Assignments with GAI in Mind
GAI has changed how students approach assignments. While you may want to AI-proof assignments, that is a feat that is becoming harder every day. We recommend you
- Try out Gemini and other tools yourself and learn how GAI would respond to your assignment.
- Go through the Decision-Making Tool to help you think about what to do with your assignment.
- Evaluate your assignment with the Susceptibility Checker.
If there is a strategy you've encountered that is not part of our resources, please click here to share it with us. We'd love to hear what other ways you encourage academic integrity related to GAI. You can check out general strategies that will decrease the likelihood of unauthorized use of GAI, redesign strategies, and considerations for integrating GAI into your assignment.
Assignments Susceptibility of GAI Use Tool: This quick and easy too asks you yes or not questions regarding characteristics of assignments that are associated with an increased likelihood of students using alternative means/shortcuts to finish the assignment (i.e. GAI, another student, google, etc).
Assignment Decision-Making Click-Through: Aren't sure if you should keep your assignment, change it, or add GAI to it, you can use this tool to think through some questions. It will guide you to resources that will help you move forward in each of your different situations.
General Strategies to Discourage GAI Use: These strategies do not require changing of assignments necessary but are additional ways to you encourage students to not use GAI. they range from educating about ethical GAI use, appealing to deeper meaning, and improving transparency of purpose/relevance/criteria/stakes/pressure related to the assignment.
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: You may not want your students to use GAI so here you will find examples of how you integrate GAI into your assignments to help students gain more critical thinking/evaluation skills.