When GenAI is Misused

Despite your best efforts, students may misuse GenAI in their academic work. Hopefully if you have a clearly written policy and students understand if, when and how they're allowed to use these tools, the misuse will be occasional or even rare. But, as we've mentioned, students are human beings who will make bad decisions under stress and pressure, so if your assessment isn't secure, the possibility of an integrity violation is likely. 

One way to resolve this issue, while making it about assessing learning rather than detecting cheating, is to adjust your grading rubrics so that if GenAI is used when it's not supposed to or in unauthorized ways, the student's submission will not receive a passing grade. If you'd like to explore that possibility, as well as other strategies for making GenAI use less harmful to student learning, go to the Beyond the Fundamentals section of this site.

In this section, we'll focus on identifying and addressing GenAI misuse when it occurs.