Make a decision on how to approach AI on your module

STEP 3: Make a decision on how to approach AI on your module

There are a couple of approaches that you can take to dealing with AI in assessment. This will depend on whether you perceive AI to be a threat to the integrity of your assessment strategy or an opportunity.

Use the interactive AI decision tree below (or download the PDF version of the AI decision tree) to help you think through some questions that you might have to ask yourself and arrive at potential outcomes. 

AI in education

Infographic: AI in education

Your options:

Option 1: Wait and see if there is an actual issue

If you don’t think inappropriate use of AI will be an issue for this assessment or you think the actual level of misconduct will be low either due to the characteristics of your cohort or the nature of the assessment, you might want to keep the assessment as it is for now and assess the situation later.

Option 2: Assess under invigilation

Exams are generally not considered to be an authentic method that genuinely assesses students’ understanding, however there are situations where invigilated exams can be valuable, especially in cases where the use of AI has to be completely excluded.

Option 3: Redesign your assessment

If you are in a position to make any changes to your assessment then you could think of redesigning it. Redesign can help to either limit the use of AI through a different task design, a different distribution of weighting or, if the ability to utilize AI is an important skill you want your students to develop, to embed AI into the assessment.