AI course policies
Approaches
As you read sample AI course policies (below) and write or revise your own, you can consider the following questions:
- What kind of relationship do I want to build with students in my courses?
- What do I want students to know about my role as a teacher?
- To what extent do my assignments effectively build skills?
- To what extent do my assignments effectively assess learning?
- When and how should students disclose their use of AI?
- How much support from AI is too much (detracts from learning)?
- How can I build and maintain enough trust with students to openly discuss AI?
The responses to some of these questions can become the intro or rationale for your course policy.
Co-creating AI policy with students
One option available to faculty is to co-create an AI course policy with students. This approach raises awareness about the policy among students and increases buy-in.
The following questions can guide the process and help students clarify their thinking about AI use:
- How should AI be used and not used in college? In this course?
- How do you feel about the possibility of your classmates using AI to do homework?
- What helps you learn?
- How could AI support your learning?
- What skills do you hope to get out of this course? Which of these skills can and cannot be performed by AI (google if unsure)?
- What, if any, moral concerns do you have about AI?
- When should a student state that they used AI and when is it not necessary? Why?
- If you were to create a course policy on AI, what would be the three most important guidelines?