Cal Matters

JUNE 26, 2025

It has been more than two years since the release of ChatGPT created widespread dismay over generative AI’s threat to academic integrity. Turnitin, a longtime leader in the plagiarism-detection market, released a new tool within six months of ChatGPT’s debut to identify AI-generated writing in students’ assignments.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 26, 2025

Rather than using AI as a shortcut to complete assignments, students must develop strong prompting skills that enhance their analytical and problem-solving abilities. Educators can incorporate assignments that require students to verify AI responses, identify bias, and analyze conflicting perspectives.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 26, 2025

Rather than using AI as a shortcut to complete assignments, students must develop strong prompting skills that enhance their analytical and problem-solving abilities. Educators can incorporate assignments that require students to verify AI responses, identify bias, and analyze conflicting perspectives.

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Cal Matters

JULY 16, 2025

Julia Freeland-Fisher studies how technology can help or hinder student success at the Clayton Christensen Institute. Asking for help Christian Alba said he has never turned in an AI-written assignment. That’s in the fabric of the business model of a technology company.” And that’s a problem.

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eSchool News

APRIL 3, 2024

One key question is, “How do school and district leaders ensure academic integrity as new technologies continue to emerge, like generative artificial intelligence applications such as ChatGPT, Bard, Claude, and more?” Rather than relying on this score alone, his teacher called him to discuss the assignment.

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Faculty Focus

MAY 9, 2024

The rise of generative AI tools like ChatGPT, Copilot, Claude, Gemini, DALL-E, and Meta AI has created a pressing new challenge for educators: defining academic integrity in the age of AI. Students might benefit from using these tools on some assignments, but not others. Or for some class activities, but not others.

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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

DECEMBER 1, 2023

As a doctoral student and research writer myself, I have witnessed and experienced the profound impact of these technologies on academic writing. These statistics alone underscore the pervasiveness of AI in academic environments. My experience aligns with these findings.

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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 1, 2024

They could be implemented at the institutional level, but instructors should be given the opportunity to determine the level of generative AI tool use at the course or even the assignment level. In other courses, I restrict the use of generative AI tools to particular uses for specific assignments.

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eSchool News

APRIL 3, 2023

Starting tomorrow, Turnitin – a leading provider of academic integrity solutions globally – will activate its AI writing detection capabilities. The technology identifies the use of AI writing tools including ChatGPT, with 98 percent confidence, enabling educators to analyze and review the authenticity of academic work.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Not only does it make educators revise their approach to teaching academic writing, but some still see it as a threat to students’ academic integrity. How to know if a student uses AI to cheat on written assignments? We know that technologies affect how people read, write, and think. But you know what?

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Faculty Focus

MAY 9, 2024

The rise of generative AI tools like ChatGPT, Copilot, Claude, Gemini, DALL-E, and Meta AI has created a pressing new challenge for educators: defining academic integrity in the age of AI. Students might benefit from using these tools on some assignments, but not others. Or for some class activities, but not others.

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Faculty Focus

JULY 18, 2023

The most prominent concern is the impact on academic integrity. Will technology induce cheating? 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.

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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. Will technology induce cheating? 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.

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Academic Integrity Intelligence Ethics Essay 98

Edsurge

JULY 27, 2020

As more colleges and school districts prepare to resume remote instruction for the fall, educators may worry how to prevent cheating when assignments and exams are held online. Part of the issue when designing assignments and exams to deter cheating is recognizing what cheating in 2020 looks like.

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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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Edsurge

JANUARY 5, 2024

With the technology itself evolving rapidly, establishing a framework for examining its implications is critical; we need to know what questions to ask, and to continue asking, even as the answers continuously change. Much of the discourse about generative AI in higher ed has focused on issues of academic integrity.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Concerns about academic dishonesty, loss of critical thinking skills, and inappropriate content creation have sparked discussions about banning AI tools like ChatGPT, Grammarly, and others. Instead of banning AI, educators can design assignments that leverage these tools.

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Ethics Critical Thinking Essay Students 322

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. The same is true with AI.

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Fairness Beliefs Evaluation Essay 287

eSchool News

DECEMBER 27, 2022

Thanks to today’s technology, helping them start on the right foot is easier than ever – especially with online learning opportunities. This also allows students to have more flexibility in their schedule so they can work on assignments at their own pace, or take a break if they need to.

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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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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 30, 2024

This technology will transform education by personalizing learning and meeting various student demands. Understanding AI in Academic Writing AI in academic writing is changing how students write essays. Drafts are produced faster, giving students more time for other academic or extracurricular activities.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 7, 2025

Thats the argument of Tricia Bertram Gallant, a longtime expert in academic integrity who is director of the Academic Integrity Office at the University of California San Diego. It's to teach for integrity, and there's certain things you can do, and they work whether AI's in the picture or not.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

middle and high schools can’t even try ChatGPT without a parent sign-off, even if their schools or teachers want to embrace the technology. 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 187

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

Students cheating on assignments is hardly a new or surprising problem. In research and surveys conducted by Dr. Donald McCabe and the International Center for Academic Integrity over the span of 12 years, 68 percent of undergraduates who responded admitted to cheating on tests or written assignments.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

This shift from standardized assignments to personalized projects can make learning more engaging and relevant for each student. So if we want students to be doing creative thinking, then 30 assignments done by 30 different students should all look different. The benefits of this creative assignment are clear to every educator.

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Edsurge

MAY 15, 2023

Oftentimes, when it comes to technology and new innovations, folks move to a “good” or “bad” binary. Many university campuses host “writing centers” where students can book time to get editing help on their written assignments. Acceptable use may vary from one course to another, and indeed from one assignment to another.

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Plagiarism Essay Instructors Intelligence 218

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

As trusted mentors and professional development leaders, they guide teachers in implementing AI tools thoughtfully, ensuring that technology enhances student learning while aligning with pedagogical best practices. The integration of AI in K-12 education presents both opportunities and challenges.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Through its artificial intelligence and machine learning technology, Copyleaks is able to understand and learn more about the text that students are writing throughout the school year. Copyleaks can now be accessed by thousands of K-12 schools and universities around the world that are part of the ever-expanding Canvas community.

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Plagiarism Intelligence Essay Academic Integrity 199

Edsurge

JUNE 6, 2024

Tech giants Google, Microsoft and OpenAI have unintentionally assigned educators around the world major homework for the summer: Adjusting their assignments and teaching methods to adapt to a fresh batch of AI features that students will enter classrooms with in the fall.

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Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Like some educators, I spend way too much time thinking about ChatGPT and other language model-based chatbots, trying to figure out what they mean for students, faculty, and instructional technology geeks like me. There are many, many potential uses for this language-based technology, but they are beyond the scope of this article.

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Syllabus Academic Integrity eLearning Assignments 124

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

Like some educators, I spend way too much time thinking about ChatGPT and other language model-based chatbots, trying to figure out what they mean for students, faculty, and instructional technology geeks like me. There are many, many potential uses for this language-based technology, but they are beyond the scope of this article.

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Syllabus Academic Integrity eLearning Assignments 119

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

As college classes start up this fall, instructors are handing out syllabi and pointing students to official platforms for turning in assignments and participating in class discussions. But others worry that they can lead to violations of academic integrity.

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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 155

Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 5, 2023

The rise of ChatGPT, Google Bard, New Bing, and others in the academic space, however, is skyrocketing. As I scanned topics like academic integrity, academic dishonesty, and plagiarism, I quickly adopted others’ persuasive opinions based on limited information. My initial encounters with this rising AI were biased.

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