The university’s syllabus requirements cover staff use of AI in teaching and assessment, alongside clear rules for students and protections for approved accommodations
University of Illinois Chicago faculty must disclose planned AI use in teaching, including grading support and feedback generation. Illustrative image: supplied
Faculty at the University of Illinois Chicago must disclose how they plan to use AI in their teaching, including its role in preparing course materials, supporting grading and generating feedback for students.
The university’s AI Use and Disclosure Statement places transparency obligations on instructors alongside requirements to explain when students can and cannot use AI.
Published by UIC’s Office of the Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs, the statement requires faculty to disclose “any planned use of AI tools in course design, instructional materials, assessment, grading support, feedback generation, or other teaching-related activities.”
Those disclosures should explain why AI is being used and identify implications for student learning, privacy or evaluation.
Making AI use visible in course information
The requirement covers work undertaken before teaching begins, such as designing a course, as well as activities that directly affect students’ work and how it is assessed.
Faculty planning to use AI to help prepare instructional materials or generate feedback therefore need to explain that use to students. The policy asks them to address its purpose and implications, giving students information about how AI features in their learning experience.
UIC’s wider syllabus policy requires course outlines for regularly scheduled undergraduate, graduate and professional courses covered by the policy, regardless of how they are delivered. Syllabi must be distributed on the first day of class, with appropriate notice where substantial changes are made.
Clear expectations for students
Each course syllabus must also explain acceptable and prohibited student uses of AI in course activities, assignments and assessments.
Instructors must set out any conditions or limitations, including whether students need to disclose their use of AI. The requirement establishes a framework for communicating course expectations rather than imposing one blanket rule on every assignment.
Approved student accommodations must also be respected. The statement specifies: “AI tool expectations must not conflict with approved student accommodations.”
UIC directs faculty to university teaching and learning resources for help developing their statements.
The policy concludes: “All use of AI in teaching and learning must comply with applicable institutional policies, legal requirements, and standards of academic integrity.”
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