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General Strategies to Discourage GAI Use

Educate Students about Ethical GAI Use / Shift Mindset from Policing to Empowering

Sometimes instructors use extrinsic threats and punishments to try and persuade students not to cheat; this may or may not include using AI detectors to catch students.  The large language models (LLMS) and GAI tools are changing so fast that the AI detectors struggle to keep up with them, let alone research shows they are can be biased and inaccurate.  We could spend all of our time plugging student work into detectors or we could take time to reconnect with our students, our policies, and meaningful learning.  

Ensure students understand what you mean by GAI.

KSU's policy register defines GAI (3-01.8.B.15.) but some students are not aware of websites/software they use are AI-enabled or know, for example, the summary at the top of a Google search is GAI and may be prohibited by their instructor.  Feel free to use/edit to help introduce GAI to your students. 

Discuss your policy with students

Its not just about you having a policy but ensuring that students have the same understanding of your policy is crucial to its success.  You can have a class discussion about your policy or use a Yes, No, Whoa activity.   you can edit/use to help discuss AI policy with your students.  A Yes, No, Woah activity is where you discuss statements about GAI and students vote Yes, No, or Whoa on whether they agree with it or not.  You can of an example Yes, No, Whoa Activity.  Click here to learn more about policy development and implementation.

Provide reminders to students across semester

Students are taking 4-5 classes at a time and each class likely has a different GAI policy.  By adding a quick reminder indicator or description on each assignment regarding GAI use, you can help students remember what the specific policy is for that assignment in your course.  You can that you can use.

Be transparent about your use of GAI

Research shows that people have inaccurate assumptions about others use.  We can build trust with our students by disclosing if, how and/or why you used or did not use GAI in designing your course.  Click here to learn more about disclosure, view statements and visuals you can use in your class.

LEVEL-UP: Co-design a GAI Policy with Students

This prompts students to have more buy-in, clearer understanding and empower them.  This could start with a draft/partial policy elements or with a discussion about students current relationship with AI, its value in learning and ethical issues, how its view in your specific field or context and course expectations.  Be sure to give time for students to review it after development, ask questions and allow for edits. 

Appeal to Students Through Deeper Meaning

A transparent purpose of an assignment can improve student learning (insert research).  Student motivation for completing an assignment improves when it is perceived as more relevant to the student.  This relevance could be a connection to their real life/daily life, their career/job, or their opinion/belief.  Allowing students to embrace the personal and have their voice heard can motivate them to complete the assignment without GAI's support.  Connecting it back to ethical GAI use and the larger concerns with GAI may also be helpful.  

Help students connect with purpose

Add a "why this matters" to the assignment.  For example:  鈥淏y doing this, you will practice [skill x], which is used in [insert profession], and this prepares you for the [upcoming exam/project] by doing [task y]

  • Connect with a necessary skill development
  • Wanting students to share/find their voice / artistic representations
  • Help students to see how they can draw on their strengths to be successful at the assignment
Add elements of relevance

While you could try to connect the relevance to students, asking them to do it can be more meaningful.  Ask students to write one paragraph or record an audio/video clip of them explaining how a concept from the assignment relates to a [insert class discussion/specific resource/personal experience/etc.], or how it applies to a specific career goal. 

Connect ethical GAI use with their values

Have a discussion with students about what they value (i.e. respect from others, getting paid for their content, truth, honesty, etc.).  You can then use their values to place your reasons why you do not want students to use GAI.  You can remind them GAI output can be wrong and is innately bias.  You could also mention the sustainability issues related to GAI, privacy and copyright concerns.  To learn more about these ethical concerns and how GAI supports and hinders learning, feel free to edit/use used in a discussion with students about ethical GAI use.   

Design for Integrity

There are many reasons why students use GAI.  While some knowingly use it when its not permitted, others may be unaware how they are using a tool (they didn't realize was enhanced with GAI) was inappropriate.  Other reasons students use GAI are related to their fear of failure, need to turn something in at a deadline and/or not knowing where to start or what the final product could/should look like.  The strategies in this section are intended to lesson those pressures more generally, therefore decreasing the likelihood of students using GAI on the assignment.  

Add Time for Clarifications

When students receive assignments, have designated time during class or a discussion board for students to ask questions about the assignment.  Also invite students to come to your office student hours with any further questions.  Remind students its better to get clarification from the instructor rather than ask other students their interpretation, have GAI interpret for them or do something not knowing if they are on the right track.  

Consider the Stakes (% of Grade) for Process

Ensure that that a significant portion of the grade is based on the process (drafts, reflections, peer feedback, etc.).  Scaffold by setting deadlines for parts of the project to ensure steady progress.  For example:  make 录 of the points associated with a pitch, self-evaluation of the assignment or annotated bibliography due 2 weeks earlier.

Elements to Relieve Pressure / Add Manageable Flexibility

Consider giving every student one 鈥渟lip day鈥 per semester they can use on any assignment or allows students to turn in assignments within 24 hours of the deadline without consequences.  Implement a 48-hr grace period where students can earn a maximum of a B+ on the assignment, reducing the 鈥渁ll or nothing鈥 panic.  Have students make a plan/timeline for completing to assignment and have them turn in reflections related to how they are doing with regards to that timeline or respond to prompts like 鈥淲hat are two things I will do this week (by [date]) to begin working on this assignment?鈥 or 鈥淚f I am not able to complete this assignment on time, what options will I discuss with my instructor (choosing a late submission date, choosing to submit part of the assignment on time, other options that work for your course)?鈥

Help Students Understand Expectations

Share a past anonymized student鈥檚 work or GAI generated work with comments on why it earned full credit.  Have students critique a mediocre example you designed (with or without GAI) using a rubric and discuss what could be done to improve the example.

Looking for more?  

Feel free to email ctl@kent.edu for a consultation or check out the other assignment strategies related to GAI.  

  • GAI Assignment Susceptibility Tool:  This quick and easy tool asks you yes or no questions regarding characteristics of assignments that may increase the likelihood of students using alternative means/shortcuts to finish the assignment (i.e. GAI, another student, google, etc).
  • General Redesign Strategies:  These suggests are aligned with making assignments more AI-resistance and fall within two main categories, (re)focusing students on the process rather than the product, and adding friction points making using GAI more work than its worth.  
  • Strategies to Integrate GAI into Assignments:  Do you feel like you are losing a never ending battle by prohibiting GAI?  You may want to consider assignments that help students understand why its prohibited, like critiquing GAI output, or find examples of how you integrate GAI into your assignments to help students gain more critical thinking/evaluation skills.