eSchool News

DECEMBER 5, 2024

While AI tools can indeed generate answers or essays, this highlights the need to rethink assessment strategies. Instead of banning AI, educators can design assignments that leverage these tools. Define when and how it’s appropriate, fostering a culture of integrity.

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Faculty Focus

MARCH 7, 2024

I found multiple articles online which followed this idea, but they were not specific enough to show me how to actually do it or how to use it to develop an academic honesty policy concerning AI. This article will expand on those long-searched for details so everyone will have a process on academic honesty policies regarding AI.

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eSchool News

JULY 27, 2023

Today’s digital-savvy students welcomed ChatGPT with open arms and began using it for writing assignments. According to a new study from Academic Help , 67 percent of students use AI for creating texts – the basis for their essays and other papers. The issue here is not only about the academic integrity violation.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

By Carl Hooker One of the biggest misconceptions about AI in education is that it will encourage students to cheat and cause academic integrity concerns. Could students use generative AI tools like ChatGPT to cheat and cut corners on an assignment? Did students cheat before AI was around? ABSOLUTELY.

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Faculty Focus

JULY 18, 2023

The most prominent concern is the impact on academic integrity. How much bot input should be allowed while completing assignments? Issues like plagiarism, cheating (on tests or in admission scandals), and integrity have been the center of ethical conversations for many years. Will technology induce cheating?

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Academic Integrity Intelligence Ethics Essay 98

Faculty Focus

JULY 18, 2023

The most prominent concern is the impact on academic integrity. How much bot input should be allowed while completing assignments? Issues like plagiarism, cheating (on tests or in admission scandals), and integrity have been the center of ethical conversations for many years. Will technology induce cheating?

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Academic Integrity Intelligence Ethics Essay 98

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 3, 2023

The November newsfeed heralded the arrival of AI essay writing. AI (or Artificial Intelligence) essay writing recruits online software that sifts through information and generates a thoughtful written analysis. Enter a prompt, and AI can turn out a reasonable essay on everything from utilitarianism to the Krebs cycle…for free.

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Essay Plagiarism Writing Ethics 98

eSchool News

APRIL 3, 2025

As educators, it is important to understand the underlying causes of this behavior and develop assessments that encourage academic integrity. Do you support student use of AI in school and/or for assignments? While AI itself isnt inherently problematic, its use in cheating can hinder students’ learning and development.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Many coaches note that AI tools assisted in grading assignments, offering real-time feedback, and supporting differentiated instruction. They encourage teachers and students to utilize AI for brainstorming, outlining essays, and improving writing mechanics. Coaches cite technical challenges as well.

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Coaching Ethics Academic Integrity Plagiarism 214

Edsurge

MAY 15, 2023

And as someone who is also a former journalist and editor for EdSurge, I recognize that we should never plagiarize, and that artificially-intelligent chatbots are very, very capable of responding to prompts like “Write me a 500-word essay on Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night.” What might be some responses that disagree with that idea?”

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 21, 2020

As more schools adapt to an e-learning environment this fall, teachers are both emphasizing the importance of academic integrity, as well as taking extra precautions to check that students have written original work. The platform allows both teachers and students to improve their writing processes. Copyleaks provides a full.

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Plagiarism Intelligence Essay Academic Integrity 210

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Andrew's Episcopal School in Mississippi, in an essay earlier this year. To Derek Newton, a journalist who writes a newsletter about academic integrity , the policy seems like an effort by OpenAI to dodge concerns that many students use ChatGPT to cheat on assignments. “It

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Academic Integrity Assignments Essay Schools 191

eSchool News

MARCH 11, 2025

Refining his essay : ChatGPT provided models and feedback that helped him improve coherence and argumentation. Can you tell me how you approached this assignment? That made me think about how people see success differently, so I added that idea to my essay. That helped me finish that part of the essay. and Che Guevara.

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Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

In addition, you could contact your institution’s LMS administrator and ask them to create a course for faculty to house links, tips for talking to students about AI and academic integrity, and other resources. Tutors and academic support staff could help students make these distinctions. Like Faye L.

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Syllabus Academic Integrity eLearning Assignments 124

Edsurge

JANUARY 23, 2020

We encourage our customers to use the work we provide as a guide,” says Avery Morgan, a spokesperson for EduBirdie, which advertises itself as a “professional essay writing service.” But the marketing language on these sites boast of providing papers tailor made for an assignment, and promise to keep the communication with customers secret.

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Essay Writing Academic Integrity Students 161

Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 9, 2020

Regardless of whether the assignment lacked a citation, the citation method was wrong, or the student didn’t cite the correct source, a plagiarism checker could have fixed that. On top of that, when all assignments equally go through a plagiarism check, the competition becomes fair again. Conclusion.

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Plagiarism Academic Integrity Students Assignments 156

Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

In addition, you could contact your institution’s LMS administrator and ask them to create a course for faculty to house links, tips for talking to students about AI and academic integrity, and other resources. Tutors and academic support staff could help students make these distinctions. Like Faye L.

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Syllabus Academic Integrity eLearning Assignments 119

Edsurge

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Since teachers grade so many papers and assignments, many educators see that as an unacceptable level of error. For some assignments, she has asked students to install an extension for their web browser called Revision History and then grant her access. Opting in doesnt make sense in this situation, she argues.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 8, 2018

And if that homework involves writing assignments, the hours add up fast. According to the International Center for Academic Integrity, 58% of more than 70,000 students surveyed say they have plagiarized someone else’s ideas in their writing. It’s a problem that doesn’t seem to be going away.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

In surveys of more than 70,000 high school students by the International Center for Academic Integrity, 58% admitted to plagiarism. A misguided reward system can push ambitious, high-performing high school students toward cheating in the belief that their plagiarized essays can earn better grades. And in her book My Word!,

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Plagiarism Essay Internet Assignments 120

Edsurge

AUGUST 24, 2023

After all, chatbots can suddenly spit out five-paragraph essays and other texts in seconds, once considered something that only humans could generate. To Chang’s point, plenty of professors remain concerned about the potential impacts of ChatGPT on academic integrity, even if they’re open to adopting the tools to improve teaching.

