AI Academic Policies
As AI becomes more integrated into teaching and learning, Mizzou is establishing clear expectations for its use in the classroom. The MU Faculty Council on University Policy and the Graduate Faculty Senate have approved the AI Syllabus policy, the AI Use Scale policy, AI Grading and Feedback policy, and the AI Detection Tools policy to help faculty navigate the use of AI in instruction and assessment.
Recommendations for teaching writing
As AI writing tools evolve, a focus on the connection between writing and learning becomes even more crucial. To help combat misuse, CWP encourages instructors to highlight the ways that writing is a vehicle for learning content to establish a culture of academic integrity that prioritizes critical thinking. AI writing programs produce essay frames, but they do not include the discipline-specific elements of writing–i.e., voice, appropriate evidence and citation, and deep analysis–which make WI courses powerful learning experiences.
Practically, instructors can take GenAI into consideration by:
- Designing assignments that involve producing and analyzing AI-generated writing to examine the strengths and weaknesses it displays
- Engaging students in the process of writing by requiring students to submit steps of the essay generation process (e.g., proposal, outline, essay introduction, source summary/comment on use) and receive feedback on those steps to build the complete draft
- Increasing use of in-class writing–both informal writing for learning and formal writing for assessment
- Requiring students to include specific evidence (ex: course readings, peer-reviewed articles, or a specific set of sources provided to students) in their writing assignments.
- Expanding the genres and modes of assigned student writing. Consider asking students to produce a multimodal or multimedia text (ex: podcast, infographic, map, animation)
Any Questions?
Reach out to the Campus Writing Program at https://cwp.missouri.edu/contact and we’d be happy to sit down with you to discuss what GenAI means for your classroom.