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Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) Syllabus Guidance

All MU instructors are required to have a generative AI policy in their syllabi. This policy should promote ethical decision making around generative AI use in class and students’ future career that is modeled by instructors and mirrors industry/discipline norms, needs, and standards (e.g., publisher use, employer requirements, etc.).

Instructors have the academic freedom to decide what degree of generative AI use should be integrated in courses, focusing on specific types of use within individual activities, assignments, and learning exercises.

Please review Generative AI – Generative AI at Marshall University (URL: https://www.marshall.edu/ai/) for more information and training related to Generative AI at Marshall University.

Generative AI Syllabus Policy Template

As you craft your syllabi statements, here is sample language you may use as a starting place drafting a syllabus policy.  You are also free to write your own policy statement.

Sample Generative AI Use Policy

Generative AI has many costs and benefits. You may not use generative AI in any way that would violate the Student Code of Conduct (URL: https://www.marshall.edu/student-conduct/).

You may be allowed to use Generative AI in some ways but are prohibited from using it in other ways during individual assignments, activities, and other learning exercises. Some assignments prohibit AI use entirely. See individual assignment instructions for more details.

Generative AI use in this course should be considered just like any other personal communication or secondary source of information that needs to be critiqued, cross-referenced with primary sources of information, and properly cited. For information on citing AI, please see MU Library’s citation website (URL: https://libguides.marshall.edu/plagiarism-AI/cite).

Please review Generative AI – Generative AI at Marshall University (URL: https://www.marshall.edu/ai/) for more information and training related to Generative AI at Marshall University.

If there is any ambiguity about generative AI use in the course, please discuss with the instructor.

Note. The instructor should provide specific guidance on if and how AI usage is prohibited or allowed by students for each assignment, assessment, and/or lesson. Departments and programs should provide instructors with sample assignments to show how ethical AI use is addressed and disclosed at the assignment level.

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