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Part 1: Some Suggestions From LAR  

Do you have an online exam, take home exam or term paper coming up?  Here are a few ideas to make your questions somewhat immune to ChatGPT.

1. Ask students to answer the question only using course content.
2. Ask students to apply the concepts of the question to a particular local issue, business, or location.  The more specific the better.
3. For take home exams and essays, require recent, peer-reviewed citations since ChatGPT at this point only has resources available up to 2021.
4. Require that the students incorporate personal stories and experiences in their response.
5. Provide students with a ChatGPT generated response to your question and ask them to apply course content to improve the response.
6. Provide a ChatGPT generated response to your question and ask students to analyze the quality of the response (and include citations, personal experiences, local issues, etc.)

For more information on ChatGPT and its implications in teaching and learning, contact Learning and Applied Research.

Part 2: Turnitin’s New AI-Writing Detection Feature

Turnitin will be introducing their new built in detection technology for identifying AI-generated writing on April 4!  It can identify almost all ChatGPT- authored academic writing with just a 1% false positive rate. Remember, you should communicate to students that you are using Turnitin. However, since this rate is not zero, the use of your professional judgment as well as knowledge of your students’ past efforts should be taken into account before considering an academic integrity violation.

Turnitin is offering two upcoming sessions for Using Turnitin Tools to Mitigate Student Use of AI Writing Tools:

• Wednesday, April 5th at 11:00 am CST register here
• Thursday, April 13th at 1:00 pm CST register here

For more information including resources, blogs, and tools for proactively preparing writing assignments check out the Turnitin AI-Writing website.