The University of Queensland

UQ has disabled the Turnitin AI writing indicator functionality for all assessments from Semester 2, 2025.

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AI detection tools, including Turnitin, are flawed and unreliable. They cannot definitively determine whether text, ideas, or structures were generated by AI.

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At UQ, the use of AI outputs without attribution, and contrary to any direction by teaching staff, is a form of plagiarism and constitutes academic misconduct.

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If you use AI in your assessment inappropriately or without suitable acknowledgment it may be considered misconduct.

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At UQ, the use of AI outputs without attribution, and contrary to any direction by teaching staff, is a form of plagiarism and constitutes academic misconduct.

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If you use AI in your assessment inappropriately or without suitable acknowledgment it may be considered misconduct.

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UQ has disabled the Turnitin AI writing indicator functionality for all assessments from Semester 2, 2025.

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Turnitin identifies text in submissions that matches text within its database.

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To appeal a decision, the student must lodge an appeal application with the Associate Director, within 20 business days of being given written notice of the decision.

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22nd October 2026

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No changes

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The Misconduct Body will allow at least 10 business days between the date that the allegation notice and document bundle are provided to the student under clause 23 and the scheduled date for the hearing.

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An oral hearing is required only when requested by the student. At an oral hearing, the student may be accompanied by a support person.

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The student is not entitled to be represented by a lawyer or other representative at the hearing, except by prior written approval of the chairperson of the Misconduct Body.

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The Misconduct Body will endeavour to make a decision within 20 business days of the allegation notice and document bundle being provided to the student under clauses 21-23 (‘Producing the Allegation Notice and Document Bundle’ provisions).

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A Misconduct Body will impose a penalty that it considers is appropriate in the circumstances and is proportionate to the misconduct that is proven.

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on the balance of probabilities whether the allegation is proven.

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The Misconduct Body is not bound to impose the proposed penalty in the allegation notice, and may impose a less or more serious penalty within the scope of its authority in the Policy.

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The decision of an Appeal Body is final and there is no further recourse to further appeal within the University.

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An appeal of the decision of a Misconduct Body under this Procedure suspends the implementation of any penalty imposed by the Misconduct Body that is the subject of the appeal.

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Notwithstanding clause 80, a Misconduct Body may make a decision that the penalty is to be implemented despite any appeal (referred to in this section as an implementation direction).

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Where the student remains dissatisfied with the outcome of an appeal process, the student may lodge a complaint with the National Student Ombudsman. The student misconduct appeal process within the University should usually be exhausted before a complaint is lodged with the Ombudsman.

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A student may apply to the chairperson of the Appeal Body to stay an implementation direction, providing any supporting material the students wants the chairperson to consider.

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The chairperson must consider urgently an application to stay an implementation direction, and will proceed in the way the chairperson decides.

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You must acknowledge where you used AI in assessment, including where you have directly quoted or paraphrased AI-generated content or used tools to summarise readings, brainstorm ideas, plan your process, or for editing or proofreading purposes.

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Your course profile will have guidance on how you should acknowledge any permitted use of AI in your assessments.

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Expectations for disclosing, acknowledging or citing AI use are context-dependent. Assessment instructions should require disclosure only where it is relevant to the task and disciplinary practice and should state clearly what students need to provide.

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Assessment tasks are classified as secure or open,  with matching automated text added to course profiles to improve consistency and clarity. Task instructions must still specify the materials and tools students may use and any disclosure requirements.

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Your course coordinators have provided guidance in your course profiles defining the appropriate use of AI in each assessment task.

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Assessment tasks are classified as secure or open,  with matching automated text added to course profiles to improve consistency and clarity. Task instructions must still specify the materials and tools students may use and any disclosure requirements.

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From Semester 2 2026, this automated text replaced the requirement to manually add standard AI-use text to course profiles.

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The assessment condition AI required has also been introduced and should be used when students are required to use AI and are assessed on their use of AI (e.g., tool selection, prompting, verification, and integration) within an assessment task.

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Secure assessment instructions should identify the materials and tools students may use when completing the task, including whether AI use is allowed.

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In open assessments, students may use resources such as notes, course materials and other tools, including AI, while completing the task.

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Prompts and responses are retained in the staff member’s Exchange mailbox (inaccessible via Outlook).

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Files uploaded as part of prompts are stored in the staff member’s OneDrive. This data will be retained in line with our M365 retention approaches. This may breach research agreements (e.g. if data can only be stored in UQRDM).

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isn't used to train AI models

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Avoid sharing sensitive or confidential information and data with public AI tools (i.e. non-enterprise tools).

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Files uploaded as part of prompts are stored in the staff member’s OneDrive. This data will be retained in line with our M365 retention approaches. This may breach research agreements (e.g. if data can only be stored in UQRDM).

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It has been assessed as suitable for UQ information classified as SENSITIVE (includes unpublished research data that doesn’t have additional sensitivities like health data).

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Assume that deidentified data can be reidentified by public AI tools.

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As UQ's enterprise system, Copilot Chat provides a higher level of data security and privacy than other AI tools.

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available to all UQ staff and students for no additional cost

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Prompts and responses are retained in the staff member’s Exchange mailbox (inaccessible via Outlook).

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Files uploaded as part of prompts are stored in the staff member’s OneDrive. This data will be retained in line with our M365 retention approaches. This may breach research agreements (e.g. if data can only be stored in UQRDM).

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As UQ's enterprise system, Copilot Chat provides a higher level of data security and privacy than other AI tools.

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available to all UQ staff and students for no additional cost

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For Microsoft 365 Copilot: UQ staff may have access through UQ organisational units. Students may have access through personal accounts but it is not available via UQ.

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UQ organisational units can purchase and manage Microsoft 365 Copilot licences for their staff. These add-on licences have a cost per staff member.

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able to access information in manually uploaded files

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available to all UQ staff and students for no additional cost

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For Microsoft 365 Copilot: UQ staff may have access through UQ organisational units. Students may have access through personal accounts but it is not available via UQ.

Evidensfinder: Paid Microsoft 365 Copilot access context; extracted text characters 4964–5137

UQ organisational units can purchase and manage Microsoft 365 Copilot licences for their staff. These add-on licences have a cost per staff member.

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