{ "name": "University AI detection policy tracker", "description": "Documented university positions on AI-writing detection (mostly Turnitin's AI writing indicator), one row per university or university unit, each with a verbatim quote and a link to its source. Status values: disabled (the detector was on, or on by default, and the institution switched it off; NTU's switch-off is scheduled for 2026-12-31); not-enabled (never switched on, opted out before launch, or never licensed); restricted (a detector may be available, but policy limits how results are used, for example never as the sole evidence); discouraged (no detector provided or recommended, and staff advised not to use one); enabled-with-caveats (on, with official guidance that scores are indicative only); re-enabled (switched back on after being turned off). Dates are YYYY-MM-DD or YYYY-MM, or 'unknown'; each status is as of its source's date. The notes column records how each quote was verified (a direct fetch with direct fetch or curl, the a reader proxy text proxy, PDF text extraction with pdftotext, or an Internet Archive capture; 'lead URL' and 'lead list' refer to candidate sources gathered before verification) and any caveats. Absence of an institution is not evidence of its position, and the rows are not a random sample.", "license": "CC-BY-4.0", "attribution": "SupWriter (supwriter.com)", "last_verified": "2026-09-26", "source": "https://supwriter.com/blog/universities-dropping-ai-detection", "rows": [ { "institution": "American University", "country": "US", "status": "disabled", "detector": "Turnitin AI writing indicator", "effective_date": "unknown", "announced_date": "2023-12-06", "summary": "American University disabled Turnitin's AI detection scores and will not open academic-integrity cases on the basis of an AI-detector score, according to its assistant dean for academic integrity.", "quote": "the University has disabled artificial intelligence detection scores on TurnItIn and won't use any other originality score from an AI detection program as the basis for an academic integrity investigation.", "source_url": "https://www.theeagleonline.com/article/2023/12/part-i-ai-artificial-intelligence-or-academic-integrity", "source_type": "news (quotes official)", "verified_on": "2026-09-26", "notes": "effective date: 2023 (month not stated). The Eagle (AU student newspaper), 'Part I: AI: Artificial intelligence or academic integrity?', updated Dec 6, 2023, citing Alison Thomas, assistant dean for academic integrity, Office of Academic Integrity ('the growing body of evidence ... has deterred the University from opening cases based on an AI detection score'). No AU policy page found." }, { "institution": "Arizona State University (The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences)", "country": "US", "status": "discouraged", "detector": "AI detectors (general)", "effective_date": "unknown", "announced_date": "unknown", "summary": "ASU's College of Liberal Arts and Sciences guidance says the administration recommends no AI-detection tools and that detector results are only a starting point for a conversation, not evidence for a formal case.", "quote": "ASU administration has not recommended any specific tools or apps to detect the use of AI in coursework.", "source_url": "https://instruction.thecollege.asu.edu/AIguidelines", "source_type": "official page", "verified_on": "2026-09-26", "notes": "College-level page (Instruction Junction at The College), undated; also: 'Suspected use of Generative AI in coursework is not sufficient evidence to begin a formal Academic Integrity investigation.' Earlier URL /academicintegrityAIChatGPT redirects here." }, { "institution": "Baylor University", "country": "US", "status": "disabled", "detector": "Turnitin AI writing indicator", "effective_date": "2023-12-31", "announced_date": "2023-12-11", "summary": "Baylor let Turnitin's AI detection feature expire at the end of December 2023 after consulting the Faculty Senate, its technology committee and the Honor Council, citing accuracy uncertainty.", "quote": "the University has decided to allow the AI detection feature within Turnitin.com to expire at the end of December 2023.", "source_url": "https://honorcode.web.baylor.edu/academic-integrity-office/faculty-resources/suggestions-dealing-artificial-intelligence-ai-produced", "source_type": "official page", "verified_on": "2026-09-26", "notes": "Academic Integrity Office page (published 2023-01-05; 'Revised: December 11, 2023'); reason: 'Too much uncertainty exists, much of it related to accuracy, for the University to retain the feature at this time.'" }, { "institution": "Boston University", "country": "US", "status": "disabled", "detector": "Turnitin AI writing indicator", "effective_date": "2023-07-03", "announced_date": "2023-07-03", "summary": "BU disabled the Turnitin AI score panel on 3 July 2023 over false positives and lack of evidence for the tool's efficacy.", "quote": "Turnitin AI score panel was disabled by BU on July 3rd, 2023 based on a range of concerns, including false positives and lack of supporting evidence for its efficacy.", "source_url": "https://www.bu.edu/tech/services/teaching/assessment/grading-support-tools/turnitin/turnitin-frequently-asked-questions/", "source_type": "official page", "verified_on": "2026-09-26", "notes": "BU TechWeb Turnitin FAQ, instructor section 'Where is the Turnitin AI Assistant?'." }, { "institution": "Colorado State University", "country": "US", "status": "not-enabled", "detector": "Turnitin AI writing indicator", "effective_date": "2023-04", "announced_date": "2023-04-26", "summary": "CSU paused the rollout of Turnitin's AI writing detection in April 2023 by joining Turnitin's suppression list, citing lack of transparency, inability to switch the score off, and timing.", "quote": "CSU joined other Unizin institutions in asking to join Turnitin's \"suppression list.\"", "source_url": "https://tilt.colostate.edu/why-you-cant-find-turnitins-ai-writing-detection-tool/", "source_type": "official page", "verified_on": "2026-09-26", "notes": "Post by Joseph Brown, Director of the Academic Integrity Program, The Institute for Learning and Teaching (TILT), dated April 26, 2023. WSU's Feb 2026 memo still lists CSU among institutions that do not use the tool." }, { "institution": "Cornell University", "country": "US", "status": "discouraged", "detector": "AI detectors (general)", "effective_date": "unknown", "announced_date": "unknown", "summary": "Cornell's Center for Teaching Innovation does not recommend using automatic AI-detection algorithms for academic-integrity cases because of their unreliability and inability to provide definitive evidence.", "quote": "We currently do not recommend using current automatic detection algorithms for academic integrity violations using generative AI, given their unreliability and current inability to provide definitive evidence of violations.", "source_url": "https://teaching.cornell.edu/generative-artificial-intelligence/ai-academic-integrity", "source_type": "official page", "verified_on": "2026-09-26", "notes": "CTI page 'AI & Academic Integrity' (undated; earliest Wayback capture 2023-09-28). Cornell's Turnitin pages describe similarity checking only and do not mention the AI indicator." }, { "institution": "DePaul University", "country": "US", "status": "re-enabled", "detector": "Turnitin AI writing indicator", "effective_date": "2024-01", "announced_date": "unknown", "summary": "DePaul turned Turnitin's AI detection off for all accounts on 28 September 2023, then turned it back on in January 2024 with guidance to use results only to start a conversation with the student.", "quote": "The decision was made to turn the tool back on in January 2024, prior to the beginning of Winter Quarter.", "source_url": "https://resources.depaul.edu/teaching-commons/teaching-guides/technology/artificial-intelligence/Pages/ai-detectors.aspx", "source_type": "official page", "verified_on": "2026-09-26", "notes": "Same page: 'As of September 28, 2023, AI detection was turned off for all DePaul Turnitin accounts.' and 'We recommend you use AI detection tools with caution.' Page undated." }, { "institution": "Georgetown University", "country": "US", "status": "disabled", "detector": "Turnitin AI writing indicator", "effective_date": "2023-10", "announced_date": "2023-10", "summary": "Georgetown turned off Turnitin's AI writing detection in October 2023 after its faculty executive committee and Honor Council raised accuracy concerns.", "quote": "As of October 2023, Georgetown has turned off Turnitin's AI writing detection feature in its similarity checks because of the main campus faculty executive committee and the Honor Council's concerns about the tool's accuracy", "source_url": "https://uis.georgetown.edu/turnitin/", "source_type": "official page", "verified_on": "2026-09-26", "notes": "University Information Services Turnitin page;" }, { "institution": "Indiana University", "country": "US", "status": "not-enabled", "detector": "Turnitin AI writing indicator", "effective_date": "unknown", "announced_date": "2026-01-12", "summary": "IU's Turnitin implementation does not include the AI detection tool, and university guidance tells instructors not to upload student work to any AI-detection tool.", "quote": "Note that Turnitin has released their own AI detection product, but at the current time, IU's implementation of Turnitin does not include this new tool.", "source_url": "https://citl.indiana.edu/teaching-resources/academic-integrity/ai-generated-text.html", "source_type": "official page", "verified_on": "2026-09-26", "notes": "Center for Innovative Teaching & Learning page 'Updated 1/12/2026'." }, { "institution": "Johns Hopkins University", "country": "US", "status": "disabled", "detector": "Turnitin AI writing indicator", "effective_date": "unknown", "announced_date": "2025-03-06", "summary": "JHU's teaching-policy guidance says the university disabled Turnitin's AI detection over false positives, while noting JHU has no official policy on AI-detection software.", "quote": "Johns Hopkins disabled Turnitin's AI detection software due to reports of false positives and ongoing fears of falsely accusing students of academic misconduct.", "source_url": "https://teaching.jhu.edu/university-teaching-policies/generative-ai/detection-tools/", "source_type": "official page", "verified_on": "2026-09-26", "notes": "Teaching @ JHU page 'Detection Tools: Limitations and Alternatives', 'Last updated 3/6/25'. Same page: 'As of this writing, Johns Hopkins University (JHU) does not have an official policy or statement about using AI detection software.' Live page is behind a bot challenge;" }, { "institution": "Michigan State University", "country": "US", "status": "not-enabled", "detector": "Turnitin AI writing indicator", "effective_date": "unknown", "announced_date": "unknown", "summary": "MSU's D2L help documentation states Turnitin's AI detection is not available at MSU and that such tools should not be the sole basis for adverse action against a student.", "quote": "Turnitin AI Detection is not currently available at MSU", "source_url": "https://help.d2l.msu.edu/msu-docs/other-tools-at-msu/using-assignments-with-turnitin/ai-detection", "source_type": "official page", "verified_on": "2026-09-26", "notes": "Page is undated; earliest Wayback capture 2023-09-23. Page also says detectors 'might not always be accurate ..." }, { "institution": "MIT Sloan School of Management", "country": "US", "status": "discouraged", "detector": "AI detectors (general)", "effective_date": "unknown", "announced_date": "unknown", "summary": "MIT Sloan's Teaching & Learning Technologies group advises instructors that AI detectors do not work and recommends alternative approaches instead of detection.", "quote": "AI detection software is far from foolproof—in fact, it has high error rates and can lead instructors to falsely accuse students of misconduct.", "source_url": "https://mitsloanedtech.mit.edu/ai/teach/ai-detectors-dont-work/", "source_type": "official page", "verified_on": "2026-09-26", "notes": "School-level (MIT Sloan) guidance titled 'AI Detectors Don't Work. Here's What to Do Instead.'; undated. Not an MIT-wide policy statement." }, { "institution": "Montclair State University", "country": "US", "status": "disabled", "detector": "Turnitin AI writing indicator", "effective_date": "2023-11-20", "announced_date": "2023-11-14", "summary": "Montclair State discontinued Turnitin's AI detection on 20 November 2023 following a Provost memorandum and a recommendation from the Office for Faculty Excellence advisory board.", "quote": "The AI detection functionality within Turnitin, originally available to Montclair Canvas users, was officially discontinued on November 20, 2023.", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20241217030126/https://www.montclair.edu/faculty-excellence/teaching-resources/clear-course-design/practical-responses-to-chat-gpt/ai-writing-detection/", "source_type": "official page", "verified_on": "2026-09-26", "notes": "Original URL (https://www.montclair.edu/faculty-excellence/teaching-resources/clear-course-design/practical-responses-to-chat-gpt/ai-writing-detection/) returned 404 on 2026-09-26; cited copy is the Internet Archive capture of 2024-12-17 (page 'Last Modified: Monday, July 8, 2024'). Page references 'the Provost's Memorandum on AI Detection Service within Turnitin / Canvas, 11/14/2023'. Current status should be re-confirmed with Montclair." }, { "institution": "New York University", "country": "US", "status": "disabled", "detector": "Turnitin AI writing indicator", "effective_date": "unknown", "announced_date": "unknown", "summary": "NYU has disabled AI writing detection in Turnitin similarity reports and its library guidance cautions that AI detection tools are unreliable.", "quote": "AI Writing Detection has been disabled in the Turnitin Similarity Reports.", "source_url": "https://guides.nyu.edu/c.php?g=1307730&p=9624166", "source_type": "official page", "verified_on": "2026-09-26", "notes": "NYU Libraries research guide 'Generative AI and Large Language Models (LLMs) – Using Generative AI' (section 'AI Detection and TurnItIn', last updated Jun 10, 2026). A Provost document 'Disabling the AI Tool in Turnitin' (PDF, image-only) exists at https://www.nyu.edu/content/dam/nyu/provost/documents/Disabling%20the%20AI%20Tool%20in%20Turnitin.pdf . Inside Higher Ed (2026-08-05) also lists NYU among institutions that disabled Turnitin's AI detection." }, { "institution": "North Carolina State University", "country": "US", "status": "re-enabled", "detector": "Turnitin AI writing indicator", "effective_date": "2025-09", "announced_date": "2025-09-02", "summary": "NC State's DELTA announced in September 2025 that Turnitin AI detection was re-enabled in its Turnitin Assignment tool, with guidance that results can include false positives and should start conversations.", "quote": "Turnitin AI Detection is re-enabled and available through the Turnitin Assignment tool. Remember that AI detection should start conversations about responsible use, as results can include false positives.", "source_url": "https://news.delta.ncsu.edu/?p=32376", "source_type": "official page", "verified_on": "2026-09-26", "notes": "DELTA News 'Turnitin Updates: AI Detection and More', September 2, 2025 (permalink https://news.delta.ncsu.edu/2025/09/02/turnitin-updates-ai-detection-and-more/). Date of the earlier disabling not stated on the page." }, { "institution": "Saint Joseph's University", "country": "US", "status": "disabled", "detector": "Turnitin AI writing indicator", "effective_date": "2023-09", "announced_date": "2023-10-04", "summary": "Saint Joseph's disabled Turnitin's AI detection at the start of fall 2023 after finding many false positives, according to its manager of academic systems.", "quote": "It was causing more problems than it was solving because there is no real way to say, 'yes, this was written by artificial intelligence.'", "source_url": "https://sjuhawknews.com/29829/news/university-removes-ai-detection-feature-from-turnitin/", "source_type": "news (quotes official)", "verified_on": "2026-09-26", "notes": "The Hawk (SJU student newspaper), 'University removes AI detection feature from Turnitin', October 4, 2023, by Juliet Menz, quoting Andy Starr, Manager of Academic Systems ('We found that there's a lot of false positives ... somewhere between 50 and 75% accurate'). No SJU policy page found." }, { "institution": "San Francisco State University", "country": "US", "status": "disabled", "detector": "Turnitin AI writing indicator", "effective_date": "2024-06-01", "announced_date": "2024-05-01", "summary": "SF State's Academic Technology unit discontinued Turnitin's AI detection score from 1 June 2024 when the free trial ended and the feature became a paid add-on.", "quote": "After June 1, 2024, Turnitin assignments, both already existing and newly created, will no longer display the AI detection score within the originality report.", "source_url": "https://atcentral.sfsu.edu/post/749309653838643200/discontinuation-of-turnitin-ai-detection-tool-on", "source_type": "official page", "verified_on": "2026-09-26", "notes": "AT Central post 'Discontinuation of Turnitin's AI detection tool on June 1, 2024' (May 1, 2024): 'TII notified campuses that the AI detection feature would be add-on for additional cost and that the free trial period would end June 1, 2024.' The earlier at.sfsu.edu URL no longer resolves." }, { "institution": "Southern Methodist University", "country": "US", "status": "disabled", "detector": "Turnitin AI writing indicator", "effective_date": "2023-12-31", "announced_date": "2023-12-13", "summary": "SMU let its temporary licence for Turnitin's AI detection expire on 31 December 2023, citing the tool's limited success and negative track record.", "quote": "As of December 31, 2023, SMU's temporary license will expire for this specific function", "source_url": "https://blog.smu.edu/itconnect/2023/12/13/discontinue-turnitin-ai-detection-tool/", "source_type": "official page", "verified_on": "2026-09-26", "notes": "SMU IT Connect post by Jason Warner, Associate CIO, Academic Technology Services, dated December 13, 2023;" }, { "institution": "Syracuse University", "country": "US", "status": "disabled", "detector": "Turnitin AI writing indicator", "effective_date": "unknown", "announced_date": "2025-06-24", "summary": "Syracuse enabled Turnitin's AI detector as a free preview in 2023 but ITS now does not license or recommend any AI-writing detector, and cases may not be filed with detector results as the only evidence.", "quote": "For all of the reasons given above, university ITS does not currently license, support, or recommend any tool for AI writing detection.", "source_url": "https://su-jsm.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/blackboard01/pages/154381741", "source_type": "official page", "verified_on": "2026-09-26", "notes": "ITS/Online Learning Services 'Answers' article 'Detecting AI Created Content' (section 'Where We Stand — Fall 2024'; page updated Jun 24, 2025). Also: 'Artificial Intelligence cases may not be submitted to the Center for Learning and Student Success (CLASS) with AI-detection results as the only evidence'. The old answers.syr.edu URL now redirects." }, { "institution": "University of Alabama", "country": "US", "status": "disabled", "detector": "Turnitin AI writing indicator", "effective_date": "2023-08-01", "announced_date": "2023-08-01", "summary": "The University of Alabama's Center for Instructional Technology removed Turnitin's AI writing detection from Blackboard in August 2023 after a temporary trial.", "quote": "This feature was a temporary addition to our Turnitin environment, and we are not continuing its use based on the feedback.", "source_url": "https://cit.ua.edu/known-issue-turnitin-ai-writing-detection-unavailable/", "source_type": "official page", "verified_on": "2026-09-26", "notes": "" }, { "institution": "University of Arizona", "country": "US", "status": "disabled", "detector": "Turnitin AI writing indicator", "effective_date": "2023-06-27", "announced_date": "2023-06-27", "summary": "The University of Arizona temporarily disabled Turnitin's AI detection for all courses in June 2023 after inconsistent results and pending guidance from the vendor.", "quote": "The Turnitin AI Detection feature, which became available earlier this year, has been temporarily disabled for all UArizona courses.", "source_url": "https://deanofstudents.arizona.edu/artificial-intelligence-ai", "source_type": "official page", "verified_on": "2026-09-26", "notes": "Dean of Students Office page carrying the 'June 27, 2023 Update for instructors from the University Center for Assessment, Teaching, and Technology (UCATT)'. Described as temporary ('will remain disabled until we can learn more from the vendor'); no later reversal found on the page." }, { "institution": "University of California, Berkeley", "country": "US", "status": "not-enabled", "detector": "Turnitin AI writing indicator", "effective_date": "2025-01", "announced_date": "2023-05-01", "summary": "Berkeley opted out of Turnitin's AI writing detection at launch in 2023, ran an opt-in pilot from Fall 2023 to the start of Spring 2025, and then opted out of the tool entirely.", "quote": "Based on the findings from the pilot, along with numerous publications and studies, UC Berkeley has opted out of the use of Turnitin's AI writing detection tool.", "source_url": "https://rtl.berkeley.edu/news/availability-turnitins-artificial-intelligence-detection", "source_type": "official page", "verified_on": "2026-09-26", "notes": "Research, Teaching & Learning (RTL) page; original post dated May 1, 2023 ('campus leadership has opted out of this feature')." }, { "institution": "University of California, Irvine", "country": "US", "status": "not-enabled", "detector": "Turnitin AI writing indicator", "effective_date": "unknown", "announced_date": "unknown", "summary": "UCI's Integrity in Academics Advisory Committee determined that Turnitin's AI detection feature would not be made available at UCI and endorsed no AI detection tools.", "quote": "has examined the AI detection feature of Turnitin feature and its fitness for UCI and at this time has determined that it will not be made available to UCI.", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20241010073332/https://aisc.uci.edu/resources/Statement%20on%20Turnitin%20AI%20detection.pdf", "source_type": "policy PDF", "verified_on": "2026-09-26", "notes": "effective date: 2023 (month not stated). 