Durham, United Kingdom

Durham University

Record status

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Policy profile

Coverage score85/100Coverage labelbroad public coverageReview: Machine candidateAnalysis confidence82%

Privacy and data entry

No source-backed public claim about privacy or data-entry restrictions is present in this profile.

The current public tracker record does not contain claim evidence about personal, confidential, sensitive, regulated, or student data entry into AI tools.

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Research guidance

No source-backed public claim about research AI use is present in this profile.

The current public tracker record does not contain claim evidence about research use, publication ethics, research data, grants, or human-subjects compliance.

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Security and procurement

No source-backed public claim about AI security review or procurement is present in this profile.

The current public tracker record does not contain claim evidence about security review, procurement, vendor approval, risk assessment, authentication, SSO, or enterprise licensing.

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AI tools

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Evidence-backed claims

11 reviewed evidence-backed public claim

Academic Integrity

For Common Awards summative assessments, Durham guidance says students must not use generative AI to create substantive content that they present as their own creation.

Review: Agent reviewedConfidence99%

Original evidence

Evidence 1
You must not use generative AI to create substantive content for your assessed work that you then present as if it were your own creation.

Source Status

Durham Common Awards AI academic-misconduct policy is scoped to students' use of generative AI in summative assessments on Common Awards modules.

Review: Agent reviewedConfidence98%

Original evidence

Evidence 1
It applies to students' use of generative AI in summative assessments on Common Awards modules. Its only purpose is to define which uses of generative AI count as academic misconduct in that context.

Academic Integrity

For Common Awards students, Durham guidance says students must not provide generative AI with others' material unless it is public-domain material, permitted material, or protected from training use.

Review: Agent reviewedConfidence98%

Original evidence

Evidence 1
You must not provide a generative AI with any text or other material produced by others, unless that material is in the public domain, or you have explicit permission to do so, or you have confirmation that the content will not be used to train the AI in question.

Academic Integrity

The Durham Common Awards page says its AI policy requires students to paste a completed AI declaration into summative assignments before submission.

Review: Agent reviewedConfidence97%

Original evidence

Evidence 1
The policy requires students to copy and paste a completed AI declaration into summative assignments before submitting them.

Ai Tool Treatment

Durham Global Opportunities guidance says using generative AI in Global Opportunities applications is unadvisable and may negatively affect an application.

Review: Agent reviewedConfidence97%

Original evidence

Evidence 1
It is unadvisable to use generative AI and it may negatively affect your application.

Ai Tool Treatment

Durham Common Awards guidance says some limited uses of generative AI do not count as academic misconduct if work remains the student's own, AI use is acknowledged where required, and caution is demonstrated.

Review: Agent reviewedConfidence96%

Original evidence

Evidence 1
In general, however, other limited uses of generative AI to facilitate your work do not count as academic misconduct, provided that the resulting work still reflects your own engagement with your sources, your own understanding, and your own reasoning and judgments; you clearly acknowledge any use of AI that has substantially informed the content or presentation of your work; and you demonstrate appropriate caution about the limitations of the tools you use.

Ai Tool Treatment

Durham Global Opportunities guidance says asking an AI tool to proofread in British English would be appropriate where the original text was generated by the human applicant.

Review: Agent reviewedConfidence95%

Original evidence

Evidence 1
Asking an AI tool to 'proof read in British English' would be appropriate use (just as asking a friend or relative to proof read would be) as the original 'generation' of the text was by the human applicant.

Source Status

Durham's public DCAD generative-AI resources page lists an internal Institutional Policy on Generative Artificial Intelligence for Learning, Teaching and Assessment dated June 2025.

Review: Agent reviewedConfidence94%

Original evidence

Evidence 1
Institutional Policy on Generative Artificial Intelligence for Learning, Teaching and Assessment, June 2025

Teaching

DCAD assessment guidance says marking criteria should be reviewed alongside assessment redesign in light of generative AI.

Review: Agent reviewedConfidence94%

Original evidence

Evidence 1
It is also evident that, whether learning outcomes change significantly or not, marking criteria should be reviewed alongside the assessment redesign process.

Teaching

DCAD assessment guidance says actively addressing generative AI in assessment briefs can promote open dialogue with students and help assessments reflect programme learning outcomes and disciplinary practices.

Review: Agent reviewedConfidence94%

Original evidence

Evidence 1
Actively addressing genAI, whether implicitly (by designing assessments that focus on human abilities and development) or explicitly (by including genAI in assessment briefs), helps to promote open dialogue about these tools with students and to ensure that assessments reflect programme learning outcomes and disciplinary practices.

Teaching

DCAD assessment guidance says starting an iterative programme-level discussion about learning outcomes and generative AI is highly recommended rather than ignoring already occurring shifts.

Review: Agent reviewedConfidence93%

Original evidence

Evidence 1
However, starting this discussion as an iterative process amidst uncertainty is highly recommended versus ignoring the many shifts that have already occurred.

Candidate claims

0 machine or needs-review claim

Official sources

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Change log

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