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Guidelines for the use of GenAI in assessment

8 September 2025

The use of Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) in teaching, exams, and assignments has been a topic of discussion for some time now, but what are the rules you, as a student, must adhere to?

For all students at the Faculty of Humanities, the rules and guidelines regarding the permitted and prohibited use of GenAI in exams/tests have now been clearly outlined. The core message remains: GenAI use for gradable texts/assignments is not permitted unless the lecturer decides otherwise. But even in cases where GenAI use (including, for example, machine translation) is permitted by a lecturer, it's important to know what is and was is not allowed and what the caveats and risks of AI use are. And how can you be transparent about your AI use by properly citing it, just like any other source you use in writing assignments?

Please make sure you know the Faculty’s rules and guidelines:

Guidelines for the use of GenAI in assessment

Also, be sure to familiarise yourself with the workings of large language models (LLMs) and GenAI, their limitations, and the ethical questions raised by their use. You can do this by following two online modules:

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