Student AI Guidelines

You may use AI for an assessment if the instructions in your Course Outline permit its use. 

UNSW College has created a 3C Model to help you understand when AI is permitted for an assessment. 

Please click on the PDF document below to read about the 3C Model. 

UNSW College recommend that students use the College Microsoft Copilot AI Tool.

For example, this tool can help you to:

• Create practice quizzes or exam questions to prepare for a test.
• Revise skill level in mathematics and identify areas for improvement.
• Summarise lecture and tutorial notes to revise learning.
• Create realistic scenarios or case studies to comprehend how theoretical knowledge can be applied to real world situations.
• Produce synthetic datasets that mimic real-world data to practice analysis and interpretation skills.
• Reflect on inputs (i.e., prompts), outputs (text, image, audio or combination) and annotations to further develop your work.

Why Microsoft Copilot?

In May 2024, UNSW activated Microsoft Copilot with Commercial Data Protection for all staff and students with a zID. The protected version provides staff and students with a secure platform to ensure that sensitive information is securely stored and accessed only by authorised staff.

All UNSW College staff and students have access to Microsoft Copilot with Commercial Data Protection. Where the use of generative AI is allowed as part of coursework and/or assessment, this is the only generative AI platform recommended for UNSW College staff and students. The platform offers enhanced security, improved functionality and a better user experience.

To read about Microsoft Copilot’s internal release at UNSW please click here.

Sign in here or access the user guide here.

If an AI assessment icon says you can refine your writing with AI tools or as a copyediting tool, you may be permitted to use these tools for the following:

• Refine spelling and grammar.
• Revise style and tone.
• Improve clarity and coherence of writing.
• Improve vocabulary.
• Check your document for similarity to online sources.
• Assist in proofreading.
• Self-mark an assessment against a marking rubric.

Please carefully read your Course Outline and Assessment information. If you are unsure how AI can be used for an assessment, please speak to your teacher.  

You might like to explore the Microsoft Copilot Lab for ideas. The lab includes tutorials that can show you how Copilot AI could be used to support your study. For example, there is a tutorial on how to refine your writing with Microsoft Copilot.

If you are permitted to use AI for part or all of your assessment, you must: 

• Acknowledge and reference the AI tool using the referencing style for your course and program. For example,  APA Style Referencing 7th edition.
• Please make sure that it is appropriate for you to use generated images, audio files and/or computer codes that have been generated by AI for an assessment task.