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These Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) Guidelines for Educators have been developed by a National Academic Integrity Network (NAIN) Working Group, as a response to the swiftly evolving and developing field of GenAI and the challenges that it may pose for academic integrity to educators and their students.

They are designed to help support educators in their understanding of the potential uses of Generative AI, both in supporting learning for their students, and most critically, in providing a potential ‘short cut’ to students in the fulfilment of required tasks for assessment. The guidelines have been written to provide support and advice for educators to reflect on, and as appropriate, to share and discuss with their students to enable them to understand and appreciate what is and isn’t permitted. The overall goal is to enable an understanding of what GenAI can and can’t offer, and thereby, to ensure an ethical basis for the use of GenAI tools, helping students to build their own self- awareness and knowledge, and avoid breaches of academic integrity.

The Guidelines are structured so that Part 1 contains a list of Recommendations, classified under the four headings:

• What everyone needs to know
• What lecturers and other educatorsneed to know and do
• What programme managers and institutional leaders need to do
• What students need to know and do

Part 2 provides the detailed guidelines for each of the four headings.

Part 3 provides a list of further reading, links, and resources.

These Guidelines are not intended to replicate what is currently available to educators, but
to provide practical advice which can be applied to the design of programmes including assessments, and be incorporated into teaching practice. This area is a dynamic one which is developing at a very fast pace; this means that these Guidelines, which will be published online, may well need to be regularly reviewed and updated.

We hope however that they will provide some practical support for everyone involved in tertiary education and that they will have a positive impact in supporting high quality teaching, learning and assessment policies and practices.

Billy Kelly
Chair, National Academic Integrity Network, July 2023