Guidance on the use of Artificial Intelligence

Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) Apps offer students many opportunities to support their learning or work creatively, but over-reliance on these tools could lead to poor academic practice or academic misconduct. 

London Metropolitan University is aware of the high-profile discussions and debates about the use of Artificial Intelligence Apps such as MS Bing chat Copilot, ChatGPT and Google Gemini for text and Adobe Firefly, Midjourney and DALL-E for images. The University helps its students to produce their own work with confidence in many ways, including support with understanding assessments, research, academic writing and referencing. This will include navigating the use of new and emerging AI technologies. Our approach to AI is to engage with and adapt to these new technologies, with a focus on appropriate and responsible use. 

The University's principles are outlined on the Academic Misconduct pages. For general guidance about the use of Generative AI in your studies, visit London Metropolitan University's AI Guide on Library Guides.

For specific guidance related to your subject speak to your course leader or any member of the teaching staff.

Academic Integrity means being honest in your academic work and your studies and making sure that you acknowledge the work of others and giving credit where you have used other people's ideas as part of presenting your arguments. Your assessment submissions must therefore always be entirely your own work, based on your own learning and appropriately referenced including how you have used Generative AI. The University regards the use of Generative AI applications by students to deceive to gain unfair advantage as academic misconduct. This usage includes: 

  • Plagiarism, where AI tools are used to generate output and ideas that are presented or submitted as if they were the student's own work, without proper citation or references. 
  • Where a complete assignment is created using Generative AI and represented as a student's own work, this will be regarded as contract cheating n the same way as commissioning an 'Essay Mill' or other third party to complete your work. 

The exception will be for tasks where the extensive and critical use of a specific AI tool to is part of the assessment brief. We also urge caution when it comes to the use of generative AI apps as research tools because the information, they present is not always trustworthy or accurate 

  • AI tools sometimes invent information and references when they cannot find it. This is called 'hallucinating.' 
  • They do not always have access to information in books or sites which are in password protected areas or behind firewalls. 
  • AI tools do not have access to the most recent research. 

Because of these limitations, using them without care can have a negative impact on your work. 

If you require help with your academic writing or research:

1.Speak to your Course Leader they can give you direct subject related advice about the assignments you are working on.

2. Visit London Metropolitan University AI Guide for Students on Library Matters  

3. Visit Library Matters, a resource that will help you to learn how to find and use information for your studies and assessments.

4. Your school's Academic Mentors can help you to understand is required for your assessment and to find the right resources.

5. Your Subject Librarian can help you with finding and using information for your studies https://libguides.londonmet.ac.uk/subject-guides 

    Read the University's Academic Misconduct policy.

    Read the University's Academic Regulations.

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