'Statement on Generative AI Detection' PDF from UCI's Academic Integrity (AISC) site; the live URL (https://aisc.uci.edu/resources/Statement%20on%20Turnitin%20AI%20detection.pdf) did not respond on 2026-09-26, so the Internet Archive capture of 2024-10-10 is cited. Undated; refers to Turnitin's April 2023 release." }, { "institution": "University of California, Los Angeles", "country": "US", "status": "not-enabled", "detector": "Turnitin AI writing indicator", "effective_date": "2023-04", "announced_date": "2023-04", "summary": "UCLA opted out of Turnitin's AI writing detection preview when it launched in April 2023 and, per a 2025 UCLA Humanities Technology post, has not adopted it since.", "quote": "UCLA, for instance, declined to adopt Turnitin's AI detection software, citing 'concerns and unanswered questions' about accuracy and false positives—a decision mirrored by many UC campuses and institutions nationwide.", "source_url": "https://humtech.ucla.edu/technology/the-imperfection-of-ai-detection-tools/", "source_type": "official page", "verified_on": "2026-09-26", "notes": "HumTech (UCLA Humanities Technology) post by Jordan Galczynski, October 9, 2025. The original 2023 Bruin Learn Center of Excellence notice ('we have temporarily opted out of having it enabled') is archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20250208072130/https://coe.bruinlearn.ucla.edu/news/turnitins-ai-writing-detection-preview-feature-opted-out (live URL now redirects)." }, { "institution": "University of California, San Diego (Division of Extended Studies)", "country": "US", "status": "disabled", "detector": "Turnitin AI writing indicator", "effective_date": "2025-04-07", "announced_date": "unknown", "summary": "UC San Diego Extended Studies deactivated Turnitin's AI detection on 7 April 2025 while keeping plagiarism detection, saying it wanted to shift the focus away from misconduct as the central concern of student submissions.", "quote": "UC San Diego Extended Studies is deactivating Turnitin's AI-detection on April 7th, 2025, which means that instructors will no longer have the AI-detection report when reviewing the Turnitin similarity report, though plagiarism detection will continue to be available.", "source_url": "https://extensionhelpcenter.ucsd.edu/hc/en-us/articles/34799323794957-AI-Detection-Deactivation-Instructor-Action-Required-and-Next-Steps", "source_type": "official page", "verified_on": "2026-09-26", "notes": "Unit-level (Division of Extended Studies help centre article 'AI Detection Deactivation: Instructor Action Required and Next Steps'), not a campus-wide UCSD statement; article undated." }, { "institution": "University of Colorado Boulder", "country": "US", "status": "not-enabled", "detector": "Turnitin AI writing indicator", "effective_date": "unknown", "announced_date": "unknown", "summary": "CU Boulder's OIT decided not to add Turnitin's AI detection feature to its subscription after weighing effectiveness, cost and feedback from its Turnitin user survey and Academic Technology Advisory Group.", "quote": "OIT decided not to upgrade our Turnitin subscription to include the AI Detection feature at this time.", "source_url": "https://oit.colorado.edu/node/2323", "source_type": "official page", "verified_on": "2026-09-26", "notes": "OIT Turnitin service page (undated; links to 'Survey Results 2024' and 'Survey Results 2026'): 'The Turnitin AI Writing Detector ..." }, { "institution": "University of Iowa", "country": "US", "status": "discouraged", "detector": "AI detectors (general)", "effective_date": "2024-09-30", "announced_date": "2024-09-30", "summary": "Iowa's Office of Teaching, Learning, and Technology tells instructors to refrain from using AI detectors on student work because of their inaccuracy.", "quote": "Instructors should refrain from using AI detectors on student work due to the inherent inaccuracies in these tools.", "source_url": "https://teach.its.uiowa.edu/news/2024/09/case-against-ai-detectors", "source_type": "official page", "verified_on": "2026-09-26", "notes": "'The case against AI detectors', Monday, September 30, 2024." }, { "institution": "University of Kansas", "country": "US", "status": "enabled-with-caveats", "detector": "Turnitin AI writing indicator", "effective_date": "unknown", "announced_date": "unknown", "summary": "KU's Center for Teaching Excellence tells instructors Turnitin's AI detector on Canvas provides information, not an indictment, and must be used with caution and corroborating comparison.", "quote": "AI detection is imperfect, and instructors should use the Turnitin tool with caution.", "source_url": "https://cte.ku.edu/careful-use-ai-detectors", "source_type": "official page", "verified_on": "2026-09-26", "notes": "CTE page 'Careful use of AI detectors' (undated): 'As tempting as it might be to use Turnitin's artificial intelligence detector as a shortcut, you should not." }, { "institution": "University of Kentucky", "country": "US", "status": "enabled-with-caveats", "detector": "Turnitin AI writing indicator", "effective_date": "2023-04", "announced_date": "2023-04", "summary": "Kentucky's Provost office noted Turnitin's AI score could not be switched off when it appeared in April 2023 and told instructors to treat scores with skepticism and follow normal Senate procedures.", "quote": "AI detector scores should be handled sensitively and with healthy skepticism. If instructors wish to proceed with the determination of an academic offense, the usual procedures outlined in the Senate Rules should be followed.", "source_url": "https://provost.uky.edu/news/upholding-academic-integrity-and-ensuring-fairness-ai-detection", "source_type": "official page", "verified_on": "2026-09-26", "notes": "Undated Provost news item ('Earlier this month, Turnitin ... began providing an artificial intelligence (AI) detector'; Turnitin launched 2023-04-04; earliest Wayback capture 2023-05-29). Also: 'There is not a way of opting out of seeing the AI detection score'. Status may have changed since 2023; no later UK statement found." }, { "institution": "University of Maryland, College Park", "country": "US", "status": "not-enabled", "detector": "Turnitin AI writing indicator", "effective_date": "unknown", "announced_date": "unknown", "summary": "UMD's IT knowledge base states that Turnitin AI detection is not enabled in its ELMS-Canvas Turnitin integration.", "quote": "Turnitin AI Detection is not enabled at UMD.", "source_url": "https://itsupport.umd.edu/itsupport?id=kb_article_view&sysparm_article=KB0012721", "source_type": "official page", "verified_on": "2026-09-26", "notes": "Division of IT knowledge-base article 'Turnitin Originality Checker for Instructors' (KB0012721), undated. text present in HTML)." }, { "institution": "University of Michigan", "country": "US", "status": "discouraged", "detector": "AI detectors (general)", "effective_date": "unknown", "announced_date": "unknown", "summary": "U-M's central generative-AI guidance for faculty recommends against using AI-detection technology because of its high error rate.", "quote": "U-M does not recommend the use of AI-detection technology at this time given their high error rate.", "source_url": "https://genai.umich.edu/guidance/faculty", "source_type": "official page", "verified_on": "2026-09-26", "notes": "genai.umich.edu 'U-M Guidance for Faculty/Instructors' (earliest Wayback capture 2023-08-15). Also: 'This committee finds the detecting tools unreliable and capable of false positives, so we recommend against that approach.'" }, { "institution": "University of Michigan-Dearborn", "country": "US", "status": "not-enabled", "detector": "Turnitin AI writing indicator", "effective_date": "2023-04", "announced_date": "unknown", "summary": "UM-Dearborn requested and received an opt-out from Turnitin's AI detection add-on when it launched in April 2023, citing concerns about false accusations and student trust.", "quote": "So, when the add-on launched in April, UM-Dearborn joined several universities across the U.S. and internationally in requesting an opt-out. Turnitin did not grant every opt-out request, but it did UM-Dearborn's", "source_url": "https://umdearborn.edu/news/only-winning-move-not-play", "source_type": "official page", "verified_on": "2026-09-26", "notes": "announced date: 2023 (month not stated). UM-Dearborn news feature 'The only winning move is not to play' by Kristin Palm (2023; exact date not shown), quoting digital-education director 'Casey' and referencing Associate Provost Mitchel Sollenberger." }, { "institution": "University of Missouri System", "country": "US", "status": "not-enabled", "detector": "Turnitin AI writing indicator", "effective_date": "unknown", "announced_date": "unknown", "summary": "All four University of Missouri campuses decided not to implement Turnitin's AI-detection preview, and Missouri Online's teaching guidance strongly discourages AI detectors.", "quote": "Due to concerns about some of its features, all four campuses have decided not to implement this feature.", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20250421150216/https://teaching.missouri.edu/resources/artificial-intelligence-ai/generative-ai-faculty/detecting-ai-plagiarism", "source_type": "official page", "verified_on": "2026-09-26", "notes": "effective date: 2023 (month not stated). Original URL (https://teaching.missouri.edu/resources/artificial-intelligence-ai/generative-ai-faculty/detecting-ai-plagiarism) returned 404 on 2026-09-26; cited copy is the Internet Archive capture of 2025-04-21. Same page: 'the use of AI Detectors is strongly discouraged.' Current status should be re-confirmed." }, { "institution": "University of Oregon", "country": "US", "status": "discouraged", "detector": "AI detectors (general)", "effective_date": "unknown", "announced_date": "unknown", "summary": "UO's teaching support office states it does not support AI detection tools, and Student Conduct says detector percentages are not dispositive on their own.", "quote": "UO does not currently support AI detection tools", "source_url": "https://teaching.uoregon.edu/ai-academic-integrity", "source_type": "official page", "verified_on": "2026-09-26", "notes": "Teaching Support and Innovation page 'AI & Academic Integrity' (undated) quoting Student Conduct: 'online AI detection tools like Turnitin.com or GPTZero may not be effective and can result in false positives ... we would not consider the percentages provided by these tools as dispositive on their own'." }, { "institution": "University of Pittsburgh", "country": "US", "status": "disabled", "detector": "Turnitin AI writing indicator", "effective_date": "2023-06-22", "announced_date": "2023-06-22", "summary": "Pitt's University Center for Teaching and Learning disabled Turnitin's AI detector in June 2023 and does not endorse any AI-detection tool.", "quote": "Therefore, the Teaching Center has disabled the AI-detection tool in Turnitin.", "source_url": "https://teaching.pitt.edu/resources/encouraging-academic-integrity/", "source_type": "official page", "verified_on": "2026-09-26", "notes": "Teaching Center page 'Encouraging Academic Integrity' (last reviewed Sep 15, 2026) carries the statement; the original announcement ran in the University Times on 2023-06-22 ('the Teaching Center will disable the AI detection tool in Turnitin effective immediately'): https://www.utimes.pitt.edu/news/teaching-center-doesn-t ." }, { "institution": "University of Texas at Austin", "country": "US", "status": "discouraged", "detector": "AI detectors (general)", "effective_date": "unknown", "announced_date": "unknown", "summary": "UT Austin does not endorse AI detection software, holds no central contract for it, and prohibits use of third-party detectors on student work without a university contract.", "quote": "The University does not endorse the use of AI Detection Software and does not have any central contracts or purchase orders with active AI Detection Software features.", "source_url": "https://provost.utexas.edu/the-office/academic-affairs/office-of-academic-technology/ai-detection-software-guidance/", "source_type": "official page", "verified_on": "2026-09-26", "notes": "Office of the Executive Vice President and Provost, 'AI Detection Software Guidance' (undated). Also: 'The University prohibits the use of all third-party software, including AI Detection Software ..." }, { "institution": "University of Washington", "country": "US", "status": "disabled", "detector": "Turnitin/SimCheck AI writing detection", "effective_date": "unknown", "announced_date": "unknown", "summary": "UW asked Turnitin to switch off AI writing detection in its SimCheck integration, citing lack of pre-release evaluation, no evidence for scores, false positives and bias against non-native English writers.", "quote": "Due to these concerns, UW requested that SimCheck/Turnitin turn off the AI Writing Detection tool in UW's SimCheck integration.", "source_url": "https://uwconnect.uw.edu/it?id=kb_article_view&sysparm_article=KB0034519", "source_type": "official page", "verified_on": "2026-09-26", "notes": "UW-IT knowledge-base article 'SimCheck AI Writing Detection Tool - Why the UW has Opted Out' (shown as updated '2 months ago' on 2026-09-26); the earlier itconnect.uw.edu URL redirects here. Decision dates from spring 2023 but the page itself is undated." }, { "institution": "University of Wisconsin-Whitewater", "country": "US", "status": "enabled-with-caveats", "detector": "Turnitin AI writing indicator", "effective_date": "2026-01-15", "announced_date": "2026-01-15", "summary": "UW-Whitewater's LEARN Center reminds instructors that Turnitin's AI indicator is available but scores under 20% are unreliable and detection may never be the sole evidence in a misconduct case.", "quote": "AI detection should never be the sole evidence in a misconduct case.", "source_url": "https://blogs.uww.edu/catlst/2026/01/15/ai-turnitin-and-academic-integrity-quick-reminders/", "source_type": "official page", "verified_on": "2026-09-26", "notes": "'AI, Turnitin, and Academic Integrity: Quick Reminders' (Spark blog, January 15, 2026)." }, { "institution": "Vanderbilt University", "country": "US", "status": "disabled", "detector": "Turnitin AI writing indicator", "effective_date": "2023-08-16", "announced_date": "2023-08-16", "summary": "Vanderbilt disabled Turnitin's AI detection tool campus-wide in August 2023, citing the 1% false-positive claim (about 750 papers a year at its volume) and bias against non-native English writers.", "quote": "Vanderbilt has decided to disable Turnitin's AI detection tool for the foreseeable future.", "source_url": "https://www.vanderbilt.edu/brightspace/2023/08/16/guidance-on-ai-detection-and-why-were-disabling-turnitins-ai-detector/", "source_type": "official page", "verified_on": "2026-09-26", "notes": "Brightspace (LMS) support blog post dated 2023-08-16 by Vanderbilt's Center for Teaching/Brightspace team (author Michael Coley per citations elsewhere)." }, { "institution": "Washington State University", "country": "US", "status": "disabled", "detector": "Turnitin AI writing indicator", "effective_date": "2026-02", "announced_date": "2026-02-11", "summary": "WSU cancelled its Turnitin AI-detection contract in February 2026, noting that 33% of AI-related integrity cases in 2023-2025 ended in 'not responsible' findings when a detector score was the only evidence.", "quote": "As of February 2026, WSU has cancelled its contract with Turnitin for its AI Detection software.", "source_url": "https://provost.wsu.edu/policies/artificial_intelligence/detecting-and-reporting-misconduct/", "source_type": "official page", "verified_on": "2026-09-26", "notes": "Provost policy page; the memo to instructors (Vice Provost Bill Davis, dated February 11, 2026) is at https://provost.wsu.edu/documents/2026/02/cancellation-of-turnitin-ai-detection-software_memo-to-instructors_provost-office_spring-2026.pdf/ . Memo: 'We will continue our policy of not allowing the use of any AI detector as the sole source of support for a case against a student'." }, { "institution": "West Chester University of Pennsylvania", "country": "US", "status": "enabled-with-caveats", "detector": "Turnitin AI writing indicator", "effective_date": "unknown", "announced_date": "unknown", "summary": "West Chester keeps Turnitin's AI writing detection enabled but its Teaching and Learning Center and IS&T urge faculty to use it with caution and not as the sole basis for an integrity finding.", "quote": "The AI Writing Detection tool is currently enabled at WCU. The Teaching and Learning Center (TLC) and Information Systems &Technology (IS&T) urge faculty who may choose to use this tool to do so with caution.", "source_url": "https://www.wcupa.edu/tlc/documents/teaching-resources/ai/Turnitin%20AI%20Writing%20Detection%20Tool.pdf", "source_type": "policy PDF", "verified_on": "2026-09-26", "notes": "Undated TLC guidance PDF;" }, { "institution": "Yale University", "country": "US", "status": "disabled", "detector": "Turnitin AI writing indicator", "effective_date": "unknown", "announced_date": "unknown", "summary": "Yale's Poorvu Center states that Turnitin's AI detection feature is disabled and that the Center does not support the use of AI detection tools.", "quote": "The AI detection feature of Turnitin is currently disabled.", "source_url": "https://poorvucenter.yale.edu/teaching/canvas-yale/instructional-tools/turnitin", "source_type": "official page", "verified_on": "2026-09-26", "notes": "Poorvu Center Turnitin page (earliest Wayback capture 2025-07-07). Companion page 'AI Guidance for Teachers' says 'The Poorvu Center does not currently support the use of AI detection tools.' (https://poorvucenter.yale.edu/teaching/teaching-resource-library/ai-guidance-for-teachers). Inside Higher Ed (2026-08-05) lists Yale among institutions whose policies 'ban or discourage faculty reliance on AI-detection programs as the sole evidence'." }, { "institution": "Abertay University", "country": "UK", "status": "enabled-with-caveats", "detector": "Turnitin AI writing indicator", "effective_date": "unknown", "announced_date": "unknown", "summary": "Abertay's student guidance confirms it uses Turnitin's AI Writing Indicator, which staff may consult but which must not be the sole evidential basis for a misconduct decision.", "quote": "At Abertay, we are using Turnitin’s AI Writing Indicator.", "source_url": "https://intranet.abertay.ac.uk/students/skills-hub/guides/referencing/avoiding-plagiarism/turnitin/turnitin-ai-dectection-tool/", "source_type": "official page", "verified_on": "2026-09-26", "notes": "page meta 'Modified' 2026-09-24, 'Last modified ... by Student and Academic Services'). Same page: 'Staff may consult the AI Writing Indicator but are not required to review it routinely. Its results may prompt further review; they do not prove that AI was used or that academic misconduct occurred and must not be used as the sole evidential basis for a misconduct decision.' Students cannot see the indicator; scores may be shared in misconduct cases. Could also be coded 'restricted' (sole-basis limit). The source lead (/students/study-skills/...) redirects to this skills-hub URL. Start date of use not stated." }, { "institution": "Aberystwyth University", "country": "UK", "status": "disabled", "detector": "Turnitin AI writing indicator", "effective_date": "2023-09-30", "announced_date": "2023-09-25", "summary": "Aberystwyth turned off Turnitin's AI detection tool from 30 September 2023 after an Academic Board discussion, citing a high incidence of false positives and student anxiety.", "quote": "As discussed at the Academic Board on 13th September 2023, the university has decided to turn off the Turnitin AI Detection tool as of 30th September 2023.", "source_url": "https://wordpress.aber.ac.uk/e-learning/2023/09/27/important-update-on-generative-artificial-intelligence-for-staff/", "source_type": "official page", "verified_on": "2026-09-26", "notes": "Digital Education Team blog post 'Important Update on Generative Artificial Intelligence for Staff' (27 September 2023) reproducing an all-staff email from Prof. Tim Woods, Pro Vice-Chancellor Learning, Teaching and Student Experience, sent 25 September 2023 (announced_date = email date). Next sentence: 'The decision was based on experience with the tool across the higher education sector, especially statistics that seem to demonstrate a high incidence of false positives and the anxiety that this induces for students.' Coded 'disabled' because the tool was switched off having been available; how long it had been active before 30 Sept 2023 is not stated." }, { "institution": "Bangor University", "country": "UK", "status": "discouraged", "detector": "AI detectors (general)", "effective_date": "2026-09-01", "announced_date": "unknown", "summary": "Bangor's guidance on generative AI and academic integrity, effective 1 September 2026, says staff should not use AI detection tools in assessment and marking and that such tools will not normally be used in the academic integrity procedure.", "quote": "Therefore, staff should not seek to use these as part of the assessment and marking process. In addition, Gen-AI detection and surveillance tools will not normally be used in the operation of the University’s Academic Integrity Procedure", "source_url": "https://www.bangor.ac.uk/regulations/documents/artificial-intelligence-software-assessment-en.docx", "source_type": "policy PDF", "verified_on": "2026-09-26", "notes": "Word document 'Generative Artificial Intelligence Software and Academic Integrity - Guidance Document', 'Effective from: 1st September 2026', 'Review Date: January 2027', section 'Gen-AI Detection tools' (preceding sentence: 'Gen-AI detection and surveillance tools are available, however, their accuracy and validity cannot be guaranteed ... use of such tools, particularly through uploading student work to them, may breach the UK General Data Protection Regulation.'). Text extracted from the .docx at source_url (HTTP 200) with a zip/XML parser; source is a .docx rather than a PDF (source_type set to the nearest category). 