For instructors

What the AI use statement and writing record a student hands in do and do not show.

It does not write the assignment

The editor's AI features stop at rewriting a selected sentence, suggesting one paragraph that continues the text before the cursor, and proposing an outline or titles. There is no feature that writes a whole assignment, and AI results only enter the text when the student accepts them. References are built only from metadata registered with Crossref or entered by the student, so citations invented by a model do not reach the list.

What the statement contains

  • AI results accepted inside the editor: date, feature, model, accepted length and the text exchanged
  • AI used elsewhere: tool, purpose, scope and chat share link as written by the student
  • How the text entered the document: typed, accepted from AI, pasted or imported
  • The student's own account of their contribution

What it does not show

The shares count how characters entered the editor; they are not a judgment of authorship. Text copied by retyping it from elsewhere counts as typed. If a student turns logging off, that period is not recorded and the statement says so. There is no AI detection score: detectors misfire often and push students toward gaming them.

Using it in a course

Say in the assignment brief how far AI may be used and ask for the statement with the submission. Students can use the free AI use statement form, or attach the statement as an appendix to the submission PDF if they wrote in the editor. A form set by your school comes first.

AI use statement form

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