AI & Academic Integrity

AI can support your learning, but it should not replace your thinking, creativity or responsibility. Use AI openly, critically and only when it is permitted.

Your teacher’s instructions always take priority. If you are unsure whether AI is allowed, ask before using it.

Before using AI

Pause and consider:

• Is AI permitted for this task?

• Which uses of AI are allowed?

• What is my purpose for using it?

• What thinking and learning must remain my own?

• Would I be comfortable explaining my AI use to my teacher?

If you are unsure, ask before using AI.

Evaluate AI responses

AI can produce information that sounds convincing but is incomplete, biased or incorrect. It may also invent quotations, facts and references.

When using an AI response:

• Check important claims against reliable sources.

• Verify names, dates, quotations, statistics and references.

• Look for errors, omissions and oversimplification.

• Consider whose voices and perspectives may be missing.

• Never cite a source without confirming that it exists.

• Do not assume that a confident answer is a correct answer.

You remain responsible for checking any information you use.

Use AI safely

Protect yourself, other people and their work.

• Do not enter personal, medical or confidential information.

• Do not upload another person’s work without permission.

• Do not share unpublished schoolwork or assessment materials.

• Follow the platform’s age requirements.

• Use school-approved tools and accounts when required.

• Follow your teacher’s instructions and the school’s guidance.

Acknowledge AI use

Using AI without acknowledging it may misrepresent how your work was produced. When required, explain which tool you used, why you used it and how it influenced your work.

You can use this template:

I used [name of AI tool] to help me [describe the purpose]. I reviewed and revised the response, checked relevant information against [sources], and completed the final work myself.

Keep relevant prompts and outputs when your teacher asks you to document your process.

Maintain your voice

AI should support your thinking—not speak for you.

• Think about the task before prompting.

• Develop your own ideas and draft independently.

• Treat AI suggestions as possibilities, not final answers.

• Question, revise and improve anything AI produces.

• Rewrite ideas using your own understanding and voice.

• Make the final decisions yourself.

• Be prepared to explain every part of your work.

Before submitting, ask:

Does this work sound like me, and can I explain and defend every part of it?

Ask for guidance

If you are uncertain about responsible AI use:

• Check with your teacher before continuing.

• Ask the librarian for help evaluating information or checking sources.

• Review the school’s academic-integrity guidance.

• Ask how to acknowledge or cite AI use for your particular task.

Examples of responsible use

AI may help you:

• Generate keywords or search terms.

• Explain a difficult concept.

• Suggest questions for further investigation.

• Create practice questions or a revision quiz.

• Provide feedback that you evaluate and use selectively.

Permission may be required before using AI to:

• Plan or outline assessed work.

• Revise or translate your writing.

• Generate images, code or other content.

• Provide feedback on a draft.

• Summarise sources or class materials.

Do not use AI to:

• Complete work that you are expected to do yourself.

• Submit AI-generated content as your own.

• Invent evidence, quotations, data or references.

• Avoid reading or engaging with assigned sources.

• Circumvent your teacher’s instructions.

• Conceal how your work was produced.

Before you submit

Check that:

• My use of AI was permitted.

• I completed the required thinking and learning myself.

• I verified important information using reliable sources.

• I revised the work in my own voice.

• I acknowledged my AI use when required.

• I can explain and take responsibility for the final work.