'Not normally' leaves room for exceptions. Also: 'The University will monitor the development of Gen-AI detection tools and will keep this position under review.' Turnitin not named in this clause." }, { "institution": "Bath Spa University", "country": "UK", "status": "not-enabled", "detector": "AI detectors (general), incl. Turnitin AI detector", "effective_date": "unknown", "announced_date": "unknown", "summary": "Bath Spa's staff guidance says the university will not use digital tools to detect generative AI, naming Turnitin's AI detector, because they have not proved reliable, and advises staff against third-party checkers.", "quote": "At present, Bath Spa University will not be using digital tools to detect the use of generative AI (such as Turnitin’s AI detector) as they have not proved to be suitably reliable.", "source_url": "https://www.bathspa.ac.uk/artificial-intelligence/ai-in-teaching/", "source_type": "official page", "verified_on": "2026-09-26", "notes": "Same wording on the Digital Fluency teaching-expertise guide https://www.bathspa.ac.uk/projects/teaching-expertise-guide/digital-fluency/. Page adds 'Colleagues are advised against using non-supported third party AI checking tools' and 'This stance will be reviewed on a regular basis.' No date on the page." }, { "institution": "Birkbeck, University of London", "country": "UK", "status": "enabled-with-caveats", "detector": "Turnitin AI writing indicator", "effective_date": "unknown", "announced_date": "2026-04", "summary": "Birkbeck's 2025-26 student AI guidance says academic staff use Turnitin's AI checker, then check any flag against the assessment's permitted AI use and the student's AI declaration before referring a case.", "quote": "Academic staff use the Turnitin originality (AI) checker which flags AI use in an assessment. They then check this against the permitted use outlined in the assessment brief as well as your statement in the AI Declaration.", "source_url": "https://www.bbk.ac.uk/documents/student-policy-2025-26-ai-guidance-for-students.pdf", "source_type": "policy PDF", "verified_on": "2026-09-26", "notes": "'Generative Artificial Intelligence - a quick student guide for assessment integrity' (PDF title 'AI guidance for students, 2025-26 academic year'), para 7.2. PDF metadata created 23 Apr 2026 (announced_date from metadata; no date printed near the clause). The caveat is procedural (flags checked against permitted use/declaration; 'they may then refer'), not an explicit accuracy warning." }, { "institution": "Bournemouth University", "country": "UK", "status": "not-enabled", "detector": "Turnitin AI writing indicator", "effective_date": "2023-04", "announced_date": "2023-04-13", "summary": "Bournemouth opted out of Turnitin's April 2023 AI detection launch, saying introducing it at short notice without testing, guidance or policy would not be fair or appropriate for staff or students.", "quote": "We have decided that introducing the functionality at this time would not be fair or appropriate for either staff or students.", "source_url": "https://microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk/flie/2023/04/13/turnitins-new-ai-writing-detection-capability/", "source_type": "official page", "verified_on": "2026-09-26", "notes": "Post says it 'explains the BU decision not to use the functionality at this point in time' and 'Many other UK universities have made the same decision to opt out of this functionality at the current time.' Dated 2023 statement. Secondary corroboration (not an official statement): a 2025 peer-reviewed paper by BU staff and students (Weston et al., Teaching Anthropology 14(2), pp.80-87, https://eprints.bournemouth.ac.uk/41555/) says 'BU uses Turnitin for most assignment submissions, but we do not currently use Turnitin's AI checking tool due (at least in part) to the potential for false positives'." }, { "institution": "Brunel University of London", "country": "UK", "status": "not-enabled", "detector": "Turnitin AI writing indicator", "effective_date": "unknown", "announced_date": "unknown", "summary": "Brunel's digital education guidance says it is not planning to use Turnitin's AI detection tool, citing equity (detectors are easy to fool) and unacceptable false-positive rates.", "quote": "We are not currently planning to use the Turnitin AI detection tool at Brunel.", "source_url": "https://www.brunel.ac.uk/life/study-support/computer-services/media-services/digital-education/WISEflow/SimilarityandOther", "source_type": "official page", "verified_on": "2026-09-26", "notes": "Reasons given: 'Equity - AI detectors are relatively easy to fool...' and 'False positives - Most systems admit to at least 1% of false positive results, which is far too high for unfounded allegations of cheating.' Also asks staff not to upload work to third-party detectors. No date on the page; latest dated content is a Turnitin training video of 18 March 2024." }, { "institution": "Durham University", "country": "UK", "status": "not-enabled", "detector": "Turnitin AI writing indicator", "effective_date": "unknown", "announced_date": "unknown", "summary": "Durham's digital help FAQ says the University does not have Turnitin's AI detector because it chose not to enable it, citing unverifiable closed systems, bias and easy circumvention.", "quote": "Do we have the Turnitin AI Detector? No we don’t. We chose not to enable this feature because we don’t believe it fits with the University’s approach to assessment.", "source_url": "https://helpguides.webspace.durham.ac.uk/faqs/", "source_type": "official page", "verified_on": "2026-09-26", "notes": "DCAD (Durham Centre for Academic Development) Digital Help Guides FAQ page. No date on this FAQ entry (other entries on the page reference September 2023 and 8 October 2024)." }, { "institution": "Edinburgh Napier University", "country": "UK", "status": "not-enabled", "detector": "AI detectors (general)", "effective_date": "unknown", "announced_date": "2025-08", "summary": "Edinburgh Napier's August 2025 position statement on generative AI says University leadership does not permit AI-detection tools on student submissions because they are unreliable, biased and lack student consent.", "quote": "The University Leadership does not permit the use of Gen AI detection tools on student assessment submissions, as current technologies have proven to be unreliable, prone to bias, and we do not have students’ informed consent ...", "source_url": "https://documentcentre.napier.ac.uk/-/media/files/university-governance/artificial-intelligence/edinburghnapieruniversityspositionongenerativeartificialintelligence.pdf", "source_type": "policy PDF", "verified_on": "2026-09-26", "notes": "'Edinburgh Napier University's Position on Generative Artificial Intelligence - Our Shared Commitment to Ethical and Responsible Use', dated August 2025, clause 2.2 (sentence continues 'for their use with their work.'; truncated to fit 40 words). Also clause 3.4 for academic staff: 'You are not permitted to use external detection tools on student work...'. Turnitin not named." }, { "institution": "Goldsmiths, University of London", "country": "UK", "status": "not-enabled", "detector": "Turnitin AI writing indicator", "effective_date": "unknown", "announced_date": "unknown", "summary": "Goldsmiths Library's AI guide says Turnitin introduced an AI detection tool in April 2023 but Goldsmiths has not enabled it, mainly over accuracy concerns and unfairness to students who used AI translation tools.", "quote": "Turnitin has also introduced an AI detection tool in April 2023. However, Goldsmiths and other universities have not enabled it mostly due to accuracy concerns and unfairness towards those who have used AI-powered translation tools in their submissions.", "source_url": "https://libguides.gold.ac.uk/AI/assessment", "source_type": "official page", "verified_on": "2026-09-26", "notes": "Guide footer 'Last Updated: Sep 23, 2026 9:23 AM' (whole-guide timestamp, not the date of the statement). Library guidance rather than a formal policy document." }, { "institution": "Heriot-Watt University", "country": "UK", "status": "not-enabled", "detector": "AI detectors (general)", "effective_date": "unknown", "announced_date": "unknown", "summary": "Heriot-Watt's student guidance on AI stated that the University would not use any generative AI detection tools during academic year 2023-24 while keeping detection tools under review; no later statement was found.", "quote": "HW will not be utilising any generative AI detection tools for the period of AY23-24.", "source_url": "https://lta.hw.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/HWU-Student-guidance-on-Artificial-Intelligence-in-Learning-and-Teaching.pdf", "source_type": "policy PDF", "verified_on": "2026-09-26", "notes": "'Student guidance on Artificial Intelligence in Learning and Teaching' (Learning and Teaching Academy), point 6; no date printed (PDF metadata created 12 Mar 2024, modified 23 Jul 2024). Same statement in 'HW general principles on use of technology and AI' (https://lta.hw.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/HW-general-principles-on-technology-and-AI.pdf, created 20 Sep 2023). TIME-LIMITED: the statement covers AY 2023-24 only; current (2025-26/2026-27) position not found. Turnitin not named." }, { "institution": "Imperial College London", "country": "UK", "status": "not-enabled", "detector": "AI detectors (general), incl. Turnitin AI detection", "effective_date": "unknown", "announced_date": "2026-09", "summary": "Imperial's published FOI information (September 2026) says it does not use AI detection software such as Turnitin's and has not trialled or enabled any such software, relying instead on guidance, assessment design and authenticity interviews.", "quote": "Imperial do not use AI detection software from providers such as Turnit-in. [...] The university has not trialed or enabled any such software. (September 2026)", "source_url": "https://www.imperial.ac.uk/about/university-secretary/institutional-compliance-and-risk-management/request-report-and-access/publication-scheme/frequently-requested-information/", "source_type": "official page", "verified_on": "2026-09-26", "notes": "FOI 'Frequently requested information' page, section 'AI teaching and Misconduct' > 'Use of AI Detection software', entry dated '(September 2026)'. '[...]' omits two sentences on integrity measures. An older Q&A further down the same page says Imperial has a Turnitin site licence and 'We are not currently or have we used this capability University-wide, but use whatever technical tool we deem appropriate as evidence in cases of suspected academic misconduct' - slightly less absolute than the Sept 2026 entry." }, { "institution": "King's College London", "country": "UK", "status": "not-enabled", "detector": "Turnitin AI writing indicator", "effective_date": "unknown", "announced_date": "2023-10", "summary": "KCL's university-wide generative AI guidance says King's decided not to enable Turnitin's AI detection percentage because of reliability and false-positive concerns, so AI detection is not available to staff.", "quote": "King’s took the decision not to enable the AI detection % in Turnitin due to concerns about its reliability and potential for false positives. As things stand AI detection is not an option that is available to us.", "source_url": "https://www.kcl.ac.uk/about/strategy/learning-and-teaching/ai-guidance/macro-level", "source_type": "official page", "verified_on": "2026-09-26", "notes": "Page 'Macro-level: University-wide principles and policy' (King's guidance on generative AI), 'Detection' section. Page footer: 'First published: October 2023. Last updated: April 2025'. The decision date itself is not stated; announced_date = first-published month of the guidance page." }, { "institution": "Manchester Metropolitan University", "country": "UK", "status": "not-enabled", "detector": "Turnitin AI writing indicator", "effective_date": "unknown", "announced_date": "unknown", "summary": "Manchester Met's staff guidance says that, like most UK institutions, it has opted out of enabling Turnitin's AI detector for the foreseeable future and that staff must not upload student work to online AI detectors.", "quote": "Like the overwhelming majority of UK higher education institutions, Manchester Met has opted out of enabling this software as a means of detecting generative AI for the foreseeable future.", "source_url": "https://www.mmu.ac.uk/about-us/professional-services/uta/teaching/embracing-generative-ai-responsibly", "source_type": "official page", "verified_on": "2026-09-26", "notes": "University Teaching Academy page 'Embracing generative AI responsibly', 'Detection software' section. 'This software' refers to Turnitin's AI detector (preceding sentence discusses Turnitin's April 2023 launch and its revised 4% false-positive figure of June 2023). Next sentence: 'Colleagues must not upload student work into an online AI detection service.' No date on page." }, { "institution": "Middlesex University", "country": "UK", "status": "discouraged", "detector": "AI detectors (general)", "effective_date": "2026-09", "announced_date": "2026-09", "summary": "Middlesex's new Generative AI in Learning, Teaching and Assessment policy (v1.0, September 2026) says AI detectors produce too many false positives to be a reliable basis for misconduct judgements and steers staff to assessment design and human judgement instead.", "quote": "The University’s current position is that AI detection tools continue to generate an unproportionate number of ‘false positives’, meaning that results are not sufficiently reliable as a basis for judging academic misconduct investigations.", "source_url": "https://www.mdx.ac.uk/media/middlesex-university/about-us-pdfs/academic-quality/AI-in-Learning-and-Teaching-Policy-August-2026.pdf", "source_type": "policy PDF", "verified_on": "2026-09-26", "notes": "Policy 'The use of generative AI in Learning, Teaching and Assessment', owner PVC Education and Student Experience, Version 1.0, 'Implementation date: September 2026', 'Last review date: August 2026', approved by Academic Board; section 'The use of AI detection tools in assessment', paras 24-26 (26: 'Instead, the University encourages staff to design assessment, which is less vulnerable to Gen AI, and to make human decisions...'). Para 25 raises GDPR/IP concerns. Does not say whether Middlesex licenses a detector." }, { "institution": "Newcastle University", "country": "UK", "status": "disabled", "detector": "AI detection features of university platforms (incl. Turnitin)", "effective_date": "unknown", "announced_date": "unknown", "summary": "Newcastle's Learning and Teaching guidance says it does not support automatic AI checkers and that the AI detection features of its current platforms have been disabled.", "quote": "Low detection rates and a high incidence of false positives in recent research has also confirmed our concerns, and so the AI detection features of our current platforms have been disabled.", "source_url": "https://www.ncl.ac.uk/learning-and-teaching/lec/assessment/ai-in-assessment/", "source_type": "official page", "verified_on": "2026-09-26", "notes": "no date on page). Platforms are not named individually. Corroborating: Library FAQ https://libhelp.ncl.ac.uk/faq/279377 (Last Updated: Mar 26, 2025): 'The University does not use the AI detection feature within Turnitin and will only employ an AI detection tool as part of an academic misconduct investigation if required.' The FAQ's investigation-only caveat means use is not absolutely excluded. The 2023 source lead (ncl.ac.uk/learning-and-teaching/digital-technologies/turnitin/) no longer mentions AI." }, { "institution": "Northumbria University", "country": "UK", "status": "enabled-with-caveats", "detector": "Turnitin AI writing indicator", "effective_date": "unknown", "announced_date": "2024-03", "summary": "Northumbria's March 2024 student FAQ describes the Turnitin AI writing detector in use and states that it does not decide whether misconduct occurred but gives tutors data for an informed decision.", "quote": "The AI writing detector does not decide if academic misconduct has occurred, rather it provides data for your tutors so they can make an informed decision based on Northumbria’s academic misconduct policy.", "source_url": "https://www.northumbria.ac.uk/-/media/services/it-services/documents/pdf/turnitin_ai_writing_detection_march_2024.pdf?modified=20240321145011", "source_type": "policy PDF", "verified_on": "2026-09-26", "notes": "One-page IT Services FAQ 'Turnitin AI writing detector', footer 'March 2024 - Page 1 of 1'. 2024 document; whether still current in 2026 not established." }, { "institution": "Queen's University Belfast", "country": "UK", "status": "discouraged", "detector": "AI detectors (general)", "effective_date": "unknown", "announced_date": "2025-10", "summary": "QUB's 2025-26 guidance on AI in assessment says AI detectors cannot definitively identify AI-authored text and produce unacceptably high false-positive rates, so text-based detectors are not recommended.", "quote": "Such systems often produce an unacceptably high rate of false positives. Alongside this, AI capabilities are broadly integrated within many writing tools. Considering these factors, the use of text-based AI detectors is not recommended.", "source_url": "https://blogs.qub.