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Appropriate personal study and formative use is broadly permitted subject to local rules. In summative assessment, presenting unacknowledged AI-generated content as your own is misconduct unless the assessment brief explicitly states otherwise. Engineering and Manufacturing Engineering Triposes have additional conditions.
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Appropriate personal study and formative use is broadly permitted subject to local rules. In summative assessment, presenting unacknowledged AI-generated content as your own is misconduct unless the assessment brief explicitly states otherwise. Engineering and Manufacturing Engineering Triposes have additional conditions.
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Generative AI and Assessment | Blended Learning Service
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“A student using any unacknowledged content generated by artificial intelligence within a summative assessment as though it is their own work constitutes academic misconduct, unless explicitly stated otherwise in the assessment brief.” Plagiarism & Academic Misconduct
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A student using any unacknowledged content generated by artificial intelligence within a summative assessment as though it is their own work constitutes academic misconduct, unless explicitly stated otherwise in the assessment brief.
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Generative AI and Education | Blended Learning Service
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The University of Cambridge broadly permits the appropriate use of GenAI tools and related software, however, due to the variety of disciplines and research areas present at the institution, there is need for more nuanced guidance at local levels.
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Cambridge broadly permits appropriate GenAI use for personal study, research and formative work, with nuanced Department, Faculty or College guidance controlling the context. Students should check local rules with staff; this is not blanket permission for summative assessments.
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Students are permitted to make appropriate use of GenAI tools to support their personal study, research and formative work. Appropriate use is better defined locally by Department, Faculty, or College depending on the context and you should always check with a member of staff to be sure you know how you are able to use these tools for your education. General guidance for use of GenAI is available as well as specific guidance for assessment-related queries.
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Cambridge broadly permits appropriate GenAI use for personal study, research and formative work, with nuanced Department, Faculty or College guidance controlling the context. Students should check local rules with staff; this is not blanket permission for summative assessments.
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Use of Generative AI Policy | CUED undergraduate teaching site
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Approved by Faculty Board June 2026
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The Engineering and Manufacturing Engineering Triposes’ policy, approved by the Faculty Board in June 2026, requires declaring all GenAI used to prepare summative work unless the assessment brief states otherwise. Assignment-specific rules take precedence. Students must not generate raw submission/presentation content without an initial self-written base or automatically generate references from content; tools managing student-identified references remain allowed. Students are responsible for submitted work and are expected to explain it; marks reflect unmet learning outcomes even when no academic misconduct is established.
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This document sets out guidance for the use of Generative AI by students within the Engineering and Manufacturing Engineering Triposes. As it contains a mixture of rules and advice this document uses the word 'must' to identify rules where a failure to adhere might constitute academic misconduct and the word 'should' to identify best practice advice.
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The Engineering and Manufacturing Engineering Triposes’ policy, approved by the Faculty Board in June 2026, requires declaring all GenAI used to prepare summative work unless the assessment brief states otherwise. Assignment-specific rules take precedence. Students must not generate raw submission/presentation content without an initial self-written base or automatically generate references from content; tools managing student-identified references remain allowed. Students are responsible for submitted work and are expected to explain it; marks reflect unmet learning outcomes even when no academic misconduct is established.
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Unless otherwise stated in an assessment brief students must declare all usage of Generative AI used in the preparation of a piece of summative work.
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The Engineering and Manufacturing Engineering Triposes’ policy, approved by the Faculty Board in June 2026, requires declaring all GenAI used to prepare summative work unless the assessment brief states otherwise. Assignment-specific rules take precedence. Students must not generate raw submission/presentation content without an initial self-written base or automatically generate references from content; tools managing student-identified references remain allowed. Students are responsible for submitted work and are expected to explain it; marks reflect unmet learning outcomes even when no academic misconduct is established.
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Such per assessment guidance must be adhered to and supersedes any general rules or advice in this document.
