Used AI in Coursework - Will i get expelled?
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Reply 20
Hi there OP,
Wishing you the best of luck in your hearing.
You have to be very careful with using AI to help you with assessments. Not only is AI very bad for the environment, it can give inaccurate information and prevent you from gaining the skills you'll learn from writing critically yourself.
Some universities do allow you to use AI as an alternative to google or to give you ideas or summary points on a topic, but using AI to write whole chunks of assignment is almost always not appropriate and can lead to penalisation (which you don't want and is really not worth it!).
If in doubt or unsure and your uni's policy on academic integrity isn't clear, then contact your personal tutor - they might be able to guide you on where the line is between using AI responsibly and irresponsibly. If it is a first offence and you are honest about it, you are not likely to be expelled.
Try not to worry about what's happened in the past, just take this as a learning opportunity!
Best of luck again, and best wishes 🙂
University of Bath
Wishing you the best of luck in your hearing.
You have to be very careful with using AI to help you with assessments. Not only is AI very bad for the environment, it can give inaccurate information and prevent you from gaining the skills you'll learn from writing critically yourself.
Some universities do allow you to use AI as an alternative to google or to give you ideas or summary points on a topic, but using AI to write whole chunks of assignment is almost always not appropriate and can lead to penalisation (which you don't want and is really not worth it!).
If in doubt or unsure and your uni's policy on academic integrity isn't clear, then contact your personal tutor - they might be able to guide you on where the line is between using AI responsibly and irresponsibly. If it is a first offence and you are honest about it, you are not likely to be expelled.
Try not to worry about what's happened in the past, just take this as a learning opportunity!
Best of luck again, and best wishes 🙂
University of Bath
(edited 10 months ago)
Reply 21
Any update here? Here is the issue. By using the fake summary, this was easy to spot. If you are going to cheat, you need to be mindful of how to use AI. There is the smart way and the dumb way. There is NO chance a university can be 100% certain you cheated with AI. UNLESS the mistakes are so obvious like faking a summary of the citations or making up citations. There is nothing wrong (with most unis) in using AI and sourcing it, if it was for a small idea, etc. YOu can use AI to help you put together an outline and/or give you ideas. The best case scenario is to upload sources you need to use and have AI help you with some ideas. But then you NEED to use your own words and make the writing yours. I have had friends at some of the TOP unis in the UK do complete essays using AI this last semester. But they first collected all of the sources they were going to use. IT takes time. Then they put together a simple outline (their own outline) of they wanted the models to focus on. THye already had a conclusion in mind and added that. Then they used a combo of Gemini, and o3 and LM and reran them back and forth to humanize it, cross checked the references were correct and Boom. They had 18.6 and 19 in their 2nd year History assignments.
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by AnonymousAny update here? Here is the issue. By using the fake summary, this was easy to spot. If you are going to cheat, you need to be mindful of how to use AI. There is the smart way and the dumb way. There is NO chance a university can be 100% certain you cheated with AI. UNLESS the mistakes are so obvious like faking a summary of the citations or making up citations. There is nothing wrong (with most unis) in using AI and sourcing it, if it was for a small idea, etc. YOu can use AI to help you put together an outline and/or give you ideas. The best case scenario is to upload sources you need to use and have AI help you with some ideas. But then you NEED to use your own words and make the writing yours. I have had friends at some of the TOP unis in the UK do complete essays using AI this last semester. But they first collected all of the sources they were going to use. IT takes time. Then they put together a simple outline (their own outline) of they wanted the models to focus on. THye already had a conclusion in mind and added that. Then they used a combo of Gemini, and o3 and LM and reran them back and forth to humanize it, cross checked the references were correct and Boom. They had 18.6 and 19 in their 2nd year History assignments.
I had my hearing last friday and they appreciated that I was honest, the hearing was short and I think it went pretty well
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by BlazingBoomerI have my hearing today. Wish me luck, i'll update you on how it went.
Hey how did it go?
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by AnonymousThey had 18.6 and 19 in their 2nd year History assignments.
You realise degree level assignments are marked out of 100 and 18.67 and 19 are failing grades at every university in the UK?
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by artful_loungerYou realise degree level assignments are marked out of 100 and 18.67 and 19 are failing grades at every university in the UK?
There’s a couple of UK unis that have an odd GPA type system where a module mark is awarded out of 20 or similar. Could be one of those?
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by Admit-OneThere’s a couple of UK unis that have an odd GPA type system where a module mark is awarded out of 20 or similar. Could be one of those?
Really? I've never come across that at any of the unis I've been at. The only one that didn't have the typical breakdown was the OU and even that was out of 100 and just had different "grade boundaries" so to speak...pretty unusual if so.
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by Admit-OneThere’s a couple of UK unis that have an odd GPA type system where a module mark is awarded out of 20 or similar. Could be one of those?
Dundee?
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by ageshallnotDundee?
Not one that I see many apps from, although it could do! I think it was Lancaster that I was thinking of but I haven’t got my equivalency notes with me.
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by artful_loungerReally? I've never come across that at any of the unis I've been at. The only one that didn't have the typical breakdown was the OU and even that was out of 100 and just had different "grade boundaries" so to speak...pretty unusual if so.
Bristol apparently allow the use of a 0-20 scale (as well as the usual 0-100), according to https://www.bristol.ac.uk/academic-quality/assessment/regulations-and-code-of-practice-for-taught-programmes/marking-criteria/
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