The purpose of this guide is to help inform faculty about best practices to prevent academic integrity breaches that involve the use of generative AI tools. If you are looking for general pedagogical practices on assessment design, please contact SPARK. To learn more about incorporating AI into your teaching practices, consider attending a series of comprehensive workshops on Harnessing AI to Enhance Education offered by SPARK.
The next generation of educators will have to modify their assessments to ensure AI technology is not used by students to replace their own writing. Some language-based assessment tasks such as essays, summaries, short answer questions of a general nature, and online discussion board posts are very easily completed by text generators. One way to mitigate the risks posed by AI text generators is to create assignments that exploit ChatGPT's current weaknesses and require students to surpass its capabilities.
*For information on using AI for assessment, attend AI104 – Using AI for Assessment online workshop offered by SPARK.
First and foremost, set clear expectations about the use of AI tools in assessments in your course:
Add a statement to your syllabus or assignment instructions. Consult Syllabus Information for Artificial Intelligence (AI) Tools/ChatGPT for a selection of approaches you may consider for the use of AI tools.
Require students to disclose and cite AI tools when the use of these tools is permissible. Both MLA and APA now have citation guidelines for AI tools.
Use student declarations:
What AI tool(s) did you use in your assessment?
ChatGPT?
Other ____________
How did you use the AI tool(s)? Please write a sentence.
______________________________