The Vellum Review
For Professors × Professors posts tagged Academic Integrity.
If a machine can complete your assignment convincingly, the question is not whether students are cheating. The question is whether the assignment was ever measuring what you thought it was measuring.
The common assumption is that FERPA applies to transcripts and grades. It applies to any educational record containing personally identifiable student information — including content that appears in lecture slides.
Most citation problems in faculty slides are not intentional. They are the product of decades of informal slide-building culture. Five patterns show up more than any others.
Five practical books for redesigning assessment, improving integrity practice, choosing edtech intentionally, and handling repair when teaching plans fail in the GenAI era.
A faculty-ready AI syllabus policy framework with allowed-use rules, disclosure language, citation verification, and assignment design patterns that reduce disputes.
A step-by-step trust playbook for first-time contributors, including listing structure, proof signals, pricing clarity, and a launch checklist.