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CUC Faculty Instruction Resources: AI/ChatGPT

Institutions of higher education need to prepare students for a world of work. This world now includes AI. Students need to understand and practice integrity with every resource they encounter, including Artificial Intelligence. As faculty in higher education, it is critical to learn how AI can be used in the classroom in an ethical, responsible manner. Below are resources to help guide you.

AI Guidance from Authentic Resources

Talking to Students

  • Assign writing that is as interesting and meaningful to students as possible.
  • Communicate what makes the process of writing valuable. 
  • Support the writing process.
  • Focus on building relationships with students as a way to help them to stay engaged. 

Not sure how to cite using AI?

Look at the resources below:

Detecting AI Generated Assignments

Will faculty members be able to use software to identify auto-generated text from human writing?

Thus far, not reliably. Existing detectors such as OpenAI’s classifier and GPTZero have been shown to identify human-written text as “likely AI” a significant portion of the time.

False positives can lead to false accusations.

What other steps can be taken?

  • Use Google Scholar to verify citations: At this time, many AIs are still creating fake citations. Double-checking citations from a paper by pasting the whole citation (or at least the article title) Google Scholar will verify if the citation is an actual resource, the majority of the time. 
  • Require students to submit the PDF of articles cited in their papers
  • Create an assignment around an issue that is specific to the local community
  • Direct students to write about very recent news events
  • Have students show or explain their work
  • Ask students to give an oral presentation, along with the written work
  • Handwritten essays (owch!)
  • Put project-based learning to work