Using Gen AI in your assessments
Guiding principle 1 for using Generative AI (GenAI):
Always follow the guidance on using GenAI provided in your assessment brief.
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Always follow the guidance provided in your assessment brief
Check the guidance for the use of GenAI: Your assessment brief should include a section on ‘Using Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) Tools’, which provides guidance on the permitted use of GenAI in your assessment. You should check this carefully before you begin working on your assessment and get clarification from your lecturer if you are unsure.
Inappropriate use of GenAI could result in academic misconduct: It's important to follow the guidance you have been given so you avoid academic misconduct. Any use of GenAI that falls outside the permitted use as outlined in your assessment brief could result in a case of academic misconduct.
Examples of guidance given in assessment briefs
Example 1:
For this assessment you may use tools, software, or features of software which use artificial intelligence to generate content such as text, images or data, in an assistive and supportive capacity. This means you may use the tool to explore the topic, generate or process data, or suggest draft structures and refine the wording or your work. However, the final work you submit must be your own. Use of AI to generate content to misrepresent your own abilities or mislead your assessor is academic misconduct.
Example 2:
When developing a poster presentation on healthcare transformation, we advise students to draw upon their individual creativity and engage in critical thinking rather than relying on AI-generated concepts. While AI can contribute valuable insights through data analysis, it lacks the nuanced context, empathy, and creative intuition inherent in guaranteeing quality in healthcare. Over half of the assessment (15 min) is a questions component where AI cannot be relied upon.
Example 3:
AI tools should not be used within this assessment.
Example 4:
Generative AI is part of the assignment criteria and is the student’s first formal demonstration of using GenAI for academic purposes. Ethical considerations are also a part of the formal assessment discussion.
Information for users of assistive technology
Many assistive technology tools have GenAI features included in them. The use of these features is allowed for assessed work. This enables students (especially disabled students who may require use of such technology as a reasonable adjustment) to check areas of academic writing such as structure, fluency, presentation, grammar, spelling, punctuation and language translation.
Grammarly and similar tools are introducing additional functionality that can be used to generate content in a similar way to Copilot. You should not use these features to generate work that you submit unless it is permitted by the assessment brief.
Your written communication may be part of the assessment criteria for some pieces of work. If this is the case, please contact your module tutor for clarification on what is acceptable in relation to the use of assistive technologies.
The work you submit must be your own. It would be considered Academic Misconduct if substantive changes have been made by the software which fundamentally change the message or content submitted.