With the Cornell CTI survey showing 90% of students using GenAI, it is important to set expectations for your course in the syllabus and to give timely reminders.  Exploring GenAI yourself will aid in understanding the tools and limitations.  Faculty can then explore how best to guide students in using GenAI broadly and in using specific AI tools in their own fields, with assignments that explore the power, limitations and hallucinations.  Students, as novices in your field, need to learn how to check their own work, and also any GenAI results or information  they use.

For further information see Guidance on GenAI Instruction in the College of Engineering. This provides information on:

• Policy – include a syllabus statement
• Principles – faculty role, academic integrity, primacy of learning
• Suggestions – starting points, learning outcomes, supporting academic integrity,
• Resources – syllabus statement templates, additional resource

Additional syllabus information and examples

MTEI Syllabus examples – rational for including a syllabus statement, examples, suggested assignment and assessment additions

CTI Syllabus Icons specifying AI usage – standardized icons used to represent different levels of allowed AI usage