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/7/2024/02/QUB-Guidance-on-the-use-of-AI-in-Assessment.pdf", "source_type": "policy PDF", "verified_on": "2026-09-26", "notes": "'QUB Guidance on the use of AI in Assessment - 2025-26', section 'Use of AI detection tools'. PDF metadata created 28 Oct 2025 (announced_date from metadata; URL path says 2024/02 because the file was replaced in place). It links to a separate 'QUB guidance on the use of AI detection tools' (go.qub.ac.uk/AI-Detection -> a Flipsnack flipbook that could not be read as text). Whether QUB's Turnitin licence has the indicator on is not stated." }, { "institution": "Robert Gordon University", "country": "UK", "status": "enabled-with-caveats", "detector": "Turnitin AI writing indicator", "effective_date": "2023-10", "announced_date": "2025-10", "summary": "RGU switched on Turnitin's AI detection in October 2023 despite sector reliability concerns, framing it as one input to academic judgement alongside other evidence and as a deterrent.", "quote": "Despite these concerns, RGU took the decision to switch on Turnitin AI Detection.", "source_url": "https://www.qaa.ac.uk/docs/qaa/members/case-study-11.pdf", "source_type": "policy PDF", "verified_on": "2026-09-26", "notes": "QAA members' resource 'Case Study 11: Robert Gordon University - Implementing AI Turnitin Detection', written in RGU's first person (not an RGU-domain page; institutional self-report published by the Quality Assurance Agency). PDF metadata created 30 Oct 2025 (announced_date from metadata). Also: 'The functionality was switched on in October 2023' and AI detection 'could help to inform an academic judgement as to whether academic misconduct had occurred when taken into consideration alongside other evidence'. States 'We are confident that AI detection will continue to play an important role' under a tiered AI-in-assessment model planned for 2025/26. No RGU-domain statement found (search limited)." }, { "institution": "University College London", "country": "UK", "status": "not-enabled", "detector": "AI detectors (general)", "effective_date": "unknown", "announced_date": "2024-10-08", "summary": "UCL's student guidance on GenAI and academic integrity states that UCL does not use GenAI detectors when marking and that markers with concerns will instead ask the student for a conversation.", "quote": "UCL does not use GenAI detectors when marking. Instead, if a marker has any concerns about your work, they’ll usually request a quick chat to get more information.", "source_url": "https://www.ucl.ac.uk/teaching-learning/generative-ai-hub/genai-and-academic-integrity-assessment", "source_type": "official page", "verified_on": "2026-09-26", "notes": "Teaching & Learning Generative AI Hub page 'GenAI and academic integrity in assessment' (article:published_time 2024-10-08). Turnitin not named." }, { "institution": "University of Bath", "country": "UK", "status": "not-enabled", "detector": "Inspera Originality AI authorship detection", "effective_date": "2026-05-11", "announced_date": "2026-04-16", "summary": "Bath, which uses Inspera Originality rather than Turnitin, says its implementation (live in Moodle from 11 May 2026) does not have AI authorship detection or translation checking enabled.", "quote": "However please note that the implementation used at the University of Bath does not have translation checking or AI authorship detection enabled.", "source_url": "https://teachinghub.bath.ac.uk/guide/introduction-to-inspera-originality/", "source_type": "official page", "verified_on": "2026-09-26", "notes": "Learning and Teaching Hub guide 'Introduction to Inspera Originality' - 'Published on: 16/04/2026 - Last updated on: 11/08/2026'; Not a Turnitin institution; the old source lead (introduction-to-ouriginal) now redirects here. effective_date = go-live date of the implementation described; whether the predecessor Ouriginal set-up also lacked AI detection was not checked." }, { "institution": "University of Birmingham", "country": "UK", "status": "not-enabled", "detector": "Turnitin AI writing indicator", "effective_date": "unknown", "announced_date": "2023-07", "summary": "Birmingham's generative AI guidance says it has not enabled Turnitin's AI writing detection capability and that using any AI detection tool on student work is currently not allowable.", "quote": "The University has institutional access to the Turnitin plagiarism detection software which has released an AI writing detection capability. Like many other institutions across the higher education sector, we have not currently enabled this feature.", "source_url": "https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/libraries/education-excellence/gai", "source_type": "official page", "verified_on": "2026-09-26", "notes": "Same section: 'At present, the use of any such tools within the University is not allowable and no student work should be uploaded to generative AI detection software.' Page states the guidance was 'Released in July 2023, last updated in January 2025, and subject to next review in July 2025' (review date has passed; page still live Sept 2026)." }, { "institution": "University of Bristol", "country": "UK", "status": "enabled-with-caveats", "detector": "Turnitin AI writing indicator", "effective_date": "unknown", "announced_date": "2025-11-20", "summary": "Bristol's Digital Education Office tells staff that Turnitin AI writing reports are applied to new submissions but can produce false positives, so results must be reviewed by subject experts and used only as supporting evidence.", "quote": "For this reason, Turnitin results should always be reviewed by subject experts and used as supporting evidence, not as a replacement for academic judgement.", "source_url": "https://blackboard.blogs.bristol.ac.uk/2025/11/20/turnitin-ai-writing-reports-update/", "source_type": "official page", "verified_on": "2026-09-26", "notes": "Under the heading 'Reminder about AI report interpretation', the quoted sentence is preceded by: 'Although this technology has improved since its release, Turnitin AI writing reports can occasionally produce false positives. This means the report might incorrectly flag text as AI-generated.' Post says Turnitin's 14 October model update 'is automatically applied to all new submissions to Turnitin assignments and to Blackboard assignments with Turnitin enabled.' Earlier post (Sept 4, 2025) https://blackboard.blogs.bristol.ac.uk/2025/09/04/turnitin-ai-detection-update/ says the AI-bypasser ('humaniser') detection update is incorporated into Turnitin's AI writing report. When Bristol first enabled the indicator was not established." }, { "institution": "University of Cambridge", "country": "UK", "status": "discouraged", "detector": "AI detectors (general)", "effective_date": "unknown", "announced_date": "unknown", "summary": "Cambridge's Blended Learning Service FAQ says the University does not encourage the use of AI detection software because of its proven inaccuracy and because detectors provide no evidence for investigations.", "quote": "The University does not encourage the use of AI detection software given their proven inaccuracies and unreliability. Detection tools offer no evidence to support investigations even when identifying possible use in a submitted example.", "source_url": "https://blendedlearning.cam.ac.uk/artificial-intelligence-and-education/frequently-asked-questions-faq", "source_type": "official page", "verified_on": "2026-09-26", "notes": "Answer to 'Can the use of AI be detected?' on the Blended Learning Service AI & Education FAQ (first sentence confirmed ; No date on page. Assessment guidance https://blendedlearning.cam.ac.uk/artificial-intelligence-and-education/generative-ai-and-assessment also advises 'Not relying on AI detection software as it is not proven to be accurate or reliable and provides no evidence to support investigations into the use of GenAI.' Cambridge's Education Quality and Policy Office Turnitin/AI pages (educationalpolicy.admin.cam.ac.uk) do not state whether Turnitin's indicator is enabled; the widely reported 2023 Cambridge opt-out could not be tied to a Cambridge page." }, { "institution": "University of Dundee", "country": "UK", "status": "not-enabled", "detector": "Turnitin AI writing indicator", "effective_date": "2023-04", "announced_date": "unknown", "summary": "Dundee's staff guidance says the University, like most UK universities, opted out of Turnitin's April 2023 AI-detection launch because it could not test the tool's reliability, and tells lecturers not to use unauthorised AI detectors.", "quote": "Turnitin announced their intention to switch on AI detection for all customers in April 2023. The University, along with most UK universities, decided to opt out of this launch.", "source_url": "https://www.dundee.ac.uk/guides/ai-artificial-intelligence-teaching-and-assessment", "source_type": "official page", "verified_on": "2026-09-26", "notes": "Verified (live page, stamped 'Updated on 16 September 2026'; section heading 'AI writing detection'). Page also says 'Our earlier guidance also highlighted that lecturers should *NOT* use unauthorised AI detection tools.' The section text ('Almost six months on...') suggests it was written c. late 2023; no original announcement date shown. no statement that the tool was later enabled. Lead tracker also cites a student LibGuide (https://libguides.dundee.ac.uk/turnitin-student) - not checked." }, { "institution": "University of East Anglia", "country": "UK", "status": "not-enabled", "detector": "AI detectors (general), incl. Turnitin AI writing detection", "effective_date": "unknown", "announced_date": "2026-09-24", "summary": "In a Freedom of Information response dated 24 September 2026, UEA said it does not use any dedicated AI detection tool or feature to identify misconduct or screen submissions and has never enabled or trialled one.", "quote": "Not applicable. The university has not previously enabled or trialled any AI detection tool/feature.", "source_url": "https://www.uea.ac.uk/about/university-information/statutory-legal-policies/freedom-of-information/disclosure-log/foi_26-208-academic-misconduct-and-ai-detection-tools", "source_type": "official page", "verified_on": "2026-09-26", "notes": "UEA FOI disclosure log entry 'FOI_26-208 Academic misconduct and AI detection tools' (request 01 September 2026; 'Date of response: 24 September 2026'), answer to Q3b. Answer to Q3a (asked specifically about 'the Turnitin AI writing detection tool or other third-party detector'): 'No. The University are not using any dedicates artificial intelligence detection tool or feature to assist in identifying academic misconduct or screening of student submissions, however we do have software for detection of plagiarism within student submissions.' (typo 'dedicates' is in the original). DISCREPANCY for fact-checkers: UEA's own Generative AI Policy for Teaching and Learning (PDF created Nov 2023, https://assets.uea.ac.uk/f/185167/x/5558a0f812/generative-ai-policy-for-teaching-and-learning.pdf, clause 6.2) says 'UEA has approved the use of the TurnitIn AI detection software for taught programmes, but this must be used with caution by Plagiarism Officers only due to reported inaccuracy'. The FOI response links to that same policy. The same FOI also reports contract-cheating cases rising from 55 (2024-25) to 242 (2025-26, partial)." }, { "institution": "University of Edinburgh", "country": "UK", "status": "not-enabled", "detector": "Turnitin AI writing indicator", "effective_date": "unknown", "announced_date": "2025-03-28", "summary": "An Edinburgh Information Services project report notes Turnitin added an AI detection feature in April 2023 and that this and other AI features under University control are all currently switched off.", "quote": "An AI detection feature was added to the similarity checking service Turnitin in April 2023. [...] All these services are under the control of the University to enable or not and are all currently switched off.", "source_url": "https://information-services.ed.ac.uk/learning-technology/more-about-learning-technology/introducing-ai-in-our-learning-technology-2", "source_type": "official page", "verified_on": "2026-09-26", "notes": "Information Services 'SADIE Project Report' (AI in EdTech policy requirements), 'This article was published on Friday 28 March 2025'. '[...]' omits two sentences about AI helpers in Learn (since July 2023) and Wooclap (Nov 2023); 'all these services' covers the Turnitin AI detection feature plus those tools. Status coded not-enabled because the report describes the features as switched off and there is no evidence they were ever turned on; it is a project report, not a formal policy. The lead Bayes Centre staff-guidance URL (ed.ac.uk/bayes/... -> bayes-centre.ed.ac.uk/...) now returns 404." }, { "institution": "University of Glasgow", "country": "UK", "status": "not-enabled", "detector": "Turnitin AI writing indicator", "effective_date": "2023-04", "announced_date": "2023-04", "summary": "Glasgow's April 2023 staff update said the University, along with most Russell Group universities, took up Turnitin's opt-out from the AI detection launch and asked staff not to upload student work to other AI detectors.", "quote": "Along with most other Russell Group universities, UofG has decided to take up this opt out, at least for the moment.", "source_url": "https://www.gla.ac.uk/myglasgow/apg/aisoftwareupdate/", "source_type": "official page", "verified_on": "2026-09-26", "notes": "Academic Policy & Governance page reproducing the memo 'Generative AI software and implications for learning, teaching and assessment - April 2023 update for staff' by Professor Martin Hendry and Professor Moira Fischbacher-Smith. Same text in the PDF https://www.gla.ac.uk/media/Media_948270_smxx.pdf (PDF metadata created 20 Apr 2023). Context: Turnitin enabled institutional opt-out on 29 March 2023 ahead of the 4 April 2023 launch. The memo also says staff should not upload student work to third-party detectors and that detection is not reliable enough to base a misconduct case on. Dated 2023 statement ('at least for the moment'); no newer Glasgow statement on the indicator was found on the page." }, { "institution": "University of Greenwich", "country": "UK", "status": "not-enabled", "detector": "Turnitin AI writing indicator", "effective_date": "2023-03-31", "announced_date": "2023-03-31", "summary": "Greenwich announced it would not implement Turnitin's AI detection tool because its accuracy and false-positive rate could not be assessed, while keeping the decision under review.", "quote": "At present, we will not be implementing Turnitin’s AI detection tool as the possibility of affecting student outcomes is unknown.", "source_url": "https://www.gre.ac.uk/articles/public-relations/our-decision-to-opt-out-of-using-turnitins-ai-detection-tool", "source_type": "official page", "verified_on": "2026-09-26", "notes": "No named official; says the decision was 'made in collaboration with many other UK institutions supported by sector bodies such as UCISA and Jisc' and 'We will be keeping a close eye on the roll out... with an open mind about reviewing this decision.' effective_date set to the announcement date (it pre-dates Turnitin's 4 April 2023 launch). Statement is 3+ years old; no later Greenwich statement found reversing it (not exhaustively checked)." }, { "institution": "University of Hull", "country": "UK", "status": "not-enabled", "detector": "AI detectors (general), incl. Turnitin", "effective_date": "unknown", "announced_date": "unknown", "summary": "In a published Freedom of Information response to a July 2025 request asking which AI detection tools (e.g. Turnitin) it uses, Hull said it holds no information because it does not use AI detection tools.", "quote": "No information held as the University does not use AI detection tools.", "source_url": "https://www.hull.ac.uk/asset-library/docs/3460-ai-detection-tools.pdf", "source_type": "policy PDF", "verified_on": "2026-09-26", "notes": "FOI disclosure PDF '3460 - AI detection tools' (Request Reference 3460, 'FOI Request dated 16/07/2025'); question 1 asked the University to 'name the AI-based detection tool(s) the university uses ... e.g. TurnItIn'. Response date not printed; PDF metadata created 5 Feb 2026, modified 12 Mar 2026. FOI response, not a policy statement." }, { "institution": "University of Leeds", "country": "UK", "status": "discouraged", "detector": "AI detectors (general)", "effective_date": "unknown", "announced_date": "unknown", "summary": "Leeds's Secretariat guidance to staff on AI says staff who suspect AI-generated material should not use online AI detection tools, which are too inaccurate to be used as evidence and pose data-security risks.", "quote": "If you suspect that material presented to you, for any purpose, has been wholly or partially generated using AI, you should not use an online AI detection tool.", "source_url": "https://secretariat.leeds.ac.uk/policies-procedures-and-codes-of-practice/guidance-to-staff-on-the-use-of-artificial-intelligence/", "source_type": "official page", "verified_on": "2026-09-26", "notes": "'Guidance to staff on the use of artificial intelligence', heading 'AI Detection Tools'. Continues: 'This is because (i) currently these tools are insufficiently accurate for the University to use them as evidence, (ii) submission of the work to such tools may represent a data security breach, (iii) the document being checked becomes available as training data for other AI tools.' No date on page; Turnitin not named. The source lead generative-ai.leeds.ac.uk/staff-guidance/ai-for-student-education/ (reported wording 'must not be used under any circumstances') now 404s. Leeds' new Academic Integrity and Assistance Policy (approved 8 July 2026, for 2026/27;" }, { "institution": "University of Liverpool", "country": "UK", "status": "disabled", "detector": "Turnitin AI writing indicator", "effective_date": "2024-08-01", "announced_date": "2024-07-18", "summary": "Liverpool piloted Turnitin's AI detection tool from September 2023 and, after a review found lower-than-expected reliability and bias concerns, disabled it, removing it from Turnitin Feedback Studio from 1 August 2024.", "quote": "following consultation with relevant staff, a decision has been taken to disable it going forwards. It will be removed from the Turnitin Feedback Studio from 1 August 2024.", "source_url": "https://news.liverpool.ac.uk/2024/07/18/generative-artificial-intelligence-positive-integration-and-understanding/amp/", "source_type": "official page", "verified_on": "2026-09-26", "notes": "University news article 'Generative Artificial Intelligence: Positive Integration and Understanding' by Cath Akins, published 2024-07-18 (article:published_time), section 'Turnitin AI Detection Tool feedback'. Earlier in the paragraph: 'we took the decision in September 2023 to pilot use of the AI Detection Tool within the Turnitin platform.' Article adds 'our pilot study has also highlighted a lower-than-expected level of reliability' and cites bias against non-native English speakers." }, { "institution": "University of Manchester", "country": "UK", "status": "restricted", "detector": "AI detectors (general)", "effective_date": "2025-02-14", "announced_date": "unknown", "summary": "Manchester's University AI Guidelines say AI-detection tools are unreliable and biased and that their output cannot currently be used as evidence of academic malpractice.", "quote": "Tools to detect AI-generated content are unreliable and biased and cannot be relied on to identify academic malpractice in summative assessment. Output from such tools cannot currently be used as evidence of malpractice.", "source_url": "https://www.staffnet.manchester.ac.uk/ai-hub/ai-guidelines-and-policies/ai-guidelines-overview/guidelines/", "source_type": "official page", "verified_on": "2026-09-26", "notes": "StaffNet AI hub 'University AI Guidelines', subsection 'Detecting malpractice'. Version history on page: 'Implementation date - 14 February 2025 Last edited - 21 April 2026 Owner - University AI Strategy Group Date of next review - November 2026'. Turnitin's indicator is not named." }, { "institution": "University of Nottingham", "country": "UK", "status": "not-enabled", "detector": "Turnitin AI writing indicator", "effective_date": "2023-04", "announced_date": "2024-04-15", "summary": "Nottingham temporarily opted out of Turnitin's AI writing detection in April 2023 and, after testing found many false positives, confirmed in April 2024 that it had declined to implement the tool.", "quote": "Its results are therefore not sufficiently reliable as a basis for initiating academic misconduct investigations and the university has declined to implement the tool in this configuration.", "source_url": "https://exchange.nottingham.ac.uk/blog/artificial-intelligence-an-update-on-the-universitys-approach/", "source_type": "official page", "verified_on": "2026-09-26", "notes": "Campus News (staff news) article 'Artificial intelligence - an update on the university's approach', dated April 15th, 2024, section 'AI detection capabilities'. a Feb 2026 Wayback capture is also 403). Preceding sentences: 'Thorough testing of Turnitin AI Detection has revealed its strengths alongside its limitations. There was found to be little correlation between human detection of AI and the tool's detection, with the latter flagging an unproportionate number of false positives.' Earlier post 'Academic misconduct and AI software' (April 4th, 2023; Wayback 2025-03-27): 'the University of Nottingham has temporarily opted-out from this new capability whilst we carefully monitor the experience of the institutions that have agreed to pilot it.' The 2024 post also says the university 'will explore how it can use a broader suite of false authorship detection tools' over the next two years." }, { "institution": "University of Oxford", "country": "UK", "status": "discouraged", "detector": "AI detectors (general)", "effective_date": "unknown", "announced_date": "2026-02-16", "summary": "Oxford's AI Competency Centre states that the University does not currently endorse any digital AI detectors for use in academic decision-making, in an article that explicitly critiques Turnitin's AI detection feature.", "quote": "The University does not currently endorse any digital AI detectors for use in academic decision-making. This position is based