Academic Integrity, GenAI
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All
The following resources are designed to help you prepare students to learn the practices of academic integrity in your discipline and to respond to cases of academic dishonesty. A key recommendation on this topic is to focus on preventing academic dishonesty by teaching students the norms of your disciplines and expecations for your assignments rather than dealing with it after the fact.
General Resources
- Teaching Strategies - Academic Integrity in the Classroom: This CRLT page includes links to several useful resources, including honor codes in the schools and colleges, guides and resources from the Library and Sweetland Center for Writing, and strategies for working with your students to prevent cheating and plagiarism.
- Resources on academic integrity for international students: These websites from The English Language Institute and the International Center explain University of Michigan policies on plagiarism and their implications for students from other cultures who might have very different understandings of these issues.
Resources for GenAI
- Resources on GenAI and academic integrity: UM's GenAI portal contains a number of useful resources, including a link to UM’s GenAI tools (UM GPT, Maizey, GPT Toolbox), general resources for instructors, and a discussion of GenAI syllabus statements, including examples from a range of disciplines. In addition, this ITS article explains UM policy toward AI detection tools, with a focus on their unreliability and tendency to give false positives. And the strategies outlined in the CRLT Teaching Strategies Page on Academic Integrity apply to GenAI as well. These include having explicit conversations with students about your expectations for what is acceptable/unacceptable usage of tools like ChatGPT and the rationale behind your policies.
- UM Canvas Course on Teaching with GenAI: This course was developed by the Teaching with Technology Collaborative and is open to all members of the UM community. Module 7 suggests the following possible solutions to concerns about academic integrity and then offers guidance for implementation:
- Having an Academic Integrity/GenAI Statement in the Syllabus
- Discussing Academic Integrity with Students
- Modeling Ethical Behavior through Transparency
- Scaffolding Assignments
- Designing Authentic Assignments
- Teaching Citation Practices
- Planning What to Do If You Suspect Academic Dishonest