The University of Edinburgh

The following uses of generative and agentic AI are not acceptable and constitute misconduct: if you use them you risk investigation and penalties.

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Presenting AI outputs as your own, original work.

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Using an AI translator to convert assessed work to English before submission: English is the language of teaching and assessment at Edinburgh – machine translation is treated as false authorship and is not acceptable.

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Submitting an assessment which includes elements of AI-generated text without acknowledgment.

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Using an AI agent or AI browser to complete any type of work – assessed or not – within your virtual learning environment.

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Be transparent about if/how you used AI. Never claim AI output as your own work. Always verify accuracy and appropriateness.

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Do not rely on AI detection tools to confirm authorship. They misclassify human and AI content.

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There is currently no reliable automated method to detect AI generated content or verify provenance.

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Using an AI agent or AI browser to complete any type of work – assessed or not – within your virtual learning environment.

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All work submitted for assessment should be your own original work. Some assessments may require you to sign a declaration to state this – please check with your Course Organiser on this point. It is not acceptable to present AI-generated content as your own work. If you do, this will be regarded as academic misconduct.

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Before handing in your assessed work, make sure you acknowledge the use of GenAI, where used.

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Presenting AI outputs as your own, original work.

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Using an AI translator to convert assessed work to English before submission: English is the language of teaching and assessment at Edinburgh – machine translation is treated as false authorship and is not acceptable.

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Submitting an assessment which includes elements of AI-generated text without acknowledgment.

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Submitting an assessment which includes AI-generated images, audio or video without acknowledgment.

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Submitting an assessment which includes AI-generated mathematical formulae or reasoning, or computer code, without acknowledgment.

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Citing and referencing AI-found sources without reading and verifying them.

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Submission deadlines An appeal cannot be lodged until the Board of Examiners or decision-maker has published its final decision. For course marks or degree outcomes, you will be notified of final decisions in EUCLID Student View. Please note that results on LEARN may not yet be ratified or moderated so please check EUCLID. You must submit your appeal promptly and within the timescales below. Appeals against Academic decisions Year of study Appeal timescale Undergraduate Final Year within 30 working days of the result being issued Undergraduate other years within 10 working days of the result being issued Postgraduate taught and research students – all years within 30 working days of th

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e result being issued

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Appeals against decisions of Student Discipline Officers or the Student Discipline Committee All - within 10 working days of the receipt of the decision. Appeals against decisions of Fitness to Practise Panels All - within 10 working days of the receipt of the decision.

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Late appeals will only be considered in extraordinary circumstances that explain and evidence why the appeal could not be submitted on time . The decision as to whether or not extraordinary circumstances exist for acceptance of an appeal is taken by an appeal committee. For late appeals, students are expected to include any explanation or evidence for lateness in the appeal submission. Appeals submitted over 1 year after the ratified/publication date of the original decision being challenged will not be considered under any circumstances.

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All forms of academic misconduct are regarded as an offence and are punishable under the University’s Code of Student Conduct. Suspected cases are investigated by one of the University’s network of School and College Academic Misconduct Officers ( SAMOS / CAMOS ) who are responsible for the investigation at School or College level, and for determining appropriate penalties.

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Allegations relating to the research undertaken by University students will be investigated using the Academic Misconduct Investigation Procedure.

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The University does not ban the use of AI, though its use will be restricted for much of your assessed work. Where necessary, some of your courses may also restrict its use in other ways. You must always check your course level guidance.

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The University’s Accessible and Inclusive Learning Policy allows you to make audio recordings of classes but does not allow you to share and distribute these recordings with a third party. AI-based translation apps retain and process recordings in a way that is not allowed in this policy. They can also negatively effect the group dynamic in tutorials and seminars. As a result, you must not use third-party AI-based translation apps in class.

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You will not be penalised for using GenAI, as long as you are working within the acceptable uses of GenAI outlined, and you are adhering to any other restrictions that have been specified for a particular assessment.

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Before using GenAI in any assessed work, please check whether there are any restrictions. This should be mentioned in the assessment task. If not, then ask your Course Organiser. Some assessments may explicitly ask you to work with AI tools and to analyse and critique the content it generates. Other assessments may specify, for good reason, that AI tools should not be used in particular ways.

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keeps your chat histories and document downloads private to you in ELM, and is free to all staff and students.

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Protect copyright, confidentiality and personal data. Assume anything put into third-party tools is shared externally.

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Do not use ELM with identifiable patient/clinical data or any identifiable research participant data.

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Using an AI agent within Learn or any other University learning or assessment platform which requires you to log in is not permitted . Sharing your login details with an agent or agentic browser is a breach of the University Computing Acceptable Use Policy . This will result in your access to University digital services being removed and disciplinary action being taken against you.

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Many vendors are adding AI features to existing software. Treat these as new capabilities that require governance. Do not enable them by default. For systematic or large-scale adoption (including AI in third-party apps or the introduction of AI into an existing platform) for non-research activities, follow the approval process via the ISG Ethics Board, and complete required impact assessments. For Research use of AI follow your normal College Research Ethics Board process. Consider using the AI Impact Assessment guidance to frame decisions, and complete, where appropriate: Data Protection Impact Assessment (DPIA) Equality Impact Assessment (EQIA)

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The University does not ban the use of generative AI in your research, though its use is restricted for work assessed by the University. Some programmes and disciplines may also restrict its use in other ways. Always check with your supervisors and any programme-level guidelines. If you are considering using generative AI for research in conference papers, posters and publications, you should also consult any guidelines provided by the conference organiser or publisher and make any appropriate declarations. If you are a funded student, check whether your funder stipulates any additional restrictions.

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If you choose to use generative AI for aspects of your assessed research – such as your doctoral thesis, MScR dissertation, or annual review submission – it is important to be transparent about how you have done so. You should include a brief acknowledgment in the Declaration of Own Work at the start of your thesis or other submission

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If you choose to use generative AI for aspects of your assessed research – such as your doctoral thesis, MScR dissertation, or annual review submission – it is important to be transparent about how you have done so. You should include a brief acknowledgment in the Declaration of Own Work at the start of your thesis or other submission

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All University of Edinburgh students have free access to ELM (Edinburgh access to Language Models), which offers you a secure gateway to a range of generative AI models.

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Copilot chat service within Edge - you can access this by signing into the Microsoft Edge browser with your University credentials. A green shield will appear, giving you additional protections: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/copilot/microsoft-365/enterprise-data-protection

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Copilot integration with our MS365 services is part of a larger Microsoft 'Copilot for MS365' product that we do not currently have available in our service provision and our licence agreement with Microsoft. ISG currently do not have any plans to make the full Copilot for MS365 license available at this time.

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All University of Edinburgh students have free access to ELM (Edinburgh access to Language Models), which offers you a secure gateway to a range of generative AI models.

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ELM provides access to a range of language models including a locally-hosted instance of Llama. This has an optimized architecture that can achieve faster response times and reduced power consumption.

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The university encourages you to use ELM over other platforms such as GPT, DeepSeek, Grok etc for the following reasons: In ELM your data is secure – it will not be retained by third party services to train their models or for any other purpose. It is free to use for all staff and students, providing the same access for all and saving you money.

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Current staff and students are entitled to use ELM subject to discretionary School approval.

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Edinburgh access to Language Models (ELM) Find out about ELM, the University’s central gateway to safer access of Generative Artificial Intelligence for staff and students.

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Copilot integration with our MS365 services is part of a larger Microsoft 'Copilot for MS365' product that we do not currently have available in our service provision and our licence agreement with Microsoft. ISG currently do not have any plans to make the full Copilot for MS365 license available at this time.

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