Student AI Guidelines

As with the use of any resource, students at TXST are expected to know whether AI tools can be used in their courses. If a professor does not have an AI usage statement in their syllabus, students are encouraged to ask them directly whether AI tools can be used in their course.

Students are responsible for the content produced for the course. Unauthorized AI use can be treated as analogous to assistance from another person or resource. Many of the existing examples listed in the Honor Code, including Cheating, Collaboration and Collusion, Fabrication, and Plagiarism, also extend to using generated-AI materials or other AI-powered tools like Chrome Extensions.   

Students are responsible for following course- and/or assignment-specific AI policies. If a professor has not permitted the use of AI tools, then using the generative AI function in Grammarly or CoPilot to create part of a draft may violate the Honor Code. If the professor allows the use of these tools, or others like them, please make sure you follow any disclosure requirements (e.g., citation, addendum, etc.).    

Grammarly has two sets of tools. If you plan to use Grammarly and your professor has banned the use of AI tools, please make sure you have turned the generative AI function off. For more information, please see Grammarly’s Introducing generative AI assistance.   

• Grammarly’s core grammar and revision tools (spelling, clarity, fluency, tone) are reactive. They provide in-line suggestions based on what a student has already written, helping improve what’s there, but not writing it for them. These tools are typically viewed as learning aids.
• Grammarly’s generative AI, by contrast, can be used to generate or rephrase content using prompts. While it’s a student-directed tool (not predictive or automatic), it still carries the same academic integrity risks as ChatGPT or Copilot if used improperly.  

There has been growing concern about the use of Chrome extensions to complete online assignments and assessments. We have seen an uptick in students using AI to answer assignment questions, either by copying/pasting questions into AI (such as ChatGPT) or by having an AI browser extension answer the question for them. Please note that even if your assignment is not proctored, many platforms used by faculty are monitoring the use of Chrome extensions, and your professor may be notified of their use. Whether this violates the Honor Code policy will depend on the professor’s course policy.