own skills relates to the use of a GAI tools as an aid: they should know where the difference lies between submitting an AI-improved text and having improved one's own competence for written presentation. It is important that you and your students understand the capacities and limitations of GAI tools. In doing this, you can give the students a perspective beyond the course and beyond the university education.
If you are going to permit the use of GAI tools, then you should specify which tools are authorised for use in assessment. You also need to guide students about how to use these tools in a constructive way in studying and in producing any material which will receive peer or tutor feedback (since feedback on something one has not produced oneself is unlikely to be developmental and may take up a considerable amount of staff or peer time). If you want to be sure to give formative feedback on students’ own work, you may need to control the conditions in which the work is produced.
Editable policy documents for you to use, including a draft communication policy for use with students:
To read more about the link between information provided by the programme team and disciplinary offences, please see this page:
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If a student violates the guidelines that you provide, then they will be considered to have cheated, in which case suspicion of misleading through the use of an unauthorised aid is reported to the Vice-Chancellor. Alternatively, you may find that the use of GAI tools has led to work which does not show sufficient independence in relation to the learning objectives, in which case the assignment is failed. Talk to the Director of Studies if you are unsure of your judgement.