Artificial Intelligence (AI) Student Resource Guide

Your first step should always be to check with the instructor of each of your courses to find out their rules for using ChatGPT and similar Generative AI tools. Instructors may also have a specific way they would like you to reference or cite the AI tool.

Familiarize yourself with NWTC's Generative AI Policy, as well as the Academic Integrity section of the Student Handbook.

“A cute little robot looking at a big book titled "Ethics" in a library" prompt, Adobe Firefly, 30 Jan 2024, firefly.adobe.com. 

NWTC Students, Staff, and Faculty who use AI to assist in work are expected to:

• evaluate content created by AI and check for unintended outcomes
• not submit any AI generated work product as their own
• not use AI for any activity that violates laws, student conduct policy, Title IX, or any of the existing NWTC policies 
• abstain from using any Personally Identifiable Information (PII), Intellectual Property(IP), NWTC proprietary or confidential information with any AI tools because open use generative AI tools collect the data provided and may be shared with others outside of the college.

This policy serves as the foundation for AI-based interaction that supports the proper use of technology found in the student handbook, syllabus template, technology acceptable use policy, and employee handbook.

According to the Academic Integrity section of the NWTC Student Code of Conduct,  plagiarism is "to steal and pass off (the ideas or words of another) as one’s own …[to] present as new and original an idea or product derived from an existing source" (Webster’s Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary, 898)."

A student may be found responsible of violating the academic integrity policy for conduct such as: 

• Submits a paper, examination, computer program, project, speech or assignment as his or her own work if someone else prepared it. 
• Copies verbatim (word-for-word) the written materials of others without putting such words in quotation marks and/or without documenting the source of those words.  
• Paraphrases (puts into the student’s own words) the ideas of others without documenting the source of these ideas. 
• Copies the artistic creations of others without documenting the source of those ideas.  
• Copies a table, chart, diagram, or any illustration without documenting the source. - Uses terminology or concepts created by another without documenting the source.  
• Presents false, fabricated, or altered information or data to support the thesis or main idea of the work.  
• Submits the same assignment for more than one course without the permission of all the instructors. 
• Downloads and uses text or materials from the Internet, from a hard drive of any computer (on campus or elsewhere), or from a USB, CD-ROM or other electronic storage device without documentation and the original author’s consent. 
• Performs and/or accesses any work for another enrolled student, regardless of delivery mode.