AI for Study & Research · Module 3 · Integrity and trust
Using AI without cheating yourself (or the rules)
6 min read · lesson 5 of 5
Institutions draw different lines — some ban AI outright, some expect it. But there is a line that does not depend on policy: the difference between AI that helped you learn and AI that replaced your thinking. Submit the second and you have paid for a course and skipped it.
Four uses almost no school objects to
- Explain — unpack a concept or a marked-down answer.
- Quiz — generate practice questions from your notes.
- Feedback — 'here is my draft outline; where is the argument weakest?'.
- Polish — fix grammar in text you wrote yourself.
The final sentences you submit should be written by you. Not for honour alone — because the exam hall has no chat window, and the skill has to live in your head.
Check your institution's actual policy before submission season, not after. 'I did not know' has never worked once.
Practice
Write out your own two-line rule for AI use this term, and follow it for one assignment.