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Generative artificial intelligence (AI) refers to chatbots, text generators, visual generators, and audio generators designed to create content in response to a user’s prompt or request. Examples of current Generative AI tools include but are not limited to Open AI’s ChatGPT, Microsoft’s CoPilot, and Anthropic’s Claude as well as undetectable.ai and other similar tools designed to further humanize text.
TCC recognizes the growing impact of AI on education and strives to create a learning environment that promotes academic integrity and responsible use of technology. Generative AI offers innovative opportunities for learning, and its use also poses risks. For any use of Generative AI, maintaining academic integrity is essential to student success. Unapproved use of Generative AI in coursework puts academic integrity at risk..
In any use of Generative AI, students must maintain academic integrity and follow instructor guidance for responsible use and citation for coursework and related communication. All students retain responsibility for work produced with the assistance of AI and acknowledge AI output and programming can result in false, incomplete, inaccurate, or biased results and/or include copyrighted or other protected material.
Student use of Generative AI should in ways that do not align with Instructor Course Requirements (ICR), syllabus, and/or individual assignment guidelines violates student conduct guidelines that define cheating, dishonesty, electronic media violations, falsification, and plagiarism as outlined in TCCD Student Handbook (Article III, sections 5, 12, 20, and 31), TCCD Board Policy FLB (LOCAL), and Acceptable Use Guidelines for Computing and Technology Resources.
Reported violations of conduct guidelines, including student use of Generative AI that does not align with instructor guidelines, are managed through the college’s administrative conduct procedures as outlined in the TCCD Student Handbook Article VI: Administrative Conduct Procedures, which may involve up to three steps: Investigation, Administrative Conference, and Appeal (if requested).
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