School and Faculty Education Directors are encouraged to: 

• Talk to staff and students about categories of AI use in assessment and discuss the default category of AI use (minimal) for the types of assessments commonly used in their disciplines. 

• Review the use of Turnitin AI writing detection within their area of responsibility and decide whether to persist with its use until the next university checkpoint at the end of 24/25. 

Programme and unit teams are encouraged to:  

• Provide students with clear guidance on the category of AI use permitted for each assessment, working within any school- or faculty-level positions 

• Review your assessments for susceptibility to student AI use and refine accordingly. 

• Talk to students about the learning objectives of their unit/year of study, and the ways in which various uses of AI within their learning and study may or may not support the achievement of those objectives 

• Recommend that students use Microsoft Co-pilot through the Edge browser as the default, universally available generative AI tool, where one is needed. 

• Engage in playful and experimental use of generative AI with students, where this fits the purpose of your teaching and will support student learning.  

All staff are asked not to: 

• Upload student work to externally-hosted AI tools, unless this tool has been authorised for use by IT Services. Please contact your IT Business Partner if you are unsure whether this is the case. 

• Input any data rated as confidential or above – through the University data classification schema - which includes any sensitive or personal information to any AI tools, unless these have been provided by IT Services having gone through appropriate processes to protect University IP and to meet our legal, contractual and framework obligations. 

• Use AI to mark or generate staff feedback on student work, unless this has been discussed in advance with your SED/FED and the AI in education team at ai-education@bristol.ac.uk who may enable you to undertake an authorised pilot.  

We've created four categories to consider where you assessment lies in regard to integration of AI. Read more about them here.

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