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Artificial Intelligence (AI) Faculty Guide

Everything you need to know about Artificial Intelligence and it's effects on your classroom.

Plagiarism

An essay that is copy and pasted from ChatGPT is considered plagiarizing. There are now plenty of tools and software to be able to tell if your students have used AI to write their papers, so do not worry about trying to figure it out yourself. 

Citations

If using ChatGPT or other AI software to find information (not having it write for the student) is allowed, there are correct ways of citing these sources. 

Academic Integrity

Student Code of Academic Conduct

 

In fulfillment of obligations to the college community, each SPCC student is expected to comply with the Student Code of Academic Conduct. Therefore, students are prohibited from engaging in any conduct that materially or adversely affects the educational process including, but not limited to, the following:

Violation of Academic Integrity Policy

  1. Cheating is an attempt to use or actual use of unauthorized materials in any format to complete an academic exercise. Cheating also includes the communication of unauthorized information during an academic activity or exercise. Cheating includes but is not limited to, copying another student’s homework, class work, or required project (in part or in whole) and presenting it to the instructor as one’s own work; or giving, receiving, offering, and/or soliciting information on a quiz, test, examination, or other academic exercise.
  2. Plagiarism is the copying of any published work such as books, magazines, audiovisual programs, electronic media, and films, or copying the theme or manuscript of another individual.
  3. Self-plagiarism is the unauthorized use of one’s own previous work without the express permission of both the instructor to whom the previous work was submitted and the instructor to whom the work currently is being submitted.
  4. Fabrication/falsification is an attempt to deceive the instructor in their effort to fairly evaluate an academic exercise.
  5. Complicity in academic dishonesty refers to intentionally giving unauthorized assistance to someone else who engages in academic dishonesty.

At this time, students are NOT permitted to use generative AI in any capacity to complete their academic assignments without explicit instructor permission.