Faculty Decision Matrix

Faculty Matrix Tool for Generative AI Policies

Faculty Matrix Tool for Generative AI Policies As we encourage students to ask clarifying questions about Generative AI (GenAI)—that is, if it is allowed in our courses and, if so, to what extent—the following matrix is meant to help us develop course policies about GenAI and prepare for some of those student questions.

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Reading & Researching

Questions	Allowable/Prohibited/Mixed Use	Why?
Is it allowable to use GenAI to explain keywords or concepts?	[Insert your decision if it is allowable]	[What led you to make this decision?]
Is it allowable to use GenAI to summarize a text?	[Insert your decision if it is allowable]	[What led you to make this decision?]
Is it allowable to use GenAI to paraphrase a text?	[Insert your decision if it is allowable]	[What led you to make this decision?]
Is it allowable to use GenAI to suggest keywords, journals, scholars in a field, or a school of thought?	[Insert your decision if it is allowable]	[What led you to make this decision?]

Understanding an Assignment Prompt

Questions	Allowable/Prohibited/Mixed Use	Why?
Is it allowable to use GenAI to summarize, paraphrase, or explain an assignment prompt?	[Insert your decision if it is allowable]	[What led you to make this decision?]
Is it allowable to ask GenAI questions about discipline or genre in an assignment?	[Insert your decision if it is allowable]	[What led you to make this decision?]
Is it allowable to ask GenAI to create a model text or explain how to create parts of an assignment (e.g. a literature review)?	[Insert your decision if it is allowable]	[What led you to make this decision?]

Outlining & Drafting

Questions	Allowable/Prohibited/Mixed Use	Why?
Is it allowable to use GenAI to brainstorm ideas before starting to write?	[Insert your decision if it is allowable]	[What led you to make this decision?]
Is it allowable to generate an outline using GenAI?	[Insert your decision if it is allowable]	[What led you to make this decision?]
Is it allowable to generate the first draft of an assignment using GenAI?	[Insert your decision if it is allowable]	[What led you to make this decision?]
If it is allowable to use GenAI throughout drafting, are there requirements for citing GenAI?	[Insert your decision if it is allowable]	[What led you to make this decision?]
Should citing take place through sentence-level citations, a disclosure statement, or both?	[Insert your decision if it is allowable]	[What led you to make this decision?]
Are there models for the requirements for citing?	[Insert your decision if it is allowable]	[What led you to make this decision?]
If the same prompt can generate a different response, should all prompts and responses be saved as an addendum to a piece of writing?	[Insert your decision if it is allowable]	[What led you to make this decision?]

Revising and/or Editing

Questions	Allowable/Prohibited/Mixed Use	Why?
Is it allowable to use GenAI to obtain suggestions for organization, structure, or content of an existing draft?	[Insert your decision if it is allowable]	[What led you to make this decision?]
Is it allowable to use GenAI to identify sentence-level suggestions or corrections?	[Insert your decision if it is allowable]	[What led you to make this decision?]

Other Cases of Composing

Questions	Allowable/Prohibited/Mixed Use	Why?
Is it allowable to use GenAI for computational or research practices? (e.g. assignments involving calculations, formulas, or statistics?)	[Insert your decision if it is allowable]	[What led you to make this decision?]
Is GenAI allowable in visual or multimodal forms, such as for generating images, audio, or video?	[Insert your decision if it is allowable]	[What led you to make this decision?]

Resources

Some additional resources for “citations” may include the following:

A disclosure statement could involve the following:

I acknowledge the use of [specific GenAI system] to [explain specific function(s)]. The prompts used included the following: [list prompts]. I used the output generated from these prompts to [explain use].