on both technical limitations and principles of procedural fairness.", "source_url": "https://oerc.ox.ac.uk/ai-centre/ai-centre-news/the-question-of-ai-detection", "source_type": "official page", "verified_on": "2026-09-26", "notes": "Article explicitly includes 'TurnitIn's AI detection feature' among the tools it critiques. Whether Oxford's Turnitin licence has the indicator switched on is not stated." }, { "institution": "University of Portsmouth", "country": "UK", "status": "not-enabled", "detector": "AI detectors (general)", "effective_date": "unknown", "announced_date": "unknown", "summary": "Portsmouth's staff AI guidance summary states that AI detection tools are not currently allowed, alongside a bar on uploading student work to AI tools.", "quote": "Staff may use AI for personal productivity but must not use identifiable student data. AI detection tools are not currently allowed.", "source_url": "https://cadi.port.ac.uk/ai-guidance-staff", "source_type": "official page", "verified_on": "2026-09-26", "notes": "Page says the full guidance document is still to be published; implementation roadmap starts 'From October 2025' (for AI acknowledgements). No date for the detection rule. Turnitin not named. Status coded not-enabled because it is a blanket institutional bar on AI detection tools. The source lead (myport.port.ac.uk/study-skills/digital-skills/using-ai-at-university) no longer mentions detection." }, { "institution": "University of Reading", "country": "UK", "status": "not-enabled", "detector": "Turnitin AI writing indicator", "effective_date": "unknown", "announced_date": "2023-11", "summary": "Reading's academic-integrity guidance on generative AI says Turnitin's AI-detection facility is turned off (not made available to staff) because of low reliability and the risk of false accusations.", "quote": "Turnitin’s facility to detect AI use is turned off due its low reliability and the risk of false accusations of misconduct.", "source_url": "https://www.reading.ac.uk/cqsd/-/media/project/functions/cqsd/documents/ade/academic-integrity-and-genai.pdf", "source_type": "policy PDF", "verified_on": "2026-09-26", "notes": "CQSD 'Focus on: Generative Artificial Intelligence Tools - Academic Integrity and Generative AI Tools (V1.0 NOV 2023)'. the grammatical slip 'due its' is in the original. Page 1 also says: 'this aspect of Turnitin functionality has not been made available to staff at most universities, including Reading' - hence coded not-enabled rather than disabled despite the 'turned off' wording. Also tells staff not to upload work to third-party GAIT detectors. Linked from https://www.reading.ac.uk/cqsd/artificial-intelligence (per lead list; that page itself has no detection statement). Nov 2023 document; still hosted Sept 2026." }, { "institution": "University of Sheffield", "country": "UK", "status": "not-enabled", "detector": "AI detectors (general)", "effective_date": "unknown", "announced_date": "unknown", "summary": "Sheffield's student study-skills guidance states that GenAI detection tools are not used at the University because of error rates and false positives and negatives.", "quote": "GenAI detection tools are not used at the University of Sheffield. This is due to concerns over their error rates and the potential for both false positives and false negatives when scanning for potential use of GenAI.", "source_url": "https://sheffield.ac.uk/study-skills/assessment/academic-integrity/ai-and-academic-integrity", "source_type": "official page", "verified_on": "2026-09-26", "notes": "No date visible on the page (a lead list reported 'Updated 17 Mar 2026', not directly viewed). Turnitin not named." }, { "institution": "University of South Wales", "country": "UK", "status": "not-enabled", "detector": "AI detectors (general)", "effective_date": "unknown", "announced_date": "2024-03", "summary": "USW's formal statement on AI detection software says the university has chosen not to implement any AI detection tools, citing false positives, lack of transparency and bias, with a working group reviewing the position termly.", "quote": "USW has chosen not to implement any AI detection tools at present. This is due to multiple unresolved issues with AI detector tools that make them currently unsuitable for implementation.", "source_url": "https://uswvarious1.blob.core.windows.net/uswvarious-prod-uploads/documents/AI_detectors_statement.pdf", "source_type": "policy PDF", "verified_on": "2026-09-26", "notes": "2-page PDF titled 'AI detectors - a statement on the use of AI detection software in assessment at USW' (marked PUBLIC / CYHOEDDUS). No date printed; announced_date is from PDF metadata (CreationDate 19 Mar 2024, author Lucy-Ann Pickering) and references accessed up to 14 Feb 2024. Statement says 'The USW AI in Curriculum and Assessment Working Group will review the available AI detector tools on a termly basis'. Covers all AI detectors, not only Turnitin's indicator. Linked from the USW CELT AI hub (https://celt.southwales.ac.uk/policy/artificial-intelligence-ai-in-curriculum-and-assessment-hub/) per a lead list - not separately checked." }, { "institution": "University of St Andrews", "country": "UK", "status": "not-enabled", "detector": "Turnitin AI writing indicator", "effective_date": "unknown", "announced_date": "2025-01-28", "summary": "St Andrews' approved student FAQs on generative AI state that Turnitin's AI detection has not been switched on at the University because of concerns over accurate detection.", "quote": "No. Whilst Turnitin has developed AI-detection, this has not currently been switched on at the University of St Andrews due to concerns over accurate detection.", "source_url": "https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/policy/academic-policies-assessment-examination-and-award-good-academic-practice/generative-ai-faqs-students-guidance.pdf", "source_type": "policy PDF", "verified_on": "2026-09-26", "notes": "'Generative AI - FAQs for students' (Guidance; approver: Learning and Teaching Committee; Approved date and Applicability date 28/01/2025; Review/Expiry 31/01/2028), answer to Q13 'Is AI detection software used at St Andrews?'. the quote here is from the actual PDF text. The answer goes on to cite QAA advice to 'be cautious in your use of tools that claim to detect text generated by AI'." }, { "institution": "University of Strathclyde", "country": "UK", "status": "not-enabled", "detector": "Turnitin AI writing indicator (and all AI detectors)", "effective_date": "2025-08", "announced_date": "unknown", "summary": "Strathclyde's Senate-approved Turnitin guidance says the University does not endorse or permit use of the Turnitin AI Checker or any other AI detector, and bars submitting student work to them.", "quote": "Moreover, the University does not endorse or permit the use of Turnitin AI Checker (or any other tools or services claiming to detect the use of Gen-AI) and prohibits the submission of students' submitted work to these tools or services.", "source_url": "https://www.strath.ac.uk/media/ps/cs/gmap/academicaffairs/policies/Guidance_on_using_Turnitin.pdf", "source_type": "policy PDF", "verified_on": "2026-09-26", "notes": "'Assessment and Feedback - Guidance on using Turnitin' v2.0, author Assessment and Feedback Working Group, approval body Senate, effective date August 2025, review date August 2028 (v1.0 was 2014). PDF metadata created 26 Jun 2025. Coded not-enabled (explicit prohibition); a page-number '1' sits between 'use of' and 'Turnitin' in the raw PDF text." }, { "institution": "University of Sussex", "country": "UK", "status": "discouraged", "detector": "AI detectors (general)", "effective_date": "unknown", "announced_date": "unknown", "summary": "Sussex's staff guidance tells staff not to submit student work to online AI detectors, saying doing so breaches data-protection rules, the outputs are inadmissible as misconduct evidence, and no validated tool exists.", "quote": "Uploading student submissions to AI tools not licensed by the University of Sussex contravenes the University’s data protection rules and the outputs are not admissible as evidence of academic misconduct.", "source_url": "https://staff.sussex.ac.uk/education/enhancement/support/artificial-intelligence/academic-integrity", "source_type": "official page", "verified_on": "2026-09-26", "notes": "Next sentence: 'There are no independently validated tools that can reliably and accurately detect generative AI-produced material.' Page does not mention Turnitin or say whether Sussex's Turnitin licence has the indicator on. No date on page. source lead (/teaching/enhancement/...) redirects to /education/enhancement/..." }, { "institution": "University of the Arts London", "country": "UK", "status": "not-enabled", "detector": "AI detectors (general)", "effective_date": "unknown", "announced_date": "unknown", "summary": "UAL's staff guidance says it does not use AI detection software because the tools are not accurate enough to be reliable evidence and cause false positives, a decision taken by its Teaching, Learning and Employability Exchange with Digital & Technology and college Deans.", "quote": "We do not use AI detection software because: These tools currently lack the accuracy required for the UAL to consider them reliable evidence and will lead to ‘false positives’ where students are falsely accused of using AI.", "source_url": "https://www.arts.ac.uk/about-ual/learning-and-teaching/digital-learning/ai-and-education/ai-and-teaching", "source_type": "official page", "verified_on": "2026-09-26", "notes": "'AI and Teaching' page, FAQ 'Do we use AI detection software?'. Same FAQ: 'The decision not to use AI detection software was made by representatives of the Teaching, Learning and Employability Exchange in consultation with Digital & Technology and Deans of the Colleges.' No date on page." }, { "institution": "Brock University", "country": "Canada", "status": "discouraged", "detector": "AI detectors (general)", "effective_date": "2024-05", "announced_date": "2025-01-28", "summary": "Brock's Provost memo says the university has not procured or supported AI detection software, that instructors should not submit coursework to AI detectors, and (per a May 2024 policy revision) that detector reports cannot be used as evidence.", "quote": "Given that Brock University has not procured and does not internally support AI detection software, instructors should not submit student coursework to any AI detection tools or services.", "source_url": "https://brocku.ca/vp-academic/2025/01/28/artificial-intelligence-ai-detection-tools/", "source_type": "official page", "verified_on": "2026-09-26", "notes": "Office of the Provost and Vice-President, Academic memorandum 'Artificial Intelligence (AI) Detection Tools', Tuesday, January 28, 2025. Cites Faculty Handbook III A.10.4.3 (added in 'The May 2024 revisions to the university policy on undergraduate student evaluation'): 'Instructors are advised that submitting or sharing student work with any AI detection services is not institutionally condoned. This also means that reports or other information generated through AI detection tools cannot be used as evidence in assessing students’ work.' effective_date = May 2024 policy revision per the memo. Also grounds the rule in student IP ownership (FHB III C.4). Brock's T&LPC also produced an Oct 2023 AI-detection-tools document (not reviewed)." }, { "institution": "Carleton University", "country": "Canada", "status": "restricted", "detector": "AI detectors (general)", "effective_date": "unknown", "announced_date": "2026-08", "summary": "Carleton's Teaching and Learning Services briefing note says AI detection tools are unreliable and are not accepted as sole evidence of academic integrity violations at Carleton.", "quote": "AI detection tools are unreliable and are not accepted as sole evidence of academic integrity violations at Carleton. Assessment design is generally a more effective response than detection-based approaches.", "source_url": "https://carleton.ca/tls/wp-content/uploads/sites/258/2026/08/Assessment-Design-Aug2026_web.pdf", "source_type": "policy PDF", "verified_on": "2026-09-26", "notes": "Teaching and Learning Services briefing note 'Assessment Design, Academic Integrity, and Generative AI', dated August 2026 ('Did You Know?' box). TLS orientation slides (June 2026, snippet) similarly say 'Instructors should not rely on AI detection tools as the sole source for any Academic Integrity allegation.' Whether a Turnitin AI feature is licensed at Carleton was not found." }, { "institution": "Concordia University", "country": "Canada", "status": "not-enabled", "detector": "Turnitin AI writing indicator", "effective_date": "unknown", "announced_date": "unknown", "summary": "Concordia's Centre for Teaching and Learning states that Turnitin's AI Writing tab is not included in the university's licence and so is not available in the Similarity Report.", "quote": "Note that the AI Writing tab is not included in our licence and is therefore not available in the Similarity Report.", "source_url": "https://www.concordia.ca/ctl/tech-tools/teach-with-technology/turnitin.html", "source_type": "official page", "verified_on": "2026-09-26", "notes": "CTL page 'Turnitin Similarity' (no page date). The AI feature is unavailable because Concordia does not license it (Turnitin made AI detection a paid Originality add-on from 2024). Concordia's 'Guidelines for Teaching with Generative Artificial Intelligence' page (search snippet) refers to 'unreliable AI detection tools'." }, { "institution": "Dalhousie University", "country": "Canada", "status": "discouraged", "detector": "AI detectors (general)", "effective_date": "unknown", "announced_date": "unknown", "summary": "Dalhousie's library GenAI guide says provincial privacy law and university privacy policy do not allow uploading student work to any tool for AI detection, and that Dalhousie does not support any AI-detection tool.", "quote": "At this time, Nova Scotia privacy law and Dalhousie’s Protection of Personal Information Policy do not allow you to submit or upload students’ work to any tool, whether driven by AI or not, for AI detection.", "source_url": "https://dal.ca.libguides.com/genai/dal", "source_type": "official page", "verified_on": "2026-09-26", "notes": "Dalhousie University Libraries research guide 'Generative AI: A Guide for Dalhousie Students, Staff, and Faculty', tab 'GenAI @ Dal' (LibGuide; Next sentence: '(Currently, Dalhousie does not support a technology or tool that can detect AI use in students’ work).' The 'Information for teaching' tab has the same privacy statement. Stronger than advice (framed as not allowed under privacy law/policy); status 'discouraged' used because Dalhousie has no supported detector. Source is a library guide rather than a policy document; a Dal syllabus (Winter 2025) also states 'Dalhousie does NOT use the AI detector available in Turnitin'." }, { "institution": "McGill University", "country": "Canada", "status": "discouraged", "detector": "AI detectors (general)", "effective_date": "unknown", "announced_date": "unknown", "summary": "McGill's Teaching and Learning Knowledge Base tells instructors to avoid AI detection tools, citing unreliability and false positives, and states that McGill discourages their use.", "quote": "Such situations can result in a negative classroom climate and create unnecessary stress and anxiety for all involved. McGill therefore discourages the use of AI detection tools.", "source_url": "https://teachingkb.mcgill.ca/tlk/using-generative-ai-in-teaching-and-learning", "source_type": "official page", "verified_on": "2026-09-26", "notes": "Teaching and Learning Knowledge Base (Teaching and Learning Services) article 'Using generative AI in teaching and learning', section 'Avoid AI detection tools' (no page date; page contains an example dated 29 January 2026, so it was edited in or after early 2026). Same section: 'These tools (specifically regarding generated text) are unreliable and often inaccurate' and cites OpenAI's 9% false positive rate. No Turnitin-specific statement found on McGill sites via search." }, { "institution": "McMaster University", "country": "Canada", "status": "discouraged", "detector": "AI detectors (general)", "effective_date": "unknown", "announced_date": "2024-08", "summary": "McMaster's provost guidelines say automatic AI detection systems are unreliable and not recommended; Senate minutes from 2023 record that McMaster declined to use Turnitin's AI detector.", "quote": "Automatic AI detection systems are not reliable and are therefore not recommended for separating student- from AI-produced work.", "source_url": "https://provost.mcmaster.ca/generative-artificial-intelligence-2/task-force-on-generative-ai-in-teaching-and-learning/provisional-guidelines-on-the-use-of-generative-ai-in-teaching-and-learning/", "source_type": "official page", "verified_on": "2026-09-26", "notes": "Office of the Provost 'Guidelines on the Use of Generative AI in Teaching and Learning' ('These Provisional Guidelines were updated further in August 2024'; page meta modified 2025-11-14). announced_date = Aug 2024 update. Aspenlieder explained that Turn It In has developed an AI detector which most institutions declined to use, including McMaster. Once they are confident with the privacy and security of the program, there will be broad communication and training for faculty on the use of the AI detector.' No evidence of later adoption found." }, { "institution": "Memorial University of Newfoundland", "country": "Canada", "status": "discouraged", "detector": "AI detectors (general)", "effective_date": "unknown", "announced_date": "2025-06-02", "summary": "Memorial's Senate-level Statement on Generative AI says GenAI detection tools are not recommended and their use is discouraged, and that detector results cannot be the only evidence for a misconduct allegation.", "quote": "The use of GAI detection tools is not recommended. Due to potential inaccuracy in GAI detection tools, their use is discouraged.", "source_url": "https://www.mun.ca/senate/media/production/memorial/administrative/senate/media-library/reports/Statement%20on%20Generative%20AI.pdf", "source_type": "policy PDF", "verified_on": "2026-09-26", "notes": "'Statement on Generative Artificial Intelligence (GAI) Tools', transmitted to Senate by usmo dated 02 June 2025 from Dr Dennis Peters (Chair, Senate Committee on Teaching and Learning) and Dr Shannon Sullivan (Chair, Senate Committee on Undergraduate Studies) 'for approval' (announced_date = memo date; Senate approval date not shown). Continues: 'While the results of such tools could constitute evidence of academic misconduct, they cannot be the only evidence used to lay allegation(s) of academic misconduct.' CITL guidelines (published 2026-08-17) https://blog.citl.mun.ca/instructionalresources/guidelines-for-detecting-and-reporting-unauthorized-use-of-genai-in-student-work/ : 'As per Memorial’s Statement on Generative AI, the use of GenAI detection tools is not recommended.' and require informing students with an opt-out if an instructor does use one." }, { "institution": "Mount Royal University", "country": "Canada", "status": "discouraged", "detector": "Turnitin AI writing indicator", "effective_date": "unknown", "announced_date": "2026-08", "summary": "An August 2026 advisory from MRU's Generative AI in Teaching and Learning Working Group recommends instructors avoid AI detection, including Turnitin's AI writing feature, and says the group is proceeding with a recommendation to disable the Turnitin tool.", "quote": "The Generative AI in Teaching and Learning Working Group is proceeding with a recommendation to disable the AI detection tool in Turnitin, but in the interim wanted to advise faculty members of the limitations of the tool", "source_url": "https://www.mtroyal.ca/AI/ai-detection-advisory.htm", "source_type": "official page", "verified_on": "2026-09-26", "notes": "'Advisory: AI Writing Detection at Mount Royal University', Generative AI in Teaching and Learning Working Group, dated 'August, 2026' (search index date 28 Aug 2026). Also: 'We recommend that instructors avoid the use of AI detection at this time, including Turnitin's AI writing detection feature.' STATUS CAVEAT: as of the advisory the Turnitin AI feature was still technically available (disablement only recommended), so 'discouraged' is used even though MRU does license a detector; update to 'disabled' if/when MRU switches it off. Earlier MRU pages (AI teaching page, 2025-08-11; library FAQ updated 2026-04-22) say use is subject to the Matching Software Policy and scores should be used only in limited ways." }, { "institution": "Queen's University", "country": "Canada", "status": "not-enabled", "detector": "Turnitin AI writing indicator", "effective_date": "2023-04", "announced_date": "2023-07", "summary": "Queen's onQ support page says Turnitin has checked submissions for AI text since April 2023 but the reports are not available to instructors while Queen's evaluates the tool, and tells staff not to use third-party AI detectors.", "quote": "Since April 2023, Turnitin automatically checks submitted assignments for AI-generated text. Queen’s is currently evaluating the efficacy of this detection tool, and as such the reports are not currently available.", "source_url": "https://www.queensu.ca/onqsupport/turnitin", "source_type": "official page", "verified_on": "2026-09-26", "notes": "onQ Support 'Turnitin' page, marked 'Last updated: July 2023' (announced_date = that month) and still live in Sept 2026. Also: 'the AI writing detection capability is not currently available to instructors' and 'No current evidence exists that shows that any third-party AI-detection tools reliably work... Do not use such tools as a strategy to ensure the integrity of submitted work.' effective_date '2023-04' = Turnitin's launch, from which reports were withheld. CAVEAT: page is dated 2023;" }, { "institution": "Simon Fraser University", "country": "Canada", "status": "not-enabled", "detector": "Turnitin AI writing indicator", "effective_date": "unknown", "announced_date": "unknown", "summary": "SFU's Centre for Educational Excellence states that Turnitin's AI detector feature is currently not enabled at SFU because the tool's accuracy and reliability have not been independently evaluated.", "quote": "Turn-it-In's AI detector feature is currently not enabled at SFU. This is because there has not yet been an independent evaluation of the tool's accuracy and reliability.", "source_url": "https://www.sfu.ca/cee/services/learning-technology-and-media-support/turnitin-new.html", "source_type": "official page", "verified_on": "2026-09-26", "notes": "SFU Centre for Educational Excellence 'Turnitin' page (no visible date or last-modified metadata)." }, { "institution": "Toronto Metropolitan University", "country": "Canada", "status": "discouraged", "detector": "AI detectors (general)", "effective_date": "unknown", "announced_date": "unknown", "summary": "TMU's Academic Integrity Office says it does not endorse any AI detection tools because they are unreliable and may raise privacy concerns.", "quote": "No. There are a number of tools available as well as a significant amount of research dedicated to effectively watermarking AI generated text, but the tools are unreliable and potentially raise privacy concerns.", "source_url": "https://www.torontomu.ca/academicintegrity/ai/", "source_type": "official page", "verified_on": "2026-09-26", "notes": "Academic Integrity Office (AIO) 'Artificial Intelligence FAQs' page (no page date; the only date on page, December 6, 2022, refers to other content). The quote is the full answer to the FAQ 'Does the AIO endorse any AI detection tools?'