UCC Policy

UCC Policy

UCC's Academic Integrity for Examinations and Assessments policy states the following regarding use of GenAI:

"Academic Integrity is breached if students submit the products of GenAI as their own work without acknowledgement and without authorisation to use GenAI in fulfilling the task."

This means that the use of GenAI is not banned at UCC as a whole, but that you need to ensure that you do two things if/when you use it for your academic work:

Check with your lecturer/tutor/module coordinator to see if GenAI use is allowed in the assessment(s) for that particular module, and to what level it is allowed. This can vary from module to module and you may not be allowed to use it at all in some modules, while others may allow its use only for certain tasks. This is because use of GenAI for certain assessments or tasks may lead you to miss out on developing and demonstrating the key skills/learning that the assessment requires - these are things you need to be able to do on your own. If you use GenAI where it is not permitted, this will be considered academic misconduct (unauthorised use). It is your responsibility to ensure that you are aware if GenAI use is permitted or not in your assessment.

Where GenAI use is permitted (authorised) in an assessment, you need to acknowledge where and how you used GenAI. This allows those marking your work to understand what is your own work and what GenAI has contributed. More information on how to acknowledge GenAI use is provided on the next page, but if your Department/School/Module/Lecturer provide specific guidance for how to do this, always follow that. If you do not acknowledge your use of GenAI, this will be considered academic misconduct.

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