Academic integrity

SummaryPolicy Statement and Source

Suspected breaches of academic integrity are managed through the University’s academic integrity portal.

Chief examiners must ensure that:

  • students are educated in appropriate academic practice specific to the discipline;
  • reports of suspected breaches are managed through the University’s academic integrity portal.

When the suspected breach is in relation to any assessment task, including a scheduled final assessment, the staff member must stop marking the assessment (if applicable) and immediately report the breach to the chief examiner or nominee via the online form, including any evidence relating to the suspected breach.

See 2.7 and 5.1.1 of Student Academic Integrity Procedure

It is the responsibility of academic staff to educate students about academic integrity and assessment conditions including:

  • restrictions on the use of AI (if any)
  • how to acknowledge the use of AI

Where use of generative artificial intelligence tools is not allowed in an assessment task, the chief examiner will specify the types of generative artificial intelligence tools (e.g. text-generating, image-generating, translators) that cannot be used. Such restrictions are recorded in the assessment documentation in the learning management system.

See 1.17.2 of Assessment and Academic Integrity Policy

Chief examiners must ensure that students enrolled in the unit are educated about the University’s academic integrity standards and requirements that apply to each unit or assessment task, including the University’s resources on responsible and ethical use of generative artificial intelligence tools. See also section 2.7 of the Student Academic Integrity Procedure.

See 2.8.7 of Assessment Regime Procedure

Chief examiners must ensure that:

  • students are educated about the responsible and ethical use of generative artificial intelligence tools and how such tools should be acknowledged if they are used

See 2.7 of Student Academic Integrity Procedure

If a chief examiner restricts the use of generative AI in assessment, this decision must be based on educational reasoning, the assessment task and its function in generating particular evidence of student learning.

The chief examiner must determine where and how generative artificial intelligence tools can be used in a unit, an assessment task, or part of an assessment task.

  • Where the chief examiner specifies that generative artificial intelligence is not allowed, the decision should be made based oneducational reasoning, the assessment task and its function in generating particular evidence of student learning. The reason must be clearly stated in the required section in the learning management system and published before the start of the teaching period or no later than four weeks before the assessment task details are made available to students.

See 1.7 and 1.7.1 of Assessment Regime Procedure

Any restrictions on the use of AI in assessment must be clearly stated in Moodle prior to the teaching period. Watch a video on how to specify conditions in Moodle or read more on this topic.

Where the use of generative artificial intelligence tools is not allowed in an assessment task, the chief examiner will specify the types of generative artificial intelligence tools (e.g. text-generating, image-generating, translators) that cannot be used. Such restrictions are recorded in the assessment documentation in the learning management system.

See 1.17.2 of Assessment and Academic Integrity Policy

Table 2: Communication methods and timeframes of assessment requirements

See 7.1 of Assessment Regime Procedure

Students must acknowledge the use of AI in assessment.

When generative artificial intelligence is used by students as part of the assessment, it is expected to be used with honesty and in a manner that is responsible and ethical.

  • If students use generative artificial intelligence to create work submitted for assessment, it must always be acknowledged.

See 1.17 and 1.17.1 of Assessment and Academic Integrity Policy

Students are responsible for demonstrating appropriate academic practice. Specifically, students must:

  • appropriately acknowledge the use of generative artificial intelligence tools

See 2.15 of Student Academic Integrity Procedure

If students fail to acknowledge the use of AI or use AI where the Chief Examiner has specified in Moodle that it cannot be used, this constitutes a breach of academic integrity.

Students must not breach the conditions for assessments set by chief examiners in the learning management system or within the assessment instructions. Conditions may include but are not limited to:

  • not using generative artificial intelligence tools; or
  • acknowledging the use of generative artificial intelligence tools in the creation of work.

See 4.7 of Student Academic Integrity Procedure