UWA’s AI Assessment Guidelines outline how you can use AI throughout your learning experience and where suitable, in your assessments.  Your Unit Coordinator may apply an AI usage tier from the guidelines to an assessment.

For all coursework students AI tools may only be used in an assessment where it is explicitly permitted by your Unit Coordinator. Where it is permitted, you must always cite and reference your uses of it and provide clear acknowledgement of how AI was used. You cannot submit for assessment any work that is not your own. 

UWA’s Academic Integrity Policy allows for thttps://www.uwa.edu.au/students/-/media/project/uwa/uwa/students/academic-support/ai-assessment-guidelines-student_2025.pdfhe limited use of AI in research, study and assessment. The policy permits you to use AI as an educational and study tool as long as it does not replace genuine student effort. You can use it  to assist in your research, your study, and for broad editorial assistance in your writing. Importantly, AI tools must not be used as a replacement of your critical thinking and analysis skills. 

UWA’s Academic Integrity Policy, defines plagiarism as occurring when “the source of paraphrased material is not cited; quoted material is cited as if it were paraphrased; and quoted material not cited”. The policy explicitly includes as a form of plagiarism intentionally or unintentionally using AI and Generative Pretrained Transformer (GPT) language as if it were your own. 

For more information, the Using AI Tools at UWA guide has examples of proper and improper use of AI in your studies and the UWA Library AI guide provides advice on using, evaluating and referencing AI outputs.

UWA provides lots of support to help you complete your assessments. Contact UWA’s Academic Skills Centre, for help developing your writing, research, study and maths & stats practices. Contact the Library If you have any questions about sourcing information, using scholarly sources and referencing and acknowledging sources.  You can also gain support from Studiosity, UWA’s external study support provider.

To view the UWA Academic Integrity policy, visit the UWA Policy Library, search for this policy and click on the relevant hyperlink to download a copy.