Discussion Board

Sorry, I have not experience any ethical or integrity-related cases in my life.  During my postgraduate study, there are no LLM tools for me and my mates to use for my first year. But for the last two years, I have no classes to attend.

My mates and I use the LLM help me to write my manuscript. But most of the time, you have to rewrite it and polish it many times to make the structures and the words used align with your motivations. 

During the pandemic, certain classes I took require us to watch lecture recordings on the university's teaching platform. Activities like quizes and written discussions can be inserted inside the recordings and the video won't contiune until the student finish the actvitiy. Also, the video have to be completed in one setting. We cannnot freely ove across the playback bar and if you refersh or reopen the page, it will play from the beginning again. It caused me a lot of pain and trouble because I was back in China when taking this course (my university is in the US), and the internet speed is much slower at where I lived. Plus I might need to use VPN for some tasks and that there is a big time zone difference for me to effectively communicate with my instructor. 

This issue is caused by limited acess to the digital technologies. It will be better if the instructor ackowledge the diversity situtations of students during the pandemic and design the activities so that people with limited internet access can also complete the coursework. 

Case: When i was on my undergraduate studies, i have ever taking on some courses that required students to wirte codes for implementing some algorithms or finishing some tasks. Some students used LLMs to help them solve their assignments, and the LLMs did a good job. But the teacher asssitants found these dishonest behaviours by checking students' code to AI detection tools. And then teachers and TAs asked the students to clarify the reasons and hope they could acknowledge their cheating actions. Some did acknowledge, but there still were acclaiming they wrote codes by themselves. 

Reflections:

Students used the AI tools for their assignment is a type of cheating and Pplagiarism.

Students should write their codes mainly by themselves, with the help of AI.

To prevent similar case, teachers should conduct educations and introduce punishments for disobeys.

My most recent observed case of integrity-related case in learning is about punctuallity on task completion. 

I've worked as Scuba diving instructor previously. I observed that, some customer-students who took on online class for the theory session should have completed it before arriving to the island. Instead, some of them did not finish nor even started the online theory class and arrive to the dive shop empty minded. Without any prior knowledge, we cannot proceed the remaining practical session of the diving course with the said customer-students. As the nature of the course, both student and instructor will be entering underwater that is risky and limited verbal communication, thus we cannot allow the student to proceed with the fourse without learning the basic context knowledge regarding Scuba diving without refund to the said customer-student, as the punishment to their inpunctual of completing the online theory class.

Since the punctuallity on completing online theory class would define whether or not the customer-students can proceed with their vacation, the dive operators and instructors often keep in touch and urge the custimer-students to complete their online theory class prior embark on their vacation, to ensure they can proceed with the Sciba diving course as planned.

I want to say that when I was completing a course report, one of my classmates wanted to borrow my report for reference. However, in the end, what he wrote was almost exactly the same as mine. I believe he should have incorporated his own ideas based on the reference. I think this kind of situation can be prevented by providing him with writing ideas instead of the entire report.

As the students in departments like biology or chemistry usually do research to get data, and need to illustrate the data by bar charts or sth like that in the figures of a paper. But it is ussually very hrd to get the data we expect, so some of the students might choose fabrication. such as modifyinng some parts of the data or using photoshop/AI to edit the picture. But now, there are some AI tools to detect this kind of fabrication, and the authors of the papers will be reported and be requied to response. I think it will be a trend to pretend fabrication in paper works.

A student submitted a polished essay that didn’t match their usual writing. A quick conversation revealed they used AI to rewrite sections without citing it. The integrity issue is misrepresentation and potential plagiarism: the work presented is not entirely the student’s. I would meet the student, document the case, and follow the course policy: require a revised submission that transparently states any AI assistance, plus a short reflection on what they learned. Depending on policy, I would apply a proportionate penalty (e.g., grade reduction) and offer support on academic writing. To prevent repeats, I’d set clear AI-use rules in the syllabus, require an “AI disclosure” statement on every assignment, design drafts and in-class checkpoints, and teach how to critically use and cite AI tools.

In one class, a student used AI to rewrite an essay but did not acknowledge it. The ethical issue involved is academic honesty, as the student presented AI-generated content as their own work. This misrepresentation undermines fairness and the integrity of academic assessment. The appropriate action would be for the teacher to discuss the situation privately with the student, explain the importance of transparency, and require a revised submission with proper acknowledgment of AI assistance. To prevent similar cases, teachers should clearly outline policies on AI use, provide guidance on acceptable practices, and educate students about academic integrity in the digital era.

Case: A class of students was working on a take-home test which was intended to be done individually 

Reflection:

The ethical question in this case is the collaboration that is not authorized which is a violation of academic integrity. Although peer learning is a great idea, students disobeyed when given clear instructions and compromised the objectivity of the evaluation. This may have an impact on the accuracy of grading and unfair advantage on other students who have abided by the rules. A proper reaction would be the investigation of the case, the conversations with the students in question, and the imposition of any penalty, which is prescribed by the academic dishonesty policy. The chance to enlighten the students about the purpose of individual assessment and importance of personal responsibility should also be taken. To avert such cases, Lecturers may create more challenging to accomplish assessments by collaborating, incorporating reflective questions, or demanding process working. It can also be achieved by setting expectations at the beginning of the term by giving clear instructions and discussing the integrity.

As a student, we have to upload "Declaration and Acknowledgement of the Use of Gen AI Statement" before we submit our assessments. We need to declare some details if the assessments is completed with the help of AI,such as prompts, which AI tool and the generated responses.I think it is a good way to remind student to acknowledge AI tools in their articles.