How do you deal with a student who appears to be blatantly copying and pasting from an AI generator into their submitted work and Lopeswrite doesn't identify plagiarism?
OfflineMirta Ramirez-Espinola(Author) said 14 months ago
Shayla Holmes, I can usually find an exact copy of the AI and send it to them and send them this image as a warning. I will reassign it the first time and say it needs to be in their own words. I also have Grammarly, (I pay for it out of pocket), which helps catch AI. I would say warning first, reassign; then if they keep doing it, it's a zero. (Then, you have to report it if you can prove it).
If you have other work that they post or when they post to peers, and it clearly sounds different from their other posts, then there is proof.
Also, you may have some ELL adult students, so you can tell them they can use grammar apps to check to help them write a correct sentence, but it still needs to be in their own words.
Mirta
OfflineMirta Ramirez-Espinola(Author) said 14 months ago
I would also add these announcements prior to the class starting. This will help eliminate most of the issues. Mirta
Excellent Resource, Mirta! I would like to offer this to all of my learners in Topic 1. Do you know how I would go about citing your work?
Much needed in my classes. I have noticed that if I approach learners early in the semester in my feedback for discussion posts and assignments, they are usually very responsive and I am detecting more responsible use of GenAI content. My policies are clear about citing GenAI use, but I do not see many learners do this unless they are explicitly writing about artificial intelligence in their paper.
Side Note: At a recent educators conference I attended, one professor made a valid point about not citing AI. They said none of large language models' output are original content.
OfflineMirta Ramirez-Espinola(Author) said 9 months ago
If you are asking how to cite our articles we write, I would follow whatever format is required for the field you are in, for example, for the Education field it would be APA, or usually is, for the English field it would be MLA so that I would follow those formats. I am not sure if this is what your question asked.
Mirta Ramirez-Espinola Yes, I agree with whatever format is required as far as styling goes. However, my reference was more about How to Cite AI, or (according to that expert) if we even should cite it, because it cannot be considered original content.
I offer examples for citing AI in my policies, because I think it is necessary in some cases. I have heard that some professors require a link to the output so they can verify no verbatim similarity of content. Here are some of the examples I hope you might find useful:
OfflineMirta Ramirez-Espinola(Author) said 9 months ago
Kathryn Tomlinson Yes, there is actually a format for that. I know I was sent that in an email. I could not find the GCU link, but here is the link from the APA website.
Try Owl Purdue for both MLA and APA format. I usually refer to either the APA official page or Owl Purdue on these matters.
A lot of students writing skills or less than par. I have provided some college entry essay example for computer science, the courses I teach, to show them how easy it is to write a decent paper. However, when it comes to alleged plagiarism, a key red flag for me in the freshman and sophomore classes is a very refined post and no personality in the writing. Also, when two student's work coming back reading similar but reworded that also causes me to raise one of my thick eye brows and question "where did they get the info?"
I am curious as to how any of you track down the AI response, do you just put the prompt into google and look at the AI answer?
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How do you deal with a student who appears to be blatantly copying and pasting from an AI generator into their submitted work and Lopeswrite doesn't identify plagiarism?
Shayla Holmes, I can usually find an exact copy of the AI and send it to them and send them this image as a warning. I will reassign it the first time and say it needs to be in their own words. I also have Grammarly, (I pay for it out of pocket), which helps catch AI. I would say warning first, reassign; then if they keep doing it, it's a zero. (Then, you have to report it if you can prove it).
If you have other work that they post or when they post to peers, and it clearly sounds different from their other posts, then there is proof.
Also, you may have some ELL adult students, so you can tell them they can use grammar apps to check to help them write a correct sentence, but it still needs to be in their own words.
Mirta
I would also add these announcements prior to the class starting. This will help eliminate most of the issues. Mirta
Mirta Ramirez-Espinola Thanks! I will defintely use the Do's and Dont's! Helpful resource!
JodiAnn Pantry Thank you!
Shayla Holmes LOPESWRITE may catch some items. But we do not have LOPESWRITE in the DB. Mirta
Shayla Holmes thanks for asking this question. I came to the forum to see if anyone else had this issue!
Helpful
Ralph Sporay, it was emailed to all faculty, but since we receive so many emails, I thought I would post it here. Mirta
Excellent Resource, Mirta! I would like to offer this to all of my learners in Topic 1. Do you know how I would go about citing your work?
Much needed in my classes. I have noticed that if I approach learners early in the semester in my feedback for discussion posts and assignments, they are usually very responsive and I am detecting more responsible use of GenAI content. My policies are clear about citing GenAI use, but I do not see many learners do this unless they are explicitly writing about artificial intelligence in their paper.
Side Note: At a recent educators conference I attended, one professor made a valid point about not citing AI. They said none of large language models' output are original content.
Kathryn Tomlinson
If you are asking how to cite our articles we write, I would follow whatever format is required for the field you are in, for example, for the Education field it would be APA, or usually is, for the English field it would be MLA so that I would follow those formats. I am not sure if this is what your question asked.
Mirta
Mirta Ramirez-Espinola Yes, I agree with whatever format is required as far as styling goes. However, my reference was more about How to Cite AI, or (according to that expert) if we even should cite it, because it cannot be considered original content.
I offer examples for citing AI in my policies, because I think it is necessary in some cases. I have heard that some professors require a link to the output so they can verify no verbatim similarity of content. Here are some of the examples I hope you might find useful:
How to Cite Output for Ai.
Bing:
Microsoft. (2023). Bing (Aug 12 22H2 version) [Search engine].
Google Gemini:
Google. (2024). Google Gemini (Aug 26 1.5Pro version) [Large language
model].
ChatGPT:
OpenAI. (2024). ChatGPT (May 14 GPT-4o version) [Large language model].
Claude:
Claude. (2024). Claude (June 3.5 Sonnet version) [Chatbot].
DALL-E:
OpenAI. (2023). DALL-E (Oct 8 Dall-E 3version) [Image creator].
Kathryn Tomlinson Yes, there is actually a format for that. I know I was sent that in an email. I could not find the GCU link, but here is the link from the APA website.
Try Owl Purdue for both MLA and APA format. I usually refer to either the APA official page or Owl Purdue on these matters.
Mirta
https://guides.lib.purdue.edu/c.php?g=1371380&p=10135074
https://apastyle.apa.org/blog/how-to-cite-chatgpt
Mirta Ramirez-Espinola Wonderful Resources! Thanks so much, Mirta.
A lot of students writing skills or less than par. I have provided some college entry essay example for computer science, the courses I teach, to show them how easy it is to write a decent paper. However, when it comes to alleged plagiarism, a key red flag for me in the freshman and sophomore classes is a very refined post and no personality in the writing. Also, when two student's work coming back reading similar but reworded that also causes me to raise one of my thick eye brows and question "where did they get the info?"
I am curious as to how any of you track down the AI response, do you just put the prompt into google and look at the AI answer?