AI policy

    Notes for teachers, lecturers and school leaders on reading how students actually work with AI, instead of guessing from the finished text.

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    IB teachers: what to check for AI in the IA before you authenticate it

    The IB leaves IA authentication to the subject teacher. Five checks for the one draft you read, mapped to the IB's 13 AI scenarios.

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    Take-home finals when students use AI: five formats compared

    Five take-home final formats side by side, what each one lets you see when students use AI, and an AI block to paste into the instructions.

    9 min read
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    Does the IB check for AI? How teachers authenticate EE and IA work

    The four checks the IB expects before a teacher authenticates coursework, what the 2027 Extended Essay adds, and the evidence to keep when students use AI.

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    University instructors: how to change essay assignments for ChatGPT

    Staged drafts, oral checks, in-class writing, AI chat logs or a process record: five ways to run a university essay assignment, compared.

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    IB AI policy checklist: 9 questions for coordinators

    The IB requires AI-generated work to be credited in the text and bibliography. Here is a nine-point checklist for coordinators turning that requirement into a policy teachers can run.

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    Teachers: how to write AI rules for one assignment, with examples

    School-wide AI policies are too broad to teach from. Here is how to write AI rules for a single assignment, with three worked examples a teacher can copy.

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    An AI acknowledgement template for IB and international schools

    The IB requires AI-generated work to be credited in the text and bibliography. A plain acknowledgement template your students can copy, and how a teacher can check it against a record.

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