Pullman, United States

Washington State University

Record status

Policy statusReviewed evidence-backed recordReview: Agent reviewedClaim coverage8 reviewedEvidence-backed claims8Reviewed8Candidate0Official sources5Source languageenPublic JSON/api/public/v1/universities/washington-state-university.json

Policy profile

Coverage score100/100Coverage labelbroad public coverageReview: Machine candidateAnalysis confidence81%

AI tools

Derived tool records1

Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat

Washington State University

Tool
Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat
About
WSU provides standard Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat to all students, faculty, and staff through the university enterprise account.
Access
Use the standard Copilot Chat through WSU's enterprise account.
Cost
Free access for WSU users.
Availability
Allowed
Review
Agent reviewed
Sources

Evidence-backed claims

8 reviewed evidence-backed public claim

Ai Tool Treatment

Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat is listed for Washington State University in an official university AI tools source. Derived availability: allowed. Derived endorsement type: officially endorsed.

Review: Agent reviewedConfidence97%

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原始证据

Evidence 1
The standard Copilot Chat service all students, faculty and staff currently receive as part of the university’s enterprise account. All WSU users continue to have free access to Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat.

本地化显示 only

The standard Copilot Chat service all students, faculty and staff currently receive as part of the university’s enterprise account. All WSU users continue to have free access to Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat.

Teaching

WSU Provost guidance expects every instructor to set clear acceptable-AI-use expectations and to state the AI course policy in every class syllabus.

Review: Agent reviewedConfidence96%

Normalized value: every_instructor_expected_to_state_ai_course_policy_in_syllabus

原始证据

Evidence 1
The Office of the Provost expects every instructor to set clear expectations and policies related to acceptable AI use in their course(s). Instructors must clearly indicate their course policy about AI use in every class syllabus, and potentially, for each and every assessment.

Academic Integrity

WSU Provost guidance says WSU does not endorse AI detection tools and will not allow any AI detector to be the sole support for an academic misconduct case.

Review: Agent reviewedConfidence95%

Normalized value: ai_detector_not_sole_support_for_academic_misconduct_case

原始证据

Evidence 1
Currently, WSU does not endorse the use of any AI detection tool for several reasons. ... We will continue our policy of not allowing the use of any AI detector as the sole source of support for a case against a student for academic misconduct in the future.

Ai Tool Treatment

WSU Provost guidance says instructors may allow or prohibit generative AI tools for their courses, with an obligation to communicate the course AI policy clearly to enrolled students.

Review: Agent reviewedConfidence94%

Normalized value: instructors_may_allow_or_prohibit_generative_ai_with_clear_communication

原始证据

Evidence 1
Therefore, it is the instructor's prerogative to allow or prohibit the use of any generative AI tool. This decision comes with the obligation to accurately and clearly communicate AI policies to students enrolled in WSU courses across all campuses.

Privacy

WSU Provost AI-related policy guidance says Executive Policy 8 prohibits putting legally protected or regulated data, including proprietary, personally identifiable, HIPAA, or FERPA data, into generative AI platform queries.

Review: Agent reviewedConfidence94%

Normalized value: protected_or_regulated_data_prohibited_in_generative_ai_queries

原始证据

Evidence 1
Executive Policy 8 prohibits the inclusion of legally protected or regulated data (e.g., proprietary, personally identifiable information, HIPAA, FERPA) in queries provided to generative AI platforms like ChatGPT.

Research

WSU Office of Research guidance says researchers should generally not input sensitive data into externally sourced generative AI tools because such tools are unlikely to meet WSU data security policy requirements.

Review: Agent reviewedConfidence94%

Normalized value: researchers_generally_should_not_input_sensitive_data_into_external_gai_tools

原始证据

Evidence 1
Third-party software, tools, or information storage systems must comply with WSU data security policies. Because GAI tools are unlikely to meet these requirements, researchers should generally not input sensitive data into externally sourced GAI tools.

Academic Integrity

WSU Provost guidance states that students are expected to provide accurate and transparent attribution of AI use in classroom assessments.

Review: Agent reviewedConfidence93%

Normalized value: students_expected_to_attribute_ai_use_in_classroom_assessments

原始证据

Evidence 1
An expectation for our students is that there is accurate and transparent attribution of AI use in their classroom assessments.

Research

WSU Office of Research guidance recommends upholding academic integrity in research by clearly attributing the use of generative AI tools in research outputs and publications.

Review: Agent reviewedConfidence92%

Normalized value: research_outputs_should_clearly_attribute_gai_tool_use

原始证据

Evidence 1
Uphold standards of academic integrity by clearly attributing the use of GAI tools in research outputs and publications.

Candidate claims

0 machine or needs-review claim

Official sources

5 source attribution

Change log

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