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The Engineering and Manufacturing Engineering Triposes’ policy, approved by the Faculty Board in June 2026, requires declaring all GenAI used to prepare summative work unless the assessment brief states otherwise. Assignment-specific rules take precedence. Students must not generate raw submission/presentation content without an initial self-written base or automatically generate references from content; tools managing student-identified references remain allowed. Students are responsible for submitted work and are expected to explain it; marks reflect unmet learning outcomes even when no academic misconduct is established.
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Students must not use Gen AI to generate raw text and content for submission or for assessed presentations without working from an initial self-written base.
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The Engineering and Manufacturing Engineering Triposes’ policy, approved by the Faculty Board in June 2026, requires declaring all GenAI used to prepare summative work unless the assessment brief states otherwise. Assignment-specific rules take precedence. Students must not generate raw submission/presentation content without an initial self-written base or automatically generate references from content; tools managing student-identified references remain allowed. Students are responsible for submitted work and are expected to explain it; marks reflect unmet learning outcomes even when no academic misconduct is established.
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Students must not use Gen AI to automatically generate and format references and bibliographies.
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The Engineering and Manufacturing Engineering Triposes’ policy, approved by the Faculty Board in June 2026, requires declaring all GenAI used to prepare summative work unless the assessment brief states otherwise. Assignment-specific rules take precedence. Students must not generate raw submission/presentation content without an initial self-written base or automatically generate references from content; tools managing student-identified references remain allowed. Students are responsible for submitted work and are expected to explain it; marks reflect unmet learning outcomes even when no academic misconduct is established.
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It is permitted to use tools to track and format references that the student has themselves identified, such as EndNote, Bibtex or similar.
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The Engineering and Manufacturing Engineering Triposes’ policy, approved by the Faculty Board in June 2026, requires declaring all GenAI used to prepare summative work unless the assessment brief states otherwise. Assignment-specific rules take precedence. Students must not generate raw submission/presentation content without an initial self-written base or automatically generate references from content; tools managing student-identified references remain allowed. Students are responsible for submitted work and are expected to explain it; marks reflect unmet learning outcomes even when no academic misconduct is established.
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Students are responsible for everything they submit for assessment, irrespective of use of Gen AI. This includes every factual claim, all referencing and citations, all representation of data, all use of language and all arguments.
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The Engineering and Manufacturing Engineering Triposes’ policy, approved by the Faculty Board in June 2026, requires declaring all GenAI used to prepare summative work unless the assessment brief states otherwise. Assignment-specific rules take precedence. Students must not generate raw submission/presentation content without an initial self-written base or automatically generate references from content; tools managing student-identified references remain allowed. Students are responsible for submitted work and are expected to explain it; marks reflect unmet learning outcomes even when no academic misconduct is established.
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Students will be expected to be able to explain and account for all aspects of submitted work, if a student is unable to do so this will be taken to imply that relevant learning outcomes have not been achieved. This will be reflected in any marks awarded even if there is no evidence of academic misconduct.
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The Engineering and Manufacturing Engineering Triposes’ policy, approved by the Faculty Board in June 2026, requires declaring all GenAI used to prepare summative work unless the assessment brief states otherwise. Assignment-specific rules take precedence. Students must not generate raw submission/presentation content without an initial self-written base or automatically generate references from content; tools managing student-identified references remain allowed. Students are responsible for submitted work and are expected to explain it; marks reflect unmet learning outcomes even when no academic misconduct is established.
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Students should be aware that they could produce a piece of work with extensive permitted use of declared AI that, nonetheless, has not allowed the demonstration of key learning outcomes. Such work, even if correct, will not attract good marks.
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The Engineering and Manufacturing Engineering Triposes’ policy, approved by the Faculty Board in June 2026, requires declaring all GenAI used to prepare summative work unless the assessment brief states otherwise. Assignment-specific rules take precedence. Students must not generate raw submission/presentation content without an initial self-written base or automatically generate references from content; tools managing student-identified references remain allowed. Students are responsible for submitted work and are expected to explain it; marks reflect unmet learning outcomes even when no academic misconduct is established.
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