How can I encourage students to be transparent and ethical about using generative AI?
The reasons why students may use generative AI inappropriately are complex and multi-factorial. There are a range of ways to help encourage students to be transparent and ethical about using it:
- Design assessments that reduce the risk of generative AI misuse and are appropriately scaffolded by formative assessment, allowing students to build their skills and confidence.
- Foster a sense of student belonging, as being known prompts honesty and openness.
- Ensure you are clear as to what students can and cannot do in their use of generative AI for each assessment. Explain why this is the case and engage them in the conversation.
- Encourage students to refer to the study skills guide on Using AI at University and experiment with AI in order to develop their critical AI literacy.
- Support the development of students’ study skills, including discipline-specific critical skills, and drawing on the Bristol Skills Profile.
- Ensure students undertake academic integrity training and that you engage them in regular conversations about good scholarly practice within your unit/programme.
- Include declarations with each submission to ensure students are reminded of our expectations in relation to academic integrity.
- Use an annotated bibliography or reference list to demonstrate the sources students have used, showing what they have gained from these sources.
- For category 3 and 4 assessments, students may need to show when, how and why they have used generative AI to supplement their original work in ways defined by the assessment purpose.