. Page does not mention Turnitin's AI indicator (some TMU course outlines say AI detection software will be used, so instructor practice may vary)." }, { "institution": "University of Alberta", "country": "Canada", "status": "discouraged", "detector": "AI detectors (general)", "effective_date": "unknown", "announced_date": "unknown", "summary": "The U of A Provost's taskforce guidance says the university generally does not recommend AI detection applications, and any departmental exception must pass a privacy and security review first.", "quote": "Generally, the U of A does not recommend the use of AI detection applications.", "source_url": "https://www.ualberta.ca/en/provost/policies-and-procedures/taskforce-on-artificial-intelligence-and-the-learning-environment.html", "source_type": "official page", "verified_on": "2026-09-26", "notes": "Office of the Provost and Vice-President (Academic), 'Provost's Taskforce on Artificial Intelligence + the Learning Environment', section 'Guidance on Detecting Text Composed by Generative AI' (no page date; Next sentence: 'Any exceptions that may make sense at a Department or Faculty level will need to go through the University of Alberta Privacy and Security Review process prior to use.' The taskforce report PDF (search snippet) says it 'does not recommend purchasing or using AI detection software, citing privacy concerns'. CTL 'Setting Expectations' page (snippet): 'The University of Alberta does not recommend the use of AI detection applications.' No Turnitin-specific statement found." }, { "institution": "University of British Columbia", "country": "Canada", "status": "not-enabled", "detector": "Turnitin AI writing indicator", "effective_date": "2023-04", "announced_date": "2023-08-28", "summary": "UBC decided in April 2023 not to enable Turnitin's AI-detection feature and in August 2023 affirmed that decision, adding it would not centrally install any AI-detection tool and did not recommend other detectors.", "quote": "For a number of reasons, UBC will be maintaining its April decision not to enable the Turnitin AI-detection feature, and the university will not centrally install any AI-detection tool at this time.", "source_url": "https://ltic.ubc.ca/ubc-affirms-decision-to-not-enable-turnitin-ai-detection/", "source_type": "official page", "verified_on": "2026-09-26", "notes": "Post 'Winter 2023 Update: UBC affirms decision to not enable Turnitin's AI-detection feature', published 2023-08-28 (the source lead lthub.ubc.ca/2023/08/28/... now 404s; content moved to ltic.ubc.ca). Decision by the LT Hub Leadership group 'with the support of the Provosts at UBC Vancouver and UBC Okanagan'. Also says 'The use of other AI-detection tools is also not recommended'. Original decision: 'UBC not enabling Turnitin's AI-detection feature', published 2023-04-04, https://ltic.ubc.ca/ubc-not-enabling-turnitins-ai-detection/ ('For a number of reasons, UBC has decided not to enable the new feature in Turnitin at this time.'). No later reversal found on LTIC's news list (checked through April 2026)." }, { "institution": "University of Calgary", "country": "Canada", "status": "discouraged", "detector": "AI detectors (general)", "effective_date": "unknown", "announced_date": "unknown", "summary": "UCalgary's Student Success Centre states that the university does not encourage consulting AI detectors, calling them unreliable and prone to flagging human writing, with privacy concerns.", "quote": "The University of Calgary does not encourage consulting AI detectors or other similar tools. Currently, the consensus is that these detectors are unreliable, often incorrectly flagging human-written work as AI-generated content.", "source_url": "https://www.ucalgary.ca/student-services/student-success/writing/gen-ai-resources", "source_type": "official page", "verified_on": "2026-09-26", "notes": "Chancellor Cuthbertson Student Success Centre, 'AI Resources' page, FAQ 'Can AI detectors be used check the use of Gen AI?' (meta modified 2025-11-05; no visible date). Also: 'Both students and instructors should not rely on these tools to verify integrity.' Student-services page rather than a policy; the Taylor Institute's 'Generative AI in Assessment' page (snippet) says detection tools 'may produce false positives that wrongly implicate students'. No statement found on whether Turnitin's AI indicator is licensed at UCalgary." }, { "institution": "University of Guelph", "country": "Canada", "status": "not-enabled", "detector": "Turnitin AI writing indicator", "effective_date": "unknown", "announced_date": "2024-09-30", "summary": "A September 2024 memo from Guelph's Associate Vice-President (Academic) states the university has not authorized GenAI detection tools for detecting or prosecuting misconduct and has not turned on Turnitin's AI-writing feature despite its Turnitin subscription.", "quote": "Currently, the university has not authorized the use of GenAI detection tools for the detection and prosecution of academic misconduct.", "source_url": "https://api.liveugconthub.uoguelph.dev/sites/default/files/2024-09/20240930_memo_re-ai-detection-software.pdf", "source_type": "policy PDF", "verified_on": "2026-09-26", "notes": "Memorandum from Byron Sheldrick, Associate Vice-President (Academic), to Associate Deans Academic, Chairs and Directors, dated September 30, 2024, 'Use of GenAI detection tools and recommendations if you suspect academic misconduct related to GenAI'. Quotes Provisional Recommendations item 8c: 'UofG has an institutional subscription to Turnitin... UofG, like many other institutions, has not yet turned on this feature'. The PDF is hosted on Guelph's content-hub domain and linked from the official AVPA page https://www.uoguelph.ca/vpacademic/avpa/generative-ai-teaching-and-learning ('This memo, shared in Fall 2024, outlines the rationale for not authorizing the use of GenAI detection tools...')." }, { "institution": "University of Manitoba", "country": "Canada", "status": "discouraged", "detector": "AI detectors (general)", "effective_date": "unknown", "announced_date": "unknown", "summary": "The University of Manitoba's teaching centre says the university discourages using AI-detection software on student work because it is unreliable and raises privacy, IP and ethical concerns.", "quote": "The University of Manitoba discourages the use of AI-detection software programs on student work. Such software programs are unreliable and often incorrectly flag instances of genAI use in human-written content", "source_url": "https://umanitoba.ca/centre-advancement-teaching-learning/integrity/artificial-intelligence", "source_type": "official page", "verified_on": "2026-09-26", "notes": "Centre for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning (CATL) page 'Artificial intelligence', FAQ 'Can I or should I use an AI-detector?' (no page date). Page does not mention Turnitin's AI indicator." }, { "institution": "University of Ottawa", "country": "Canada", "status": "discouraged", "detector": "AI detectors (general)", "effective_date": "unknown", "announced_date": "2023-04-18", "summary": "uOttawa's Teaching and Learning Support Service says the University discourages the use of AI detectors on student work because their quality is unconfirmed and they cannot keep pace with AI.", "quote": "The University discourages the use of AI-detectors on student work. The quality of such detectors has not yet been confirmed, and AI technology is developing at a swift enough pace that the detectors are unlikely to keep up", "source_url": "https://saea-tlss.uottawa.ca/en/course-design/artificial-intelligence-ai", "source_type": "official page", "verified_on": "2026-09-26", "notes": "Teaching and Learning Support Service (TLSS) page 'Artificial Intelligence (AI)', FAQ 'Can I or should I use one of the new AI-detectors such as GPTZero?'; page metadata 'Published Time: 2023-04-18' (announced_date); same answer on the TLSS 'ChatGPT FAQ' (published 2023-01-31) https://saea-tlss.uottawa.ca/en/chatgpt-faq . Quote truncated mid-sentence (continues '...with the technology itself.'). CAVEAT: guidance dates from 2023 and predates or coincides with Turnitin's launch (it says Turnitin was 'working on' a detector); no newer uOttawa statement or Turnitin AI status found." }, { "institution": "University of Saskatchewan", "country": "Canada", "status": "discouraged", "detector": "AI detectors (general)", "effective_date": "unknown", "announced_date": "2026-05", "summary": "USask's academic integrity site says GenAI detection tools are not reliable and that no detection tool has been approved for use at the university.", "quote": "Tools to detect text or other outputs produced by GenAI are not reliable. False accusations can be devastating. No detection tool has been approved for use at the University of Saskatchewan.", "source_url": "https://academic-integrity.usask.ca/gen-ai.php", "source_type": "official page", "verified_on": "2026-09-26", "notes": "USask Academic Integrity 'GenAI' page, heading 'Detection tools: Not approved'; page footer 'Page updated May 2026' (announced_date = that update). Also: 'USask continues to monitor and assess detection strategies.' Page links Waterloo's 'September 2025' announcement. Could arguably be 'not-enabled'; 'discouraged' chosen because the statement covers all detection tools." }, { "institution": "University of Toronto", "country": "Canada", "status": "discouraged", "detector": "AI detectors (general)", "effective_date": "unknown", "announced_date": "2025-06-18", "summary": "U of T's teaching FAQ says the University does not support using AI-detection software on student work, citing unreliability, false flags of human writing, and privacy/IP concerns.", "quote": "The University does not support the use of AI-detection software programs on student work. None of these software programs have been found to be sufficiently reliable, and they are known to incorrectly flag instances of AI use in human-written content.", "source_url": "https://www.vptl.utoronto.ca/teaching-initiatives/generative-artificial-intelligence/", "source_type": "official page", "verified_on": "2026-09-26", "notes": "Office of the Vice-Provost, Teaching & Learning, 'Generative Artificial Intelligence in the Classroom: FAQ's'; this answer is marked 'Updated: June 18, 2025' (announced_date = that update date; the University's position predates it). The source lead https://www.viceprovostundergrad.utoronto.ca/16072-2/teaching-initiatives/generative-artificial-intelligence/ now 301-redirects to the VPTL site (Wayback copy 2026-01-12 shows identical text). The FAQ also cites privacy/IP concerns about sharing student work with detectors. The page does not mention Turnitin; U of T's CTSI plagiarism-detection page (modified 2026-09-22) also does not mention an AI feature, so status is 'discouraged' rather than a documented Turnitin opt-out." }, { "institution": "University of Victoria", "country": "Canada", "status": "discouraged", "detector": "AI detectors (general)", "effective_date": "unknown", "announced_date": "unknown", "summary": "UVic's academic integrity policy FAQ says instructors are not permitted to use AI tools to determine whether a student violated the policy, calling them unreliable and contrary to privacy policy, and they cannot be used as evidence.", "quote": "As such, they are not permitted as part of any investigation or as evidence when considering a potential violation.", "source_url": "https://www.uvic.ca/students/academics/academic-integrity/policy-faqs.php", "source_type": "official page", "verified_on": "2026-09-26", "notes": "'Policy on Academic Integrity - Students' FAQ page, answer to 'Can instructors use AI-detection software to detect violations?' (no page date). Full answer begins: 'UVic does not permit instructors to use generative artificial intelligence tools (GAITs) to grade students’ work or to determine whether a student has violated the Policy on Academic Integrity. These tools are known to produce unreliable and often inaccurate results, and violates the university's privacy policy.' UVic also does not use plagiarism-detection tools at all (LTI page snippet: 'UVic has chosen not to use plagiarism detection tools due to concerns about how they collect and store student information'). Stronger than advice; recorded as 'discouraged' since no institutional detector exists." }, { "institution": "University of Waterloo", "country": "Canada", "status": "disabled", "detector": "Turnitin AI writing indicator", "effective_date": "2025-09", "announced_date": "2025-05", "summary": "After consulting deans and committees, Waterloo decided to discontinue Turnitin's AI detection tool, which stopped being available to Waterloo users as of September 2025, citing unreliability, bias, internal testing and cost.", "quote": "the decision was made to discontinue the AI detection tool in Turnitin. This function will no longer be available to University of Waterloo users as of September 2025.", "source_url": "https://uwaterloo.ca/associate-vice-president-academic/discontinuing-use-ai-detection-functionality-turnitin", "source_type": "official page", "verified_on": "2026-09-26", "notes": "Office of the Associate Vice-President, Academic page 'Discontinuing use of AI detection functionality in Turnitin - September 2025' (page metadata og:updated_time 2025-05-05). Announcement: AVPA news item 'Waterloo discontinuing the use of AI detection tool Turnitin.com: September 2025', dated Monday, May 5, 2025 https://uwaterloo.ca/associate-vice-president-academic/news/waterloo-discontinuing-use-ai-detection-tool-turnitincom ; an IST blog post 'IT information for instructors - Spring 2025' dated May 1, 2025 already states 'Effective September 2025, AI detection functionality in Turnitin will no longer be available' (so announced_date given as month only). Rationale on page: research shows detectors unreliable and biased against non-native English writers; internal ITMS testing 'flagged human written text as 100% generated by AI'; 'Given the expense of the tool in U.S." }, { "institution": "University of Windsor", "country": "Canada", "status": "discouraged", "detector": "AI detectors (general)", "effective_date": "unknown", "announced_date": "unknown", "summary": "UWindsor's AI guidance for instructors states that AI detectors are not permitted for use at the university because of low efficacy, bias against certain groups and the risk of false accusations.", "quote": "AI detectors are not permitted for use at UWindsor due to their low efficacy, demonstrated biases against certain groups, and the potential for false accusations.", "source_url": "https://www.uwindsor.ca/ai/311/academic-integrity", "source_type": "official page", "verified_on": "2026-09-26", "notes": "UWindsor Artificial Intelligence site, 'Academic Integrity for Instructors', section 'AI Detectors' (no page date). Same wording on the students' page https://www.uwindsor.ca/ai/315/academic-integrity-students ; 'Generative AI for Instructors' page (snippet): 'AI detection tools are currently unreliable and should not be used as evidence of academic integrity breaches.' Stronger than advice (use not permitted); recorded as 'discouraged' because no institutional detector is in use. Page does not mention Turnitin." }, { "institution": "Université Laval", "country": "Canada", "status": "discouraged", "detector": "AI detectors (general)", "effective_date": "unknown", "announced_date": "unknown", "summary": "Laval's Teaching Support Service advises against using AI-detection software because of reliability limits and ethical and pedagogical concerns, noting such use may run counter to the university's guiding principles on AI.", "quote": "En raison des limites de fiabilité des logiciels de détection de l’IA et des enjeux éthiques et pédagogiques qui leur sont associés, le Service de soutien à l’enseignement de l’Université Laval déconseille leur utilisation.", "source_url": "https://www.enseigner.ulaval.ca/numerique-et-ia/outils-detection-plagiat", "source_type": "official page", "verified_on": "2026-09-26", "notes": "Enseigner (Service de soutien à l'enseignement) page 'Outils pour la détection du plagiat' (no page date). Quote in original French; translation: 'Because of the reliability limits of AI-detection software and the ethical and pedagogical issues associated with it, Université Laval's Teaching Support Service advises against its use.' Page also says such tools may 'aller à l’encontre de l’esprit des Principes directeurs concernant l’IA dans l’enseignement et l’apprentissage'. No mention of Turnitin." }, { "institution": "Western University", "country": "Canada", "status": "disabled", "detector": "Turnitin AI writing indicator", "effective_date": "2024-01", "announced_date": "2024-01-18", "summary": "Western used Turnitin's AI detection during the free preview in 2023 but stopped using it in January 2024 when it became a paid feature, with the vice-provost citing insufficient accuracy.", "quote": "“That’s really not a high enough standard of accuracy for us at this point to put our endorsement of the tool out there for all of our instructors and others to use,” said Lewis.", "source_url": "https://westerngazette.ca/news/administration/western-stops-using-turnitin-ai-written-detection-software/article_f34a50d8-b647-11ee-bc98-678b913cbcc0.html", "source_type": "news (quotes official)", "verified_on": "2026-09-26", "notes": "Western Gazette (student newspaper) article by Sophia Schiefler, News Editor, published 2024-01-18; quotes Susan Lewis, Western's vice-provost of academic programs ('Currently there are no fully effective tools available for accurately detecting the use of AI in assignments'). Article: 'Western Technology Services announced on Friday in a post to X that Western University had used a free preview of the software last year but decided not to move forward with the platform in January after it became a paid feature.' Effective month from that sentence; exact day not given. The WTS post on X was not independently retrieved; no standalone Western (uwo.ca) page found via search." }, { "institution": "Wilfrid Laurier University", "country": "Canada", "status": "discouraged", "detector": "AI detectors (general)", "effective_date": "unknown", "announced_date": "unknown", "summary": "Laurier's teaching guide states that the university does not endorse any generative AI detection tools and will not accept their outputs as evidence of academic misconduct.", "quote": "Laurier does not endorse any generative AI detection tools and outputs from these tools will not be accepted as evidence of academic misconduct.", "source_url": "https://researchcentres.wlu.ca/teaching-and-learning/gen-ai/understanding-generative-ai-tools.html", "source_type": "official page", "verified_on": "2026-09-26", "notes": "'Understanding Generative AI Tools', Guide to Teaching, Learning and Assessment, Wilfrid Laurier University (no page date). 