Using AI responsibly in assessments

Learn how to appropriately utilise AI within learning and assessments.

Using AI in your learning and assessments, particularly in your chosen discipline, can be helpful to support you in learning how to use AI in your future of work. However, it’s important to do so responsibly while ensuring that you show through your assessments your own knowledge, understanding, skills and critical thinking.

You should always review and fact check AI outputs and acknowledge the tool just as you would any content, ideas or media that you use in your assessments.

Know how to reference AI

Just like when we reference books, articles or websites in our assessments, if an AI tool has contributed ideas, text, images or other content to your work, you need to acknowledge it.

This includes:

Edited or paraphrased text from AI
Ideas and arguments AI has helped you develop
Images and graphs generated by AI.

AI referencing guidelines

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This depends on your course and instructions from your Course Coordinator.

Generally speaking, you can use AI to help you better understand the assessment or provide ideas for how to approach the assessment, however you should not rely on AI to do your assessments for you. Assessments are designed to help you understand how theory applies in the real world and are integral to supporting you to be prepared for work.

In some assessments, AI use may be encouraged to help you understand its role in your discipline and future of work.

If you’re unsure, always check with your Course Coordinator.

Everyone in a group assignment is collectively responsible for your final submission. If any part of the work breaches academic integrity, the whole group may be held accountable.

As with other aspects of group assignments where people might take different approaches, you may wish to discuss and agree on your group’s approach to AI early on and make sure all members understand the rules for your assessment.

If at any point you’re concerned about academic integrity, you should reach out to your Course Coordinator for advice.

Acknowledgement of Country

RMIT University acknowledges the people of the Woi wurrung and Boon wurrung language groups of the eastern Kulin Nation on whose unceded lands we conduct the business of the University. RMIT University respectfully acknowledges their Ancestors and Elders, past and present. RMIT also acknowledges the Traditional Custodians and their Ancestors of the lands and waters across Australia where we conduct our business - Artwork 'Sentient' by Hollie Johnson, Gunaikurnai and Monero Ngarigo.

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Using AI responsibly in assessments