Tool for Determining Allowable Uses of AI

The Office of Teaching and Learning and McLaughlin Library’s Writing Services co-created a tool to help instructors determine what uses of generative artificial intelligence (AI) that they would allow in their courses, specifically with writing assignments. The tool includes: 

• encouragement to communicate with your students about generative AI and build AI literacy 

• guidance on defining skills-based learning outcomes 

• an editable checklist that instructors can use to clearly define allowable and non-allowable uses of generative AI for specific assessments or in their course outline 

The tool is in a downloadable document form here via the Library’s Digital Learning Commons.

From this tool focusing on writing assignments, OTL seeks to expand a collection of tools to determine allowable uses of AI for different types of assessments. If you have ideas for your discipline or assessment type, please contact us at otl@uoguelph.ca to discuss creating an additional tool that can be shared here.