As you determine your classroom / course AI policies and guidelines, you might want to consider these questions:
Will you allow AI tools in your course? Which ones? Under which circumstances? Why or why not?
What constitutes “appropriate” and “ethical” use of these tools in your classroom? Why?
Is AI-generated language or code acceptable in your course? If so, how much of the text or code may be generated by AI (e.g. 20%? Less? More?)?
Is AI-assistance acceptable in your course? What type of assistance is ok and for which tasks?
What is the difference between AI-assistance and AI-generated language within the framework of your course?
How does AI fit in with your learning outcomes for the course? Why?
What are the pitfalls and limitations of AI tools in your field?
How would you like your students to document their work with AI tools when they submit work to you? Note that the current AI citation practices require that the prompt to the AI tool should be included in a full citation. (Tip: you might also encourage students to write an “Acknowledgments” section for their project, outlining what help they have received from whom/what.)
Remember that writing something in your syllabus won’t mean that your students will read or internalize it! Please make sure that you have a conversation with your students about AI in the classroom. You may even consider having the students write or revise the classroom AI policy together.
**The syllabus statements on the next tabs reflect differing approaches / philosophies to AI in the classroom. You will want to select a syllabus statement that reflects your own classroom policy.
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (AI) USE POLICY
Using AI can impede your learning. The assignments in this class challenge you to develop creativity, critical-thinking, and problem-solving skills that AI does not have. Using AI technology could limit your capacity to do this type of work, and as the instructor, I urge you not to miss out on the educational opportunities that this course will provide. As is the case for all courses at Roger Williams University, work submitted by you for this class should reflect both your own ideas and your own language and you should properly cite any resources you have consulted. If you have any questions about citation or about what constitutes academic honesty in this course or at Roger Williams University in general, please feel free to raise these questions in class and/or contact me to discuss your concerns.
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (AI) USE POLICY
AI can both interfere with and enhance our capacity to learn. We must be mindful of when it might hinder us and when it might provide us with new understanding and/or assistance. In specific situations and contexts within this course you will be asked to use AI tools to explore how they can be used, what their limits are, and how to use them ethically. Please remember that any idea or language that is not your own needs to be correctly cited in work that you submit in this course and at Roger Williams University in general. This policy covers all types of AI: text, code, images, video, audio, and translation.
[You might want to include more specific guidelines about AI-generated text/code and/vs AI-assistance–are they both acceptable? Under what circumstances?]
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (AI) USE
In this course, you may use AI tools (such as ChatGPT) to help you generate ideas and to brainstorm. However, you should note that the material generated by these tools may be inaccurate, incomplete, or otherwise problematic. Beware that overuse of AI may stifle your own independent thinking and creativity, and use any tools (for generating text, code, video, audio, images, or translation) wisely and carefully.
You may not submit any work generated by an AI program as your own. If you include material—including both ideas and language—generated by an AI program, it should be cited like any other reference material, both in this course and at Roger Williams University in general. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me.
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (AI) USE POLICY
Learning to use AI is an emerging skill that we will explore together in this class. I expect you to use AI ([list which tools are relevant for your course]) in this class. In fact, some assignments may require it.
However, you should be aware of the limits of ChatGPT:
AI is a tool, but one that you need to acknowledge using. Any ideas, language, or code that is produced by AI must be cited, just like any other resource. [sample suggestion: Please include a paragraph at the end of any assignment that uses AI explaining what you used the AI for and what prompts you used to get the results.] Failure to do so is in violation of the academic integrity policy at Roger Williams University.
Don’t trust anything AI says. If it gives you a number or fact, assume it is wrong unless you either know the answer or can check in with another source. AI works best for topics you understand.
If you provide minimum effort prompts, you will get low quality results. You will need to refine your prompts in order to get good outcomes. This will take work.
Be thoughtful about when this tool is useful. Don’t use it if it isn’t appropriate for the case or circumstance.
If you have any questions about your use of AI tools, please contact me to discuss them!