Discussion Board

I would like to reflect on a case when a student used AI to polish his work but didn't acknowledge it, as he thought he wrote the draft and generated the key ideas by himself. The case involved an integrity issue, not because AI was used, but because its contribution was not acknowledged. Although he provided the key ideas, the original may be chaos and hard to comprehend, and AI may help to improve the language and coherence, leading to a higher grade. The appropriate action should be to explicitly acknowledge the AI tools at the end of his work. To avoid similar issues, clearer instructions should be developed to explicitly state the necessary acknowledgement of AI.

Just heard from a news, a student used AI to rewrite an essay without mentioning it. The ethical issue here is academic integrity—the student presented AI-generated text as their own work.

If I were the instructor, I would first discuss the situation privately with the student to understand their intention, then explain why transparency and honesty are essential in academic writing.

An appropriate action would be to give the student a chance to revise the essay with proper acknowledgment of AI assistance. To prevent similar cases in the future, teachers could clarify AI-use policies at the beginning of the course and provide examples of acceptable and unacceptable uses of AI in academic work.

And as a student, I need to understand the correct ways of using AI to avoid violating the rules.

Student A is a graduate student working on a research paper with a tight deadline. He finds a published article online that closely matches research topic. Instead of paraphrasing or citing the source, he copies several paragraphs directly into his paper and submits it as coursework. Later, the professor notices the similarity and confronts his with evidence of plagiarism.

This case involves the ethical issue of plagiarism, where Student A copied text from a published article without proper citation. The appropriate action would be for Student A to admit to the plagiarism, apologize to the professor, and accept any academic consequences as a learning opportunity. Transparency and accountability are crucial in maintaining integrity.

To prevent similar issues, universities should provide better education on academic integrity and offer resources that make it easier for students to cite sources correctly. Also, faculty and course instructor should encourage open dialogue about workload and pressures, so students feel comfortable seeking help when overwhelmed, rather than resorting to misconduct.

Student used technological tools in helping him to write paper. However, he didnt acknowledge this. As his supervisor, i have a real dilemma on reporting his behaviour to the senior/ discussing this with him/ leaving it. 

I think he didnt acknowledge this would be a grey area, he thought that i would not check and confuse about his presentation; but actually, it will make me think about his academic integrity as well as his personal integrity. 

Finally, i chose to discuss this with him, and of course, he did not feel happy about my questions. I asked him to alert his behaviour but he only thought that i was challenging him.

For prevention, i think we can ask students to submit a self-declaration form for submission of academic papers. 

Case: A student submits an English essay 100% translated (original written in Chinese, simply copied and pasted the translation text) by an AI text generator as their own original work. 

Submitting an AI-translated essay as original work constitutes a breach of academic integrity, primarily plagiarism and misrepresentation of writing skill. It misleads the instructor by falsely presenting the AI’s work as the student’s own. An appropriate action for the student involves rewriting the AI-translated version rather than making a direct copy-paste, and expressing it in own English wording. To prevent recurrence, educators should clearly define acceptable AI use in syllabi and emphasize the value of the learning process itself. Simultaneously, recommend AI plagiarism-checking software to students and incorporate it into the assignment review process.

It is not my own experience, I’ve only heard of the story.

Once in a group of discussion during some course, all students engaged activity, givng opinions and contributing to the outcomes to the course, while one member of the team used the outcomes to publish a paper without acquire negotiating with other members.

I think it is a case concerning academic integrity because this student plagiarized and used of collaboraive work unauthorized . To avoid this I think it is important to keep records like screenshots or recordings when in group activities.

I choose the first dilemma: A student used AI to rewrite an essay but didn't acknowledge. The main ethical issue I think is academic dishonesty, as the student misrepresented AI-generated work as their own. This undermines the learning process and the principle of authenticity in scholarship. An appropriate response would be to discuss the case with the student, clarify institutional policies, and decide on consequences proportionate to intent and impact, such as resubmission with proper acknowledgment. To prevent similar issues, I think educators should provide clear guidance on acceptable AI use, design assignment that require personal reflection or process documentation, and foster an academic culture that values integrity over convenience

A teacher use the  student’s work for publication but not include the name in the paper (or student do the majority work but his/her name was listed lower order in the author list ); this may related to cheating, fairness for this content, if ethical, the students’s name should be included in the publication or the name order should be reorganized based on contribution proportion, and it is necessary for university to provide a ethical consult committee for student able to report these kind of situation.  Or some contribution form create be used to list out the contribution and decide the order of authors.

During my time studying for a Master's in Public Health in the UK, there was a course that required group work. So, I teamed up with several Chinese classmates to do the assignment. One of the classmates couldn't do her part of the group assignment because she was on vacation. She used AI throughout without any declaration or citation, and the content generated was of very poor quality, which seriously hindered the progress of the group assignment.

This is an act of academic dishonesty. She should have declared which parts were generated by AI and found the correct sources to cite. The school should provide early academic integrity education and guidance and establish disciplinary measures for such behavior.

I feel that now a days we are fully occupied with the technology, it is really hard to keep ourselves away from the technology, we can not keep control over how students are completing their assignments, in previous days we were not having a lot of Ai tools which keeps us into an automatic academic integrity. There are a diverse issues needs to be discuss. because according to my knowledge it is still in developing stage, how we fix the criteria to set the limit to use it or how we monitor.