AI: A Powerful Ally in Your Learning Journey

AI offers exciting potential to enhance your learning experience at Prostart. Imagine having a tool that can help you brainstorm ideas for an essay, summarize complex texts, or even generate initial drafts to kickstart your thinking. AI can act as a powerful assistant, helping you to:

• Boost Productivity: Automate repetitive tasks, freeing up more time for critical thinking.
• Enhance Research: Quickly find and synthesize information from vast datasets.
• Spark Creativity: Overcome writer’s block by generating diverse perspectives or starting points.
• Personalised Learning: Provide tailored explanations or practice questions.

When used responsibly, AI can be a valuable partner in developing your skills and deepening your understanding of course material.

The Plagiarism Challenge: Ensuring Your Work is Truly Yours

However, the ease with which AI can generate text also presents significant challenges, particularly regarding plagiarism. Submitting AI-generated content as your own original work is a form of plagiarism, undermining the very purpose of assessment – to evaluate your learning and your capabilities. It’s crucial to understand that simply copying and pasting from an AI tool without proper engagement or attribution is not only dishonest but also prevents you from genuinely mastering the subject matter.

Prostart’s Clear Stance: Transparency and Authenticity

At Prostart, we embrace innovation while upholding the highest standards of academic integrity. We believe in your ability to learn, grow, and demonstrate your unique understanding. Therefore, all assignments submitted to Prostart are rigorously checked for both plagiarism and the use of artificial intelligence. Our policies are designed to ensure fairness, promote genuine learning, and equip you with the skills to use these powerful tools ethically.

Here’s what we expect from every Prostart apprentice and learner regarding AI:

1. Be Clear and Transparent: Where work has been generated with the help of AI, you must be clear and transparent about its use. Honesty is key.
2. Demonstrably Your Own Work: You must ensure that work submitted for assessment is demonstrably your own. If any sections of your work are reproduced directly from AI-generated responses, those elements must be clearly identified. Furthermore, you must understand that direct reproduction may not allow you to demonstrate that you have independently met the marking criteria. Therefore, you will need to evidence in the work that you have fully understood the AI-generated responses, or the work may not be marked. This means AI should support your learning, not replace it.
3. Clearly Reference AI Tools: For any classwork, research or formal assessment where AI tools have been used, you must include the following at the end of your work:
   • The name of the AI tool used (e.g., “ChatGPT 4.0,” “Google Gemini”).
   • The date the content was generated.
   • An explanation of how the tool was used, including the specific prompts you used to generate the content.
   • A screenshot of the questions/prompts asked and the responses received from the AI tool. This serves as vital evidence of your interaction and use.
4. Sign Declarations Responsibly: If declarations are required to confirm that any submitted work is your own and without external references, you should only sign them after all necessary AI references have been added. If an AI tool has been used, the declaration should not be signed until these references are complete.

Learning with Integrity in the AI Age

AI is a tool, and like any tool, its value lies in how it’s wielded. At Prostart, we encourage you to explore the benefits of AI in your studies, but always with a firm commitment to demonstrating your own knowledge, critical thinking, and independent effort. By adhering to these policies, you not only ensure academic integrity but also develop crucial skills in responsible AI use, which will be invaluable in your future career. Let’s embrace this new era of learning together, with transparency, understanding, and a dedication to authentic achievement.