While GenAI presents some risks to academic integrity, assessment, and assurance of learning, it also offers opportunities to bring higher quality programmatic approaches to assessment and build staff and students capability to use GenAI in their work.
In this post, we’ll go over where you can find help to adapt your subject activities, how you can discuss GenAI with your students and where to find further resources for Spring session 2023.
Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Education and Students), Professor Kylie Readman, will also host a town hall webinar on Wednesday 28 June, which will cover these topics, plus answer any questions you may have. You can register for the webinar at the link below.
Course directors and subject coordinators: get help to prepare for Spring session
If you are a course director or subject coordinator, you need to review and adapt subject activities and assessment tasks vulnerable to the unethical use of GenAI to maintain confidence in the integrity of assessment.
You can get started now with help and resources available centrally (don’t forget to also check in with your faculty for additional support and resources):
- Take a look at our 5 student-centred principles for the effective, ethical use of GenAI to help you redesign assessment in response to the presence of GenAI.
- Review your subject assessment with this AI-resilience diagnostic tool and determine if changes are required. For assessment tasks that require small changes, you can also view mitigation ideas and strategies.
- Bring your questions and assessment information to an assignment redesign drop-in session to get help to revise assessments, especially those that require significant change (extra IML staff are available).
- Have a questions or can’t make a drop-in session? Get in touch with the LX.lab (with the subject ‘Assessment redesign’) – extra support hours and staff are available to you.
- Know what to do if you’re concerned about a breach of academic integrity – there is a robust process to follow, so familiarise yourself with guidance on detection and academic misconduct.
Teaching staff: proactively talking to students about GenAI
On graduation, students in all fields will be using GenAI tools as part of their work. They need to know how to use it effectively in discipline-specific ways, as well as develop GenAI literacies like how to write effective prompts and how to validate and critique outputs.
If you’re teaching classes, you’re encouraged to openly discuss GenAI with your students: when you facilitate and encourage open dialogue, you build trust and create safe spaces where students feel they can ask questions and proactively seek more information and help when they need it.
When discussing GenAI with your students:
- encourage them to think critically about GenAI and its role in learning (does it enhance or undermine their skills and knowledge?)
- educate them about its risks, biases and limitations
- give clear guidance on acceptable use of AI tools in your subject and assessments (students have told us they want clear guidance so they don’t use GenAI tools in unethical ways)
- direct them to where students can get more information and help.
You should also remind students about academic integrity. At UTS we have established three principles for academic integrity and your communication with students should reinforce these messages:
In-class resources (including a slide pack) will be available closer to Spring session to help facilitate these conversations about GenAI and academic integrity, so check back here or subscribe to the LX Digest to get updates delivered to your email inbox.
Where to go for resources and updates
- For resources, take a look at the Artificial intelligence in learning and teaching resource collection.
- Updates will be made via the LX Blog and LX Digest – make sure you regularly check the blog or subscribe for updates.
- Faculties are also coordinating, so keep an eye out for advice and communications from your Associate Dean (Teaching and Learning).
- Direct your students to the Supporting Study page (more resources for students will be available closer to Spring session).