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Online Learning Services will continue to evaluate new teaching and learning technologies and remains available to consult with faculty on teaching and technology. ITS will continue to provide access to effective tools where they are available. In addition to technological considerations, the Center for Teaching and Learning Excellencehas pedagogical and policy resources for instructors on strategies they might take to improve their assessments (CTLE, n.d.).

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detection and Turnitin

In early 2023, Turnitin released an AI writing detector. This tool was enabled in the Syracuse University Turnitin system without our consent and without the ability to disable it. There were no fees initially associated with the tool. Turnitin initially reported low rates of false positives, but those have since been called into question. (Chechitelli 2023; D’Agostino 2023). The detector’s false negative rate was close to 40-50% in tests where AI-generated text was reworded by a human or by a separate AI paraphrasing tool(Weber-Wulff et al. 2023).

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