• If you want to prohibit AI use in your class or assignment, explain why.
• Connect approved AI use to something familiar, such as getting help from a tutor.
• Provide clear examples of acceptable, or unacceptable, use.
• Acknowledge the ethical issues of AI usage such as data privacy, bias, inaccuracies, intellectual property/copyright violations, the environmental impact, etc.
• Note your AI documentation and citation requirements.
• Explain how misuse will be addressed.
• Encourage your students to ask questions if they are unclear about your policy.
"Generative AI is prohibited to be used for any work you turn in for a grade in this class."
"Using AI to generate answers, essays, or solutions for graded assignments is forbidden."
"Generative AI tools can provide false information, perpetuate biases or stereotypes, or draw on copyrighted information without attribution. The content these tools generate does not meet the standards of this course."
“AI tools can be used for brainstorming, proofreading, or generating ideas but not for submitting assignments without significant student effort. Students must disclose when they use AI tools and specify which parts of their work were AI-assisted. Example: Using AI for grammar checks or outline generation is okay; submitting an AI-written essay is not.”
“AI may be used for personalized learning, such as reviewing materials, asking questions, or practicing skills (e.g., Khan Academy AI, Duolingo).”
"Please cite all AI-generated content using (MLA/APA/Chicago) style formatting."
"You may use AI tools for coursework according to the following guidelines:" (Provide your preferred restrictions.)
"Artificial intelligence (AI) language models, such as ChatGPT, may be used for any assignment with appropriate citation. Examples of citing AI language models are available on the Lipscomb Library Citing AI Content guide. You are responsible for fact checking statements composed by AI language models."
AI Policy for English (Example One)
AI can both enhance and hinder our capacity to learn, engage, contribute, develop ourselves, and contribute creatively and effectively. It can amplify our learning potential and help us solve complex problems. However, it can also impede our learning and erase our unique human contributions if overused or approached uncritically. We must be intentional and critical about when and how we use AI, but we must also become practiced in its use and aware of it as part of our worlds of learning, ideas, work, and community.
Like Google, Microsoft Office applications, your smart phones, pens, paper, printers, etc., AI should be understood as part of our learning, writing, working, and civic environments. As such, I expect that it will be used, and you should expect that there will be times when you are explicitly prompted to use it in our class.
AI-generated text may be integrated into your writing process to supplement and broaden your own ideas and creativity. That is, AI-assistance should be used as a tool to support and challenge your problem-solving and critical thinking skills.
However, AI-generated text should not be used as the sole source of content for any assignment or any large portion of an assignment. When AI is used to generate text as part of a draft (preliminary or final), that text should be (a) substantively revised by you, the author, (b) actively integrated into a larger text that reflects your own learning, thinking, and contribution, and (c) referenced in an acknowledgement-of-use statement (which we will discuss explicitly in class).
Of course, if you have any questions, you should always feel free to ask me for clarification or help.
AI Policy for English (Example Two)
Use of an AI Generator such as ChatGPT, iA Writer, MidJourney, DALL-E, Wordtune, etc. is explicitly prohibited unless otherwise noted by the instructor.* The information derived from these tools is based on previously published materials. Therefore, using these tools without proper citation constitutes plagiarism. Additionally, be aware that the information derived from these tools is often inaccurate or incomplete. It’s imperative that all work submitted should be your own. Any assignment that is found to have been plagiarized or to have used unauthorized AI tools may receive a zero and / or be reported for academic misconduct.
*Our writing process will occasionally make use of brainstorming activities and reflection exercises that rely on the comparative analysis of discourse conventions across a wide range of audiences. These activities and exercises will invite students to use AI as a guided reading and writing process tool rather than a purely generative device that replaces their own analytical and compositional capabilities. The use of AI Generators is thus limited to these instructor-approved contexts and will be identified as such for the assignments to which they apply.
AI Policy for a Graduate Level Class
Artificial intelligence (AI) language models, such as ChatGPT, are evolving tools with the potential to enhance professional practice, including generating ideas, organizing information, and communicating knowledge. AI, however, cannot replace critical thinking and professional judgment in the work of higher education scholar-practitioners. Accordingly, I have adopted a balanced approach to the integration of AI in this seminar, providing opportunities to explore the application of AI in professional practice while also supporting your development of essential critical thinking, inquiry, and communication competencies.
For each course assignment, I indicate if and/or how you might utilize AI in the completion of assignment tasks. For those assignments where it is permissible to use AI, I provide guidance on the appropriate use of the AI tool. Utilizing AI to complete course assignment tasks not explicitly approved will be considered an Honor Code violation. If you have questions regarding the appropriate use of AI in this course (and beyond), please don’t hesitate to discuss your ideas or questions with me.
Please note, the use of AI in this course is optional. You are not required or expected to utilize AI to complete any course assignments. If you do utilize AI, please include a note on the assignment cover page which indicates how you utilized the tool. You are responsible for fact checking statements produced by AI language models.
AI Policy (Restrictive--Example One)
Unless explicitly built into a class component, assignment, activity, discussion, or project, you should not use AI. To use AI when you are not permitted to do so is a violation of the Honor Code and will be reported. AI technologies are writing technologies, and I am interested in studying them and experimenting with how we can integrate them into our writing processes – Also will change how we write in our personal, professional, and civic lives. But AI technologies are quickly changing, and many questions and “guardrails” still need to be figured out. It’s important that we critique the ethical and educational implications, copyright and ownership issues, and affordances and limitations of different AIs. So under specific circumstances, you will be given specific directions about how you may use AI in your class work.
AI Policy (Restrictive--Example Two)
Do not use generative AI for any type of work for this class unless you are explicitly invited to do so. AI is a writing tool that is becoming integrated into many parts of our lives, so I want us to experiment with using it responsibly while actively critiquing its imitations. If you use AI in any way when it is not explicitly allowed and discussed in the assignment handout, it will be considered an Honor Code violation.
