4.5 AI Riders for Assessments
Support your discussions with students about AI using specific riders in course documents, assignment instructions, class messages, and more. Feel free to adapt the “boilerplate” language to suit your course outcomes and assignments.
General Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) Assessment Statements for Students
Course Statement of AI Use
Find a downloadable and editable template of a Course Statement of AI Use that can apply to all or most assessments. Adapt as needed.
See a Sample AI Statement of Use (MS Word).
Assignment Statements of AI Use
Assignments statements of AI use provide specific instructions for individual assessments. Here are a few examples:
AI-Assisted Writing Assignment: “Students are permitted to use Copilot to help draft their essays. However, it is essential to critically evaluate and revise the AI-generated content to ensure it meets academic standards and reflects your own understanding and voice. Assignments will be submitted to Turnitin and its AI checker tools. To opt out of this process, you must communicate with me at least 48 hours in advance of the due date.”
AI in Data Analysis: “Copilot may be used to assist in data analysis for this assignment. Students must interpret the AI-generated results and provide a comprehensive discussion of their implications. Ensure that all interpretations are your own and properly cite any AI tools used.”
AI in Creative Projects: “AI tools may be used to generate visual or multimedia content for this project. Students must document the role of AI in their creative process and reflect on how it influenced their work. Originality and creativity are key, and all AI-generated content should be clearly identified and appropriately credited.”
In the shaded box below, find a link to three types of statements that share in writing your expectations for the prohibited or permitted use of AI in individual course assessments. Adapt these as needed to suit your assessments.
See Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) Assessment Statements for Students (Faculty Learning Hub).
Academic Integrity Messaging
The Faculty Learning Hub provides information, ideas, checklists, and templates to support your academic integrity planning and messaging to students. Find below links to posts that will assist you.
Statements on Disclosing AI Use
Find examples and suggested instructions and examples to share in writing your expectations about disclosing AI use in assignments. See Describe and Document AI Use (Faculty Learning Hub).
Statements on Citing Artificial Intelligence
Find statements and examples related to citing Generative AI content. See Citing Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) (Faculty Learning Hub).
Statements on Detection Software Used in Assessments
Find statements about detection tools (Respondus Monitor/Lockdown Browser) that will be used in your course assessments. See Advising Students on Detection Software Used in Assessments (Faculty Learning Hub).
Statements on Group Work
This page contains a series of riders ensuring academic integrity in submissions. Included in this page is a section on group work. Adapt or add to the rider provided to include statements related to student submissions using AI. See Rubric Items and Riders (Faculty Learning Hub).
Email Templates Responding to the Suspected Use of Generative AI
Find templates that chart a scaffolded approach to communicating with a student, moving from an expression of concern regarding the suspected use of AI, informing the student that you will file an academic offence and de-escalating an alarmed or anxious response. See Email Templates Responding to the Suspected Use of Generative AI (Faculty Learning Hub).
Other AI Riders Examples
See these other AI riders from external sources. Note that they may not reflect the college’s AI Evolving Guidelines.
- The University of Windsor provides 12 different brief Course Syllabus Statements on the Use of Generative Artificial Intelligence
- Cornell University’s Teaching and Learning Resources provide some language you may wish to consider for your assessments:
- Cornell University’s Committee Report on Generative AI also provides some useful ways to communicate expectations to students in writing.