'discouraged' used because the university endorses no detector. No Turnitin-specific statement found." }, { "institution": "York University", "country": "Canada", "status": "discouraged", "detector": "AI detectors (general)", "effective_date": "unknown", "announced_date": "unknown", "summary": "York's academic integrity guidance for instructors says York does not currently recommend AI detection tools, which can be unreliable, and tells instructors not to rely on them as evidence.", "quote": "While numerous AI detection tools are available, York does not currently recommend their use. These tools struggle to keep pace with the rapid evolution of AI and can be unreliable, producing both false positives and false negatives.", "source_url": "https://www.yorku.ca/unit/vpacad/academic-integrity/ai-technology-and-academic-integrity/", "source_type": "official page", "verified_on": "2026-09-26", "notes": "Office of the Vice-Provost Academic, 'AI Technology & Academic Integrity for Instructors' (page meta modified 2026-05-26; no visible date). Same page: 'Do not rely on AI detection tools as evidence'. Student-facing page https://www.yorku.ca/unit/vpacad/academic-integrity/ai-technology-academic-integrity/ (modified 2026-06-23): 'Do not rely on AI-detection tools or percentage scores that claim to show whether writing was AI-generated.' Neither page mentions Turnitin." }, { "institution": "Australian Catholic University", "country": "Australia", "status": "disabled", "detector": "Turnitin AI writing indicator", "effective_date": "2025-03-17", "announced_date": "2025-03-12", "summary": "ACU announced to staff that it would pilot turning off Turnitin's AI Indicator from 17 March 2025, citing limited reliability and other concerns, while keeping the Similarity Report; ABC later reported the university abandoned the tool.", "quote": "ACU will pilot turning off the Turnitin Artificial Intelligence (AI) Indicator tool from Monday 17 March.", "source_url": "https://staff.acu.edu.au/our_university/news/2025/march/turnitin-ai-indicator-tool", "source_type": "official page", "verified_on": "2026-09-26", "notes": "ACU staff news item 'Turnitin AI Indicator tool' dated 12 March 2025. Page lists reasons: limited reliability, inability to distinguish AI-assisted editing from full generation, false negatives and reliance on the percentage, lack of transparency to students, and 'many Australian institutions have also turned off the functionality'; also 'After Monday 17 March, staff will not be able to view the AI% reports.' Wording is 'pilot'. Corroboration (named official): ABC News 2025-10-09 (Julia Bergin) https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10-09/artificial-intelligence-cheating-australian-catholic-university/105863524 reports ACU 'abandoned the Turnitin tool in March after finding it to be ineffective' and quotes DVC Prof Tania Broadley: 'any case where Turnitin's AI detection tool was the sole evidence was dismissed immediately.'" }, { "institution": "Australian National University", "country": "Australia", "status": "disabled", "detector": "Turnitin AI writing indicator", "effective_date": "2024-01-01", "announced_date": "unknown", "summary": "ANU made Turnitin's AI writing detection available to all staff from 5 April 2023, then disabled the functionality from 1 January 2024 so it is no longer available to ANU staff.", "quote": "UPDATE: ANU has disabled this functionality as of 1 January, 2024 in Turnitin and it is no longer available for ANU staff.", "source_url": "https://telt.weblogs.anu.edu.au/ai-writing-detection-now-available-in-turnitin/", "source_type": "official page", "verified_on": "2026-09-26", "notes": "ANU TELT @ SMP blog post 'AI writing detection now available in Turnitin', originally dated April 13, 2023; the UPDATE banner is undated, so announced_date is unknown. Same page: 'From 5 April, 2023, a new feature became available in Turnitin for all staff at ANU'. Resolves tracker disagreement: it was enabled Apr 2023, then disabled effective 2024-01-01. Note The Guardian (2023-04-16, Caitlin Cassidy) reported ANU among universities that 'decided against using the tool while in its infancy', which conflicts with ANU's own post saying it was available from 5 April 2023; ANU's page is preferred." }, { "institution": "Charles Sturt University", "country": "Australia", "status": "disabled", "detector": "Turnitin AI writing indicator", "effective_date": "2024-01-01", "announced_date": "2023-10-19", "summary": "Charles Sturt announced it was phasing out AI text detection software, barring the Turnitin AI Detection Tool for Session 202390 subjects and ending access to it and any other AI text detector from 1 January 2024.", "quote": "The Turnitin AI Detection Tool is not to be used for any Session 202390 subjects, and from 1 January 2024, Charles Sturt will no longer provide access to the Turnitin Tool or any other AI text detection software.", "source_url": "https://www.csu.edu.au/division/learning-teaching/about-and-contacts/news-and-updates/archived", "source_type": "official page", "verified_on": "2026-09-26", "notes": "Division of Learning and Teaching 'Archived news and updates', item 'Turnitin AI Detection Tool' dated 19 October 2023 ('We are phasing out the use of AI text detection software, including the Turnitin AI Detection Tool.'). The source lead (current-students generative-ai page) does not mention detection. CSU's Assoc Prof Mark Bassett (academic integrity and AI) is a prominent public critic of AI detectors (ABC 2025-10-20)." }, { "institution": "Curtin University", "country": "Australia", "status": "disabled", "detector": "Turnitin AI writing indicator", "effective_date": "2026-01-01", "announced_date": "2025-09-04", "summary": "Curtin announced that Turnitin's AI writing detection feature would be disabled across all campuses and study periods from 1 January 2026, while Turnitin's text-matching originality checks remain active.", "quote": "From 1 January 2026, the AI writing detection feature in Turnitin will be disabled, with effect across all campuses and study periods.", "source_url": "https://www.curtin.edu.au/news/oasis-news/update-on-turnitin-ai-detection-tool/", "source_type": "official page", "verified_on": "2026-09-26", "notes": "Student OASIS news item 'Update on Turnitin AI-Detection Tool', page shows 'Published 04 September 2025' (meta article:published_time 2025-09-04T12:05:46); Stated rationale is 'fostering trust and clarity within a modern academic culture'. The page mentions NO internal audit and NO '20 percentage point' figure; those claims from secondary reporting are unsupported by this source. Corroborated by Curtin's student page https://www.curtin.edu.au/students/study-support/genai-use-at-curtin/ ('From 1 January 2026, Turnitin GenAI detection will be disabled at Curtin University... Curtin University will no longer use AI detection tools when assessing student work.')." }, { "institution": "Deakin University", "country": "Australia", "status": "not-enabled", "detector": "Turnitin AI writing indicator", "effective_date": "unknown", "announced_date": "unknown", "summary": "Deakin states that it does not use AI-detection software to assess student work; it declined to apply Turnitin's AI detector when the tool launched in 2023.", "quote": "While Deakin does not use AI-detection software to assess student work, using generative AI to write or redraft text in your thesis is not permitted.", "source_url": "https://www.deakin.edu.au/research/support-for-researchers/research-integrity/generative-artificial-intelligence-ai", "source_type": "official page", "verified_on": "2026-09-26", "notes": "Deakin research-integrity page 'Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI)' (footer (c) 2026; no page date). Decision date: ABC News 2023-06-02 (Iris Zhao, Sally Brooks) https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-06-02/international-students-say-ai-detectors-are-inaccurate/102394894 quotes Assoc Prof Trish McCluskey, director of digital learning: 'Until such a time as the university can test the efficacy and data management process of Turnitin's new product, Deakin has chosen not to apply the tool in the marking of student assessments.' So not enabled since the April 2023 launch; exact date not stated, hence 'unknown'." }, { "institution": "Federation University Australia", "country": "Australia", "status": "restricted", "detector": "AI detectors (general)", "effective_date": "unknown", "announced_date": "2026-04-01", "summary": "Federation University's Academic Integrity Procedure states that AI detector results alone must not be treated as evidence of misconduct and that allegations require corroboration.", "quote": "AI detector results alone must not be treated as evidence of misconduct. Allegations require corroboration (e.g. version history, viva discussion, draft comparison).", "source_url": "https://policy.federation.edu.au/academic_governance/procedures/academic_integrity/ch01.php", "source_type": "official page", "verified_on": "2026-09-26", "notes": "Academic Integrity Procedure, policy code AG1944, section 1B (staff detection strategies); 'Approval date: 01 April 2026', next review 25 March 2029 (announced_date = approval date; Web (HTML) version of the governance document. The procedure does not state whether Turnitin's AI indicator is switched on at Federation, so detector is recorded as 'AI detectors (general)'." }, { "institution": "James Cook University", "country": "Australia", "status": "not-enabled", "detector": "AI detectors (general)", "effective_date": "unknown", "announced_date": "2026-08-13", "summary": "JCU's Deputy Vice-Chancellor Education said the university has chosen not to invest in AI detection tools because they are unreliable and cannot keep pace with new AI releases, relying on assessment design instead.", "quote": "“We have chosen not to invest in AI detection tools. They are unreliable, and they cannot keep pace with new AI releases,” Professor Parsell said.", "source_url": "https://www.jcu.edu.au/news/releases/2026/august/researchers-warn-ai-detection-tools-unfit-for-student-assessment", "source_type": "official page", "verified_on": "2026-09-26", "notes": "JCU media release 'Researchers warn AI detection tools unfit for student assessment', 13 August 2026 (meta last-modified 2026-08-13). Speaker: Professor Mitch Parsell, JCU Deputy Vice-Chancellor Education, who 'said the University approaches the assurance of learning through assessment design, not detection.' The release does not say when the decision was made or whether Turnitin's indicator was ever enabled, so effective_date 'unknown'." }, { "institution": "Macquarie University", "country": "Australia", "status": "disabled", "detector": "Turnitin AI writing indicator", "effective_date": "unknown", "announced_date": "2023-08", "summary": "Macquarie disabled Turnitin's AI detection feature as of Session 2, 2023, after it had been switched on by default at launch in April 2023.", "quote": "Please note: Macquarie University has disabled the Turnitin AI detection feature as of Session 2, 2023.", "source_url": "https://teche.mq.edu.au/2023/03/turnitin-artificial-intelligence-writing-detection/", "source_type": "official page", "verified_on": "2026-09-26", "notes": "Macquarie TECHE article by Mathew Hillier, published 28 March 2023, marked 'Article updated Aug 2023' (meta modified 2023-11-10); now labelled 'for historical information purposes only'. Effective date given only as 'Session 2, 2023' (no calendar date on the page), so effective_date is 'unknown' (Macquarie's Session 2 typically starts late July)." }, { "institution": "Monash University", "country": "Australia", "status": "discouraged", "detector": "AI detectors (general)", "effective_date": "unknown", "announced_date": "unknown", "summary": "Monash's teaching guidance states that no AI detection tools have been approved by its IT or privacy offices and that they cannot be used as evidence when reporting a suspected breach, citing privacy, equity, data security and reliability concerns.", "quote": "no AI detection tools have been approved by eSolutions or by the University Data Protection and Privacy Office, and absolutely cannot be used as evidence if reporting a student for suspected breach of the conditions of assessment.", "source_url": "https://www.monash.edu/learning-teaching/teachhq/Teaching-practices/artificial-intelligence/ai-and-assessment", "source_type": "official page", "verified_on": "2026-09-26", "notes": "Monash TeachHQ 'AI and assessment' page, section 'Why AI detection tools are not approved for use at Monash'; page footer 'Last updated: Sep 2026' (no original date, so dates 'unknown'). Also: 'AI detection tools have not been approved because they raise significant implications for privacy, equity and data security. Status chosen as 'discouraged' (strong: prohibited as evidence) because the statement covers all AI detectors; note Monash's 'Teach with Turnitin' page intro mentions interpreting 'the AI detection feature, with appropriate caution', so whether Turnitin's toggle is technically on is unclear. The Guardian (2023-04-16) reported Monash decided against using Turnitin's tool at launch. Independent re-check by the lead researcher on 2026-09-26 was blocked (live page 403 to fetch tools; the Internet Archive capture of 2026-06-08 does not contain the section, and the page is marked 'Last updated: Sep 2026'). re-confirm before citing." }, { "institution": "Murdoch University", "country": "Australia", "status": "disabled", "detector": "Turnitin AI writing indicator", "effective_date": "unknown", "announced_date": "2026-05-28", "summary": "Murdoch's DVC Education told students that, after reviewing Turnitin configuration to align with other Western Australian universities, the university has disabled the use of AI detection reports while keeping Turnitin for originality checking.", "quote": "We’ve recently reviewed Turnitin configuration options to align with other Western Australian universities and have disabled the use of AI detection reports.", "source_url": "https://announcements.murdoch.edu.au/dubai/id/11294", "source_type": "official page", "verified_on": "2026-09-26", "notes": "Murdoch University student announcement 'Using Generative AI in your studies', 'Published: 28th May 2026', signed by Professor Don Klinger, DVC Education; posted in the Dubai-campus announcements channel (no identical Australia-channel post found via search). Same text: 'For written assignments, Turnitin remains an important tool for academic staff when assessing the originality of work'. The disable date is not given ('recently'), so effective_date 'unknown' (on or before 2026-05-28). 2026 development consistent with UWA (Feb 2026) and Curtin (Jan 2026) in WA." }, { "institution": "Southern Cross University", "country": "Australia", "status": "restricted", "detector": "AI detectors (general)", "effective_date": "unknown", "announced_date": "2026-09-10", "summary": "SCU's guidelines for higher-degree-research candidates and supervisors say automated AI-detection tools are unreliable and that supervisors must not rely on detector output as the sole basis for an allegation or referral.", "quote": "Supervisors must not rely on the output of an automated AI-detection tool as the sole basis for an allegation or referral.", "source_url": "https://www.scu.edu.au/media/scu-dep/graduate-school/documents/Guidelines-for-HDR-candidates-on-the-use-of-Generative-AI-Version-3.0-10-Sept-2026.pdf", "source_type": "policy PDF", "verified_on": "2026-09-26", "notes": "'Guidelines for HDR Candidates and Supervisors – Use of Generative Artificial Intelligence Tools', Version 3.0 (10 September 2026), clause 22. Clause 26: 'The University recognises that automated AI-detection tools are unreliable and can produce false positives. Any concern about undisclosed use of generative AI will be assessed on the totality of available evidence ... and not on the output of a detection tool alone.' SCOPE CAVEAT: applies to higher-degree-by-research candidates, not coursework; SCU's coursework position on Turnitin's AI indicator was not found." }, { "institution": "University of Canberra", "country": "Australia", "status": "enabled-with-caveats", "detector": "Turnitin AI writing indicator", "effective_date": "unknown", "announced_date": "2025-10-23", "summary": "The University of Canberra states it has enabled Turnitin's AI Writing detection tool, with scores that may trigger a Learning Validation Conversation and/or contribute as one piece of evidence in suspected misconduct cases.", "quote": "The University of Canberra has enabled the Turnitin AI Writing detection tool; the associated AI Writing detection scores and report may lead to an LVC and/or contribute as a piece of evidence in suspected academic misconduct cases.", "source_url": "https://www.canberra.edu.au/about-uc/l-and-t/genai-and-assessment-at-uc", "source_type": "official page", "verified_on": "2026-09-26", "notes": "UC 'GenAI and Assessment at UC' page, 'Special notes' section; page meta dcterms.created 2025-10-23, modified 2026-08-18 (announced_date = page creation date; no effective date given). LVC = Learning Validation Conversation (defined on same page). Research students: iThenticate used as the AI writing detection tool. IMPORTANT correction: the old source lead https://canberra.libanswers.com/faq/274311 now 404s (no Wayback copy), and PLEASE's 'Schools that Banned AI Detectors' list cites UC, but UC's own pages say the tool is ENABLED (search snippet of the FAQ also read 'Turnitin's generated AI content matching feature has been enabled at UC'). Caveat is mild (one piece of evidence), not an explicit 'not sole evidence' rule." }, { "institution": "University of Melbourne", "country": "Australia", "status": "restricted", "detector": "Turnitin AI writing indicator", "effective_date": "unknown", "announced_date": "2026-02-26", "summary": "Melbourne makes Turnitin's AI writing detection tool available to staff (not students) but states that an AI writing detection report alone is not sufficient evidence for an allegation.", "quote": "Importantly, an AI writing detection report alone is not sufficient evidence for an allegation.", "source_url": "https://academicintegrity.unimelb.edu.au/plagiarism-and-collusion/advice-for-students-regarding-turnitin-and-ai-writing-detection", "source_type": "official page", "verified_on": "2026-09-26", "notes": "Academic Integrity site page 'Advice for students regarding Turnitin and AI writing detection'; 'Last updated by: Shaeley Henderson on 26 Feb 2026' (meta last-modified 2026-02-26; announced_date = last update). Same page: 'Turnitin’s artificial intelligence (AI) writing detection tool is accessible to staff.' Staff page: https://academicintegrity.unimelb.edu.au/staff-resources/turnitins-ai-writing-detection-tool (search snippet: 'The University makes the Turnitin AI writing detection tool available to staff to assist with flagging potential AI misuse'). The Guardian (2023-04-16) reported Melbourne adopted the tool at launch as a 'flag' for further investigation; ABC News 2025-10-20 (Julia Bergin) confirmed Melbourne among 'more than a dozen institutions' using AI detection, all saying it was never used as sole evidence." }, { "institution": "University of Queensland", "country": "Australia", "status": "disabled", "detector": "Turnitin AI writing indicator", "effective_date": "unknown", "announced_date": "unknown", "summary": "UQ's teaching institute states that the Turnitin AI detection tool previously available to UQ staff was disabled in mid 2025, calling AI detectors including Turnitin flawed and unreliable and telling staff not to upload work to external detectors.", "quote": "At UQ we had the Turnitin AI detection tool available for staff to use, this tool was disabled in mid 2025.", "source_url": "https://itali.uq.edu.au/teaching-guidance/generative-ai-teaching-learning-and-assessment/rules-using-ai-assessment", "source_type": "official page", "verified_on": "2026-09-26", "notes": "Institute for Teaching and Learning Innovation (ITaLI) page 'UQ's rules for using AI in assessment', section 'AI detection' (meta published 2025-01-13, modified 2026-08-13; the 'Updated May 2025' label on the page belongs to a publisher-requirements table, not this statement). Effective date given only as 'mid 2025' (no month), so 'unknown'. Also: 'AI detection tools, including Turnitin, are flawed and unreliable' and 'It is important that UQ staff not upload student work to external AI detection tools'. Corroboration: UQ Library 'AI for assessment' guide (last updated Sep 25, 2026) https://guides.library.uq.edu.au/tools-and-techniques/ai-student-hub/ai-for-assessment : 'UQ does not use