Gill Rowell We are hearing lots of students talking about the AI writing platform (our AP Language teacher even used it as a seminar topic) and parents sharing their observations of students "playing" with the features as entertainment, but as Chris Begeman says, cheating of this kind is not detectable so far, so aside from my gut instinct that a particular student is using it because the writing submitted is suddenly quite different from what I've received all year, I have no proof. Definitely interested in Turn It In's efforts to address what feels like a new Wild West for writing instruction! Thanks :)

Nicole Guertin It's certainly a hot topic at the moment! I'm sharing a recent blog post from Chris Caren our CEO which outlines our roadmap as we move into 2023. 

Jonas Larsson Apologies for the delay in responding to you, and at the risk of sharing another blog post, I hope that this message from our Chief Product Officer will help to assure you that we are in the midst of developing a user experience that can guide educators to identify
and evaluate work with traces of AI-assisted writing.  

I would also strongly encourage you (and other educators viewing this message) to sign up to help shape how our technology evolves in this area.

One final note, in lieu of technologies to detect AI-assisted writing, the following resources developed by our Teaching and Learning Innovations team may be of use from a pedagogical point of view. 

Jonas Larsson, I completely agree. Face-to-face assessments and exams will be the only way to ensure student's knowledge and skills are tested authentically. This is especially important in professional courses such as nursing science where essential medical and nursing knowledge is core to the future role of a registered nurse. The impact of plagiarism in electronic essays (and most courses now have 80% + of the course provision with the summative/final course assessment in a written electronic format) - while studying and submitting potentially plagiarised course work that is not easily detectable can lead to students completing the theory part of a professional course without being thoroughly examined. If this continues it will lead to future healthcare professionals qualifying (for the theory part of the course) with no solid knowledge and skills, and at the end of this, it will be patients and the public who are using healthcare services that will be impacted negatively. It is unsafe to allow a course to be heavily reliant on one mode of assessment, mainly the written essay format when we can see increas of AI-enabled writing platforms and/or apps. One of my colleagues commented that when she was marking the recent essay submissions, they were well written and not the usual standard for the same students who have submitted written coursework on previous occasions, however as Turnitin did not detect any plagiarism there was no action for the marking team to take and the students passed the module. 

Gill Rowell Thank you