Physical controls: physically preventing access 

• Supervised handwritten task

• Spontaneous non-technological task such as interview, no-phone debate, improvised performance

• Task where technology is irrelevant or unable to be used such as some artworks, drama performance, sporting, or outdoor education tasks

• “Unplugged” assessment days/incursion for completing tasks from start to finish

• Controlled physical conditions, e.g., painting en plein air

Technological Controls 

Technological controls are those where technology is used to help ensure that a student does not access/use AI 

• Lockdown-type browsers under supervised test conditions (lockdown browsers are useless if students still have phones or other methods of collusion)

• Removing internet functionality under supervised conditions (e.g., turning off wifi, off-campus testing in a mobile/wifi blackspot)

• Moment-to-moment recording (e.g. proctoring software, document software that records what a student types so that drafts can be checked, such as Google Docs and the browser extension “draftback”, recording functions on Procreate)

Currently limited options: these are either planned in future or have significant limitations that make reliance on them unwise.

• Text-matching or other anti-plagiarism software

• Coding by AI companies that allows AI-generated text to be digitally watermarked

Resource

For more detailed information, the Office of the BSSS has put together guides to AI and plagiarism for students, teachers and parents.

You can find these resources here: https://www.bsss.act.edu.au/news/2023_news_items/bsss_ai_and_academic_integrity_guides