What's the College's policy on AI?
Can I use ChatGPT?
How do I cite AI generated information?
Are there guidelines for using GenAI?
Can I use Generative Artificial Intelligence to complete assignments?
How can I talk to students about Academic Integrity and GenAI?
Is there a way for my students to use GenerativeAI on assignments?
Answer
Students
If you are looking for information to help you understand expectations around the use of AI and ChatGPT, please checkout and share the Libraries page from our Academic Integrity Guide, Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) and Academic Integrity (URL)
When using and citing information from AI resources -- when approved for use in the course by an instructor -- follow the Academic Writing and Citation : ChatGPT and other GenAI Guide (URL).
Staff
Staff can find out about the College's Academic Integrity policy as it relates to generative AI through staff forum (URL).
If you have any questions or require more specific guidance, please feel free to contact the RRC Polytech Academic Integrity Specialist for support AcademicIntegrity@rrc.ca.
Here are a few excerpts from the Policies Corporate Legal: A17 - Academic Integrity Procedures page (URL)
4.0 Classification of Academic Integrity Breaches
4.1
- Plagiarism involves representing Intellectual Output created by or belonging to someone else as if it were one’s own. Plagiarism includes but is not limited to:
- Using other’s Intellectual Output without attribution, presented as one’s own work;
- Paraphrasing other’s Intellectual Output without attribution;
- Using paraphrasing, translation or other artificial intelligence software to modify text and present the modified text as new work.
7.0 Determining the Level of Severity
7.2 Level One Breach
b. The academic work does not demonstrate the student’s knowledge, skills, and abilities (i.e., demonstrates knowledge, skills, and abilities gained from another source including person, resource or artificial intelligence); or resubmission of an assignment (self-plagiarism);
7.3 Level Two Breach
b. The academic work was completed by a source other than the student (i.e., other person, resource, artificial intelligence, self-plagiarism, contract cheating, and may represent a third-party resource found online);
Links & Files
- Policies and Corporate Legal : A17 – Academic Integrity Procedures Opens in new window
- Guide: Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) and Academic Integrity Opens in new window
- Staff Forum : ChatGPT and Academic Integrity Opens in new window
- Academic Writing and Citation : ChatGPT and other GenAI Opens in new window
- Guide: Evaluating source material from Generative AI Opens in new window