Prepare a student's response to an academic misconduct allegation involving AI
Key facts
- Human involvement
- RedLawyer-led
- How AI is used
- The tool writes nothing in the student's response. It may index the student's drafts, file version histories, notes and the provider's academic integrity policy and AI-use rules for the assessment, with dates and references.
- What the lawyer must review
- The lawyer takes the student's account of how they produced the work in the student's own words, tests the provider's evidence, identifies the rule said to be breached and the procedure owed, and settles the response with the student.
- Written for / version
- US
Open a jurisdiction version of this task to see which instruments apply: US
Who does what
| Role | What they do |
|---|---|
| Assistance | Supporting preparation only. The tool writes nothing in the student's response. It may index the student's drafts, file version histories, notes and the provider's academic integrity policy and AI-use rules for the assessment, with dates and references. The tool writes nothing into the document. Substantive advice, judgement and any restricted content remain with the responsible human. |
| Lawyer | Perform the substantive analysis and decisions. Independently check any permitted supporting work and approve the exact output for its intended use. |
Checklist
- Identify the exact AI-use rule that applied to the assessment and when the student was told of it.
- Test each item of the provider's evidence, including any detection-tool output, rather than accepting it as proof.
- Confirm the response contains no AI-generated sentence.
- Note whether the matter could go to the National Student Ombudsman after the provider's process ends.
Forms and precedents for this task
| Form or precedent | Kind | AI use | Summary |
|---|---|---|---|
| Responding to an academic misconduct allegation involving AI: lawyer's checklist and response outline | Checklist | AI use Red | A lawyer's checklist for advising a student accused of unauthorised AI use or other academic misconduct: reading the allegation and policy, testing the evidence, gathering the student's own drafts and records, deadlines, and an outline for a response the student writes in their own words. |
Signed-in accounts can read the full text of each one. All precedents.
Sources
- TEQSA: Gen AI — academic integrity and assessment reform · 2026-10-18
- National Student Ombudsman: Complaints · 2026-10-18
These are suggested working checks. Confirm the required checking with the responsible lawyer before work starts; the checking approach does not establish permission to use AI.