Artificial Intelligence: guidance for students

The College has clear guidelines and procedures to prevent academic misconduct, which includes passing off someone else’s work as your own. If your tutor suspects you have used used AI tools to generate work and submit it as your own, then college disciplinary procedures and penalties could apply.

It is important you do not rely on AI tools; you should develop the knowledge, skills and understanding of your subject. AI misuse is where you have used AI tools but not acknowledged you have used them or submitted this work as if it were your own. Examples of AI misuse include:

• Copying or paraphrasing sections of AI-generated content so that the work submitted for assessment is no longer your own 
• Copying or paraphrasing whole responses of AI-generated content
• Using AI to complete parts of the assessment so that the work does not reflect your own work, analysis, evaluation or calculations
• Failing to acknowledge use of AI tools when they have been used as a source of information
• Incomplete or poor acknowledgement of AI tools
• Submitting work with intentionally incomplete or misleading references or bibliographies

If you are using AI tools in your academic work, please check this guidance on how to acknowledge and reference use of these tools.

• Always check with your tutor if generated AI content is permitted in your work; it may vary between subject and module
• AI tools should not be used to generate all or part of an assessment which you later submit as your own work. This would be an offence under the College's Academic Misconduct Policy (see link below). 
• AI tools cannot be relied upon to produce accurate information, and can generate responses which contain incorrect, out-of-date or biased information, so it is important you critically evaluate any content produced by an AI tool
• AI tools can produce fake references to books and articles, so always check the original source for accuracy before using them.

AI tools are changing rapidly. We recommend that you check this guidance frequently as our advice may change as these tools develop.

Referencing or citing AI output in your work

When you use or refer to information created by AI tools such as ChatGPT or Gemini, you must acknowledge this by citing it correctly.   As the information produced by these tools is only available to you, you should cite this as a personal communication.

Examples of in-text citation:

OR

Bibliography/ Reference list (Harvard style) 

The information you need to include for a reference:

• Name of generative AI authoring tool
• (Year)
• 'Name of AI authoring tool' response to 'Name of person entering query'
• Day, month content was generated

Example of bibliography or reference list:

What to include in a declaration

When you have used AI in your assessment, you must include a declaration. This is a personal statement to acknowledge your use of AI tools in your work. The declaration usually follows your reference list and you should: 

• name the AI tools you used
• explain how you used the tools
• list the prompts or questions you used
• save screenshots of the responses

Where to place your declaration

Save a copy of the transcript of your questions and computer-generated responses, in a non-editable format, such as a screenshot. This should be submitted as an appendix at the end of your assignment, e.g.:

• I used ChatGPT to create a structure for an essay. The outputs are included in the appendix. 
• Prompts used with (AI name) : list prompts used
• Output generated: Provide screenshots of output generated
• The output was modified as follows: briefly explain the changes you made.

Declaration template

Use the heading  'Declaration' to clearly identify this statement for your teachers.

Include screenshots of the AI generated answers in your Appendix.

Example 1

Include screenshots of the AI generated answers in your Appendix.

 Example 2

Include screenshots of the AI generated answers in your Appendix.

Example 3

Include screenshots of the AI generated answers in your Appendix.