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Ethics Essay Teachers Academic Integrity 148

Edsurge

JANUARY 23, 2017

In 2014, Turnitin acquired LightSide with a mandate to help shift Turnitin’s focus from academic integrity tools to those that emphasize student writing. It deemphasizes the role of essay writing and communication—the stuff that in fact is probably more valuable for the majority of students. In 2013, he left the Ph.D.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 30, 2020

Australia is paying a lot more attention to this than any other country in the world,” says Tricia Bertram Gallant, director of the Academic Integrity Office at the University of California at San Diego. Still, no type of assignment is cheat-proof, she adds. Plenty of college administrators in the U.S.,

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Plagiarism Assignments Academic Integrity Attention 152

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 1, 2023

Should you redesign your academic integrity syllabus statement or does your current one suffice? Should you change the way you give exams and design assignments? Redesigning academic integrity statements is essential. Redesigning assignments can reduce the potential for cheating with AI.

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Academic Integrity Plagiarism Exams Syllabus 98

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 1, 2023

Should you redesign your academic integrity syllabus statement or does your current one suffice? Should you change the way you give exams and design assignments? Redesigning academic integrity statements is essential. Redesigning assignments can reduce the potential for cheating with AI.

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Academic Integrity Plagiarism Exams Syllabus 98

Edsurge

JULY 11, 2023

Academic integrity watchdogs also point out that a dismissal of cheating charges does not mean no misconduct occurred, only that it wasn’t proven. Regardless, the issue is on the radar of the detection services themselves. Still, argued the vice president of artificial intelligence Eric Wang, detection wasn’t going to be a problem.

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Plagiarism Academic Integrity Intelligence Instructors 119

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 3, 2023

Part 2 discusses how you can redesign assignments using the TRUST model to serve as a pedagogical tool. Redesigning assignments can reduce the potential for cheating with AI. You can redesign assignments to address many of these issues. Students want to know why they are being asked to do what you have assigned them to do.

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Failure Academic Integrity Assignments Universal Design 98

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 3, 2023

Part 2 discusses how you can redesign assignments using the TRUST model to serve as a pedagogical tool. Redesigning assignments can reduce the potential for cheating with AI. You can redesign assignments to address many of these issues. Students want to know why they are being asked to do what you have assigned them to do.

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Failure Academic Integrity Assignments Universal Design 98

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Proponents of AI claim that AI tools should be integrated into lesson design, however, it is also the case that AI may be used by students as an unethical shortcut to wholly complete written assignments. The results of this project do not provide an indubitable foundation to address academic integrity concerns.

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Faculty Focus

MARCH 30, 2025

2023) highlight AI’s dual edge: it clarifies concepts but also crafts compelling disinformation, posing risks to academic integrity. AI and Academic Integrity: Redrawing Assessment The rise of AI tools like ChatGPT has forced educators to rethink traditional assessment methods. Spitale et al.

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Faculty Development Teaching Instructors Academic Integrity 91

Edsurge

DECEMBER 26, 2023

But I somehow missed that he published a new, different kind of book in 2021 — “ The Anthropocene Reviewed ,” a collection of personal, contemplative, funny and deeply human essays. The essays start off sardonically but become increasingly earnest and reflective.

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Reading Essay Instructors Culture 142

Faculty Focus

MARCH 30, 2025

2023) highlight AI’s dual edge: it clarifies concepts but also crafts compelling disinformation, posing risks to academic integrity. AI and Academic Integrity: Redrawing Assessment The rise of AI tools like ChatGPT has forced educators to rethink traditional assessment methods. Spitale et al.

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Faculty Development Teaching Instructors Academic Integrity 86

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Proponents of AI claim that AI tools should be integrated into lesson design, however, it is also the case that AI may be used by students as an unethical shortcut to wholly complete written assignments. The results of this project do not provide an indubitable foundation to address academic integrity concerns.

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Essay English Lecturing Writing 111

Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 29, 2023

Become acquainted with your librarian If you have not yet done so, become acquainted with the librarian assigned to your discipline. Include in the conversation a copy of a draft syllabus, required assignments, and any concerns you have about academic integrity. This could be quite a revealing discussion.

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Syllabus Instructors Learning Assignments 98

Edsurge

MARCH 1, 2018

“I need a 10 page essay written on the deforestation of the Amazon rainforest. And you don’t need to be an expert in academic honor codes to know that it constitutes as cheating. “You Universities usually have strict honor code policies about students cheating on exams, homework and other assignments. Must have 7 resources.”

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Essay Ethics Exams Academic Integrity 90

EAB

DECEMBER 18, 2023

In the course of tackling one of the tasks it was assigned, GPT-4 independently reached out via TaskRabbit for help solving a CAPTCHA. It’s no secret that many high schoolers are already using ChatGPT for their academic work, and it’s reasonable to suppose they’re also using AI to prepare their college applications.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 21, 2022

After trying it out on some essay prompts he’d been assigned, though, he noticed some problems. It seemed to take out some of the thankless legwork (or, some professors might argue, the work) from essay writing, only requiring a little pre-work and a touch of editing: “You can at least write papers 30 percent quicker,” he says.

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Plagiarism Essay Writing Students 208