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Artificial Intelligence: Faculty AI Guide

Instructor suggestions

To mitigate potential issues of student misuse of AI tools, instructors are encouraged to be proactive in their planning and development of student assignments:

  • Be familiar with the output AI tools produce when assignment prompts are input.
  • Know how to appropriately use AI detection tools and understand their limitations.
  • Adopt a process-oriented approach to assignments where students work through various phases of the assignment rather than turning in one final work.
  • Utilize assessments that cannot be adequately replicated through AI tools, e.g. collaborative projects, oral assessments, practical and hands-on applications, flipped classroom with in-class assignments, and case studies.
  • Give students clear instructions for how they can maintain a record of their work-in- progress on written assignments and how to best evidence their authorship on these assignments.
  • Incorporate AI in meaningful and deliberate ways on assignments and model appropriate use.

How to monitor for AI misuse

  • Collect in-class writing samples from students as a benchmark of their writing style.
  • Ask students to draft written assignments in Microsoft 365 so that version histories are saved and can be shared with you if needed.
  • Ask students to track changes in Microsoft Word and annotate any use of AI tools on the draft.
  • Input course assignments into AI platforms and note the output generated to use as a comparative to student work.
  • Adopt process-oriented assignments where the instructor actively monitors the development of the final work, e.g. brainstorming, note taking, outline, drafts, etc.
  • View the editing time on Word documents. Keep in mind that a student may have copied and pasted a final draft onto a new document. So, if the editing time is minimal, ask to see a prior draft to ensure proper authorship.

AI-proof assignments

Syllabus script for designated AI use

Designated AI use: Beyond the acceptable use as stated in the Policy on the Use of AI, students may use AI tools and platforms [in this course / on this assignment] in the following ways: [clearly explain how AI may be used].

When used, students must disclose the use of AI in the following manner [as a footnote/in an Acknowledgment section]: “The author acknowledges the use of [name and version of AI tool (publisher, url)] for [select one of the permitted AI uses listed above].”

Example: “The author acknowledges the use of ChatGPT-40 (Open AI, https://chatgpt.com) for brainstorming ideas to engage parishioners in a Bible study.”

Students must include a copy of their input prompts as well as a copy of the AI-generated output in an appendix to their submitted work.

Please see the Student AI guide for additional methods of documenting AI use.