AI detection tools.' Note: some older UQ course profiles still carry boilerplate that submissions 'may be examined using AI detection capabilities in Turnitin'." }, { "institution": "University of Sydney", "country": "Australia", "status": "restricted", "detector": "Turnitin AI writing indicator", "effective_date": "unknown", "announced_date": "2026-06-02", "summary": "Sydney says Turnitin's AI detection tool may be used when AI misuse is suspected, but the score will never be the only evidence in an integrity case; its 2024 TEQSA submission says the tool is available only to the central Office of Educational Integrity.", "quote": "It’s important to note that the AI detector score would not be the only evidence relied upon for an academic integrity case, but will be considered alongside other relevant evidence.", "source_url": "https://www.sydney.edu.au/students/academic-integrity/artificial-intelligence.html", "source_type": "official page", "verified_on": "2026-09-26", "notes": "Student academic-integrity page 'Artificial intelligence', 'Last updated: 02 June 2026' (announced_date = that update date; the policy is older). Same page: 'the Turnitin AI detection tool may be used to evaluate the situation.' Access restriction documented in the University's TEQSA Request for Information response (Action Plan PDF, uploaded 2024-07): https://educational-innovation.sydney.edu.au/teaching@sydney/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/USYD-TEQSA-RFI-response.pdf ('AI-based AI detection tools (from Turnitin) have been made available to staff in the central Office of Educational Integrity. Due to its limitations, this tool has not been made available to other staff, or students.'; History: The Guardian (2023-04-16) reported Sydney initially declined the feature without 'adequate testing or visibility'." }, { "institution": "University of Western Australia", "country": "Australia", "status": "not-enabled", "detector": "AI detectors (general)", "effective_date": "unknown", "announced_date": "2026-02-16", "summary": "UWA's Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Education) wrote that the university has decided not to use any AI detection tools because they are unreliable, inequitable and unsuitable for high-stakes decisions.", "quote": "The University of Western Australia has taken several actions to address the issue of AI – the most significant being the decision not to use any AI detection tools.", "source_url": "https://www.uwa.edu.au/news/article/2026/february/what-we-are-doing-about-ai-at-uwa", "source_type": "official page", "verified_on": "2026-09-26", "notes": "UWA news article 'What we are doing about AI at UWA', dated 16/02/2026, by Professor Guy Littlefair, Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Education and Student Experience). Also: 'evidence continues to mount that such tools are unreliable, inequitable and unsuitable for high-stakes assessment decisions' and 'Among Group of Eight universities, at least half have also decided not to use any AI detection tools.' The article does not say when the decision took effect or whether Turnitin's indicator was ever on (The Guardian 2023-04-16 reported UWA decided against the Turnitin tool at launch), hence effective_date 'unknown' and status 'not-enabled'." }, { "institution": "University of Wollongong", "country": "Australia", "status": "not-enabled", "detector": "AI detectors (general)", "effective_date": "unknown", "announced_date": "2023-08-30", "summary": "UOW's University Education Committee minutes record the Chair confirming that UOW's position was not to use any AI detection tools because false positives were too high, and not to do so until the false-positive rate is much lower.", "quote": "The Chair confirmed that UOW’s current position is not to use any AI detection tools, as the incidence of false positives is too high.", "source_url": "https://documents.uow.edu.au/content/groups/public/@web/@gld/documents/doc/uow277658.pdf", "source_type": "policy PDF", "verified_on": "2026-09-26", "notes": "University Education Committee minutes, meeting 4/2023 held Wednesday 30 August 2023 (Chair: Prof Theo Farrell). CAVEAT: this is a 2023 position; no later UOW statement confirming or reversing it was found (search of uow.edu.au returned no newer policy page). The Guardian (2023-04-16) reported UOW said Turnitin's tools launched with 'minimum notice' and issues needed resolving before integration." }, { "institution": "UNSW Sydney", "country": "Australia", "status": "enabled-with-caveats", "detector": "Turnitin AI writing indicator", "effective_date": "2023-04-05", "announced_date": "2025-11-12", "summary": "UNSW authorises only Turnitin's AI Writing Detection Tool for flagging improper AI use, but tells staff a Turnitin AI flag is merely a trigger for investigation and that markers must rely on professional judgement.", "quote": "To be clear: if Turnitin identifies the potential for AI writing in a response, this is merely a flag for an academic investigation. Markers should rely on their own professional judgement, not the AI detection tool.", "source_url": "https://www.teaching.unsw.edu.au/ai/ai-assessment-guidance", "source_type": "official page", "verified_on": "2026-09-26", "notes": "UNSW Staff Teaching Gateway 'Guidance on AI in assessment', dated Wednesday 12 November 2025 (announced_date = page date). Also: 'UNSW only authorises the use of Turnitin's AI Writing Detection Tool for detecting improper AI use." }, { "institution": "Victoria University", "country": "Australia", "status": "disabled", "detector": "Turnitin AI writing indicator", "effective_date": "unknown", "announced_date": "unknown", "summary": "Victoria University's VU Collaborate help pages state that Turnitin's AI Writing Detection feature is switched off (by default) from the start of 2026 Semester 1, Block 1 (H1B1).", "quote": "Beginning from the start of 2026 Semester 1, Block 1 (H1B1), Turnitin’s AI Writing Detection feature will be switched off.", "source_url": "https://vucollaboratehelp.vu.edu.au/help-guides/assessment/turnitin-feedback-studio/801-turnitin-similarity-report", "source_type": "official page", "verified_on": "2026-09-26", "notes": "VU Collaborate Help guide 'Viewing Turnitin Similarity Report' (no page date). Same page and the 'Enabling the Turnitin Similarity Report' guide (https://vucollaboratehelp.vu.edu.au/help-guides/assessment/turnitin-feedback-studio/805-enabling-the-turnitin-similarity-report) carry the note 'From 2026 Semester 1, Block 1 (H1B1), Turnitin's AI Writing Detection feature has been switched off by default.' 'By default' leaves open whether staff can re-enable it per assignment; no separate VU announcement found. Effective date given only as the start of 2026 H1B1 (VU block-model term; no calendar date on page), so 'unknown'." }, { "institution": "Western Sydney University", "country": "Australia", "status": "enabled-with-caveats", "detector": "Turnitin AI writing indicator", "effective_date": "unknown", "announced_date": "2024-11", "summary": "Western Sydney University's academic integrity guidelines tell students that staff use AI writing detection reports only as a prompt to look for other indicators of inappropriate generative AI use.", "quote": "Staff use AI writing detection reports as a prompt to look at other indicators in your writing that may suggest inappropriate use of generative AI.", "source_url": "https://www.westernsydney.edu.au/learning-futures/teaching-support/academic-integrity-guide", "source_type": "official page", "verified_on": "2026-09-26", "notes": "'WSU Academic Integrity Guidelines – A guide to academic integrity for Western students', marked 'Updated November 2024' (announced_date = that month). Students may then be asked to demonstrate their learning (answer questions, describe process, show drafts). WSU library blog posts (2024-2026) say submissions 'will be checked by the Turnitin AI Detector'. The Guardian (2023-04-16) reported WSU adopted the tool 'for educational, rather than punitive purposes'. The page does not explicitly bar the report as sole evidence." }, { "institution": "Dublin City University", "country": "Ireland", "status": "discouraged", "detector": "AI detectors (general)", "effective_date": "unknown", "announced_date": "2025-03-06", "summary": "DCU's position statement on AI tools tells staff not to use AI detection software on student work, citing poor effectiveness and the risk that submitted work is harvested without consent.", "quote": "Do not use AI detection software to review student’s work for plagiarism. Such tools are currently not particularly effective, but more importantly once submitted to an AI tool, the work can be harvested by the AI platform without student’s permission.", "source_url": "https://www.dcu.ie/ocoo/dcu-position-statement-use-artificial-intelligence-tools", "source_type": "official page", "verified_on": "2026-09-26", "notes": "'DCU Position Statement on the Use of Artificial Intelligence Tools' (Office of the Chief Operations Officer), section '4) Protect Your Own and Students Work'. page metadata published 06/03/2025, modified 25/07/2025. Aimed at uploading work to (external) AI tools; does not state whether a Turnitin AI indicator is licensed. DCU moved from Ouriginal to 'Turnitin Similarity' from 1 September 2025 (TEU Update Jun 26 2025, https://www.dcu.ie/teu/teu-update-jun-26-2025); its Turnitin page describes text matching only." }, { "institution": "Maynooth University", "country": "Ireland", "status": "enabled-with-caveats", "detector": "Turnitin AI writing indicator", "effective_date": "unknown", "announced_date": "2025-04-02", "summary": "Maynooth's student GenAI guidelines say Turnitin gives teaching staff a second score indicating possible GenAI use, which is not definitive proof but may be a first step in an academic integrity process.", "quote": "Turnitin also provides teaching staff with a second score outlining possible GenAI use (students will not have access to this). This Turnitin GenAI score is not definitive proof of GenAI use.", "source_url": "https://www.maynoothuniversity.ie/sites/default/files/assets/document/MU%20GenAI%20Guidelines%20For%20Students%20(March%202025).pdf", "source_type": "policy PDF", "verified_on": "2026-09-26", "notes": "'Maynooth University Student Guidelines for GenAI', Version 1.2, 'Last Updated 02 April 2025', section 5.3 'GenAI detection and Turnitin' (continues: 'However, if it indicates possible use beyond that permitted (see section 5.2 above), it might be a first step in a process of ensuring academic integrity.'). Same wording in the Sept 2024 v1.3 working guidelines PDF and (per search snippet) on the Cloudflare-protected page https://www.maynoothuniversity.ie/student-success/your-academic-journey/how-can-i-use-genai-my-assessments." }, { "institution": "University College Cork", "country": "Ireland", "status": "not-enabled", "detector": "AI detectors (general)", "effective_date": "unknown", "announced_date": "2026-05-15", "summary": "UCC's academic integrity policy states that AI detection software is not sanctioned by the University for detecting or investigating alleged misconduct, because it is unreliable, shifts the burden of proof and may be biased.", "quote": "The use of AI detection software for the detection or investigation of alleged academic misconduct is not sanctioned by the University. Detection software cannot provide reliable results, and it is prone to both false positives and false negatives.", "source_url": "https://www.ucc.ie/en/academicgov/policies/standards/academicintegrityforcontinuousassessments/", "source_type": "official page", "verified_on": "2026-09-26", "notes": "'Academic Integrity for Continuous Assessments Policy', Version 3.0, 'Approved by: Academic Board 13 May 2026; Academic Council 15 May 2026', 'Applicable to students registered 2026-2027 and beyond'; clause 6.6 (continues: 'These tools shift the burden of proof from the University to the student, undermine trust in academic judgement, and may perpetuate linguistic and cultural biases.'). The predecessor policy for 2025-26 (v2.2, approved by Academic Council 6 June 2025; https://www.ucc.ie/en/academicgov/policies/standards/academicintegrityforexaminationsandassessmentspolicy2025-2026/) had the same rule at 6.3 ('GenAI detection software'), so the position pre-dates 2026. UCC's GenAI toolkit (updated 18 Sept 2026) adds: 'Educators should not run student work through any AI detector tools that are external to their institution'. Turnitin not named. Coded not-enabled (formal prohibition)." }, { "institution": "University of Galway", "country": "Ireland", "status": "not-enabled", "detector": "AI detectors (general)", "effective_date": "unknown", "announced_date": "unknown", "summary": "Galway's academic integrity FAQs say the University does not authorise or advocate using AI detectors on student work because they have not been shown to be effective, and staff must never upload work to third-party detectors.", "quote": "At present, University of Galway does not authorise or advocate the use of so-called AI Detectors to check students’ work for the presence of generative AI content, as they have been shown to not be effective at present.", "source_url": "https://www.universityofgalway.ie/academicintegrity/faqs/", "source_type": "official page", "verified_on": "2026-09-26", "notes": "Next sentence: 'You should never upload student work to third-party AI detection software, as this may constitute an improper use of personal data and/or intellectual property.' Turnitin not named. 'Does not authorise' read as a non-permission (coded not-enabled); 'discouraged' is an arguable alternative." }, { "institution": "University of Limerick", "country": "Ireland", "status": "disabled", "detector": "Turnitin AI writing indicator (AI add-in)", "effective_date": "2024-03", "announced_date": "2024-03-07", "summary": "UL discontinued Turnitin's AI detection add-in, deciding after consultation with Assistant Deans of Academic Affairs not to sign up to it from March 2024, in line with national (NAIN) guidance on the limits of AI detectors.", "quote": "The Academic Integrity Unit communicated that the decision was made to not sign-up to the Turnitin Artificial Intelligence add-in from March 2024.", "source_url": "https://www.ul.ie/brightspace/articles/turnitin", "source_type": "official page", "verified_on": "2026-09-26", "notes": "Brightspace staff knowledge-base article 'Turnitin', notice 'Update regarding the Turnitin AI add-in (7th March, 2024)'; The Academic Integrity Unit page https://www.ul.ie/provost/functions-processes/academic-integrity-unit/generative-artificial-intelligence asks 'Why has the Turnitin AI Add-on been discontinued in UL?' and says the decision followed consultation with the Assistant Deans of Academic Affairs - hence coded 'disabled' (it had been available before March 2024)." }, { "institution": "Lincoln University (NZ)", "country": "New Zealand", "status": "restricted", "detector": "Turnitin AI writing indicator", "effective_date": "unknown", "announced_date": "2025-12-02", "summary": "Lincoln University's GenAI staff guidelines permit Turnitin's AI detection only as a screening tool whose results must be verified before any referral, and bar AI detection tools not approved by ITS.", "quote": "Use Turnitin’s AI detection as a screening tool only – results must be verified before any referral.", "source_url": "https://ltl.lincoln.ac.nz/assets/Uploads/Teaching/GenAI/GenAI-Staff-Guidelines-for-Learning-and-Teaching.pdf", "source_type": "policy PDF", "verified_on": "2026-09-26", "notes": "'Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) Staff Guidelines for Learning and Teaching', 'Last Modified: 02/12/2025' (announced_date = last modified, read as 2 Dec 2025 per NZ date format). Next bullet: 'Only use AI detection tools approved by ITS; unsupported tools are not allowed.' Guidelines support the University's GenAI Policy." }, { "institution": "University of Auckland", "country": "New Zealand", "status": "not-enabled", "detector": "Turnitin AI writing indicator", "effective_date": "2023-04-05", "announced_date": "unknown", "summary": "The University of Auckland piloted Turnitin's AI detection tool and asked Turnitin not to enable it for the university's account when it was released on 5 April 2023; the feature remains unactivated.", "quote": "The University of Auckland piloted this tool and requested that Turnitin does not enable this feature for our account when it was released on 5 April 2023.", "source_url": "https://teachwell.auckland.ac.nz/learning-technologies/turnitin/", "source_type": "official page", "verified_on": "2026-09-26", "notes": "TeachWell Digital 'Turnitin' page, FAQ 'What about Turnitin's AI detection feature?'; 'Page updated 01/07/2026 (updated links to the IT Portal)'. Same page: 'Because our University has not activated the Turnitin AI detection feature. Students' submitted assessments are not used to train Turnitin's AI models.' Related: TeachWell 'Two-Lane Approach to assessment' page: 'The University of Auckland does not endorse the use of third-party AI detection tools, as these may be unreliable, create false positives, and may use student data to train their models.' Announcement date of the 2023 decision not shown." }, { "institution": "University of Canterbury", "country": "New Zealand", "status": "enabled-with-caveats", "detector": "Turnitin AI writing indicator", "effective_date": "unknown", "announced_date": "2026-09-24", "summary": "UC says Turnitin's AI writing detection is used in some courses as an initial screening step, and results may be partial evidence but would not generally be the sole evidence of inappropriate AI use.", "quote": "They may be used as partial evidence of inappropriate use of AI in an academic misconduct proceeding, but would not generally be used as the sole piece of evidence for inappropriate use of AI.", "source_url": "https://www.canterbury.ac.nz/study/study-support-info/gen-ai-at-uc/gen-ai---faqs-for-students", "source_type": "official page", "verified_on": "2026-09-26", "notes": "'Gen-AI: FAQs for students', FAQ 'Does UC use AI writing detectors to identify AI work?'; page meta DC.Date 2026-09-24 (announced_date = latest page date). Preceding sentence: 'AI writing detectors, specifically Turnitin, are used in some courses at UC as an initial step to identify assignments that may need closer attention.' Use is course-by-course, and 'would not generally' is softer than a formal sole-evidence ban, hence 'enabled-with-caveats'." }, { "institution": "Nanyang Technological University", "country": "Singapore", "status": "disabled", "detector": "AI detectors (general)", "effective_date": "2026-12-31", "announced_date": "2026-08-13", "summary": "NTU told faculty it will deactivate its institutional AI detector at the end of the semester (Dec 31) and stop using automated AI detection from 2027, calling the tools fundamentally unreliable; it will not rely on AI probability scores as evidence.", "quote": "Since these tools “lack empirical validity”, NTU will deactivate its institutional AI detector at the end of this semester, or Dec 31, said Dr Tan in the email seen by CNA.", "source_url": "https://www.channelnewsasia.com/singapore/ntu-ai-detector-stop-using-2027-probability-scores-misconduct-6320136", "source_type": "news (quotes official)", "verified_on": "2026-09-26", "notes": "CNA, 'NTU to stop using 'fundamentally unreliable' AI detector from 2027', by Ang Hwee Min, published 14 Aug 2026. Reports an email to faculty sent Thursday 13 Aug 2026 signed by Dr Tan Seng Chee, associate vice-provost for education transformation ('The university recognises that the current automated AI detection tools are “fundamentally unreliable”'). SCHEDULED CHANGE: as of 2026-09-26 the deactivation (end of semester / Dec 31) has not yet taken effect. CNA 2026-08-24 (https://www.channelnewsasia.com/singapore/ai-detection-tool-university-cheating-plagiarism-suss-nus-sutd-sit-smu-6337431) says NTU confirmed to CNA on Aug 22 it will stop using automated AI detection tools from 2027, quoting Prof Christian Wolfrum, deputy president and provost. The article does not name the detector product (CNA asked)." }, { "institution": "National University of Singapore", "country": "Singapore", "status": "restricted", "detector": "AI detectors (general)", "effective_date": "unknown", "announced_date": "2026-09-15", "summary": "NUS's Policy for the Use of AI in Teaching and Learning states that verdicts of AI-detection tools are not admissible as evidence to charge a student with academic dishonesty or to penalise work; NUS has also not enabled AI writing detection in its iThenticate.", "quote": "The verdicts of current AI tools purporting to determine whether an analysed input has been generated by AI are not admissible as evidence in a disciplinary process to charge a student with academic dishonesty", "source_url": "https://ctlt.nus.edu.sg/policy-for-use-of-ai-in-teaching-and-learning", "source_type": "policy PDF", "verified_on": "2026-09-26", "notes": "NUS 'Policy for the Use of AI in Teaching and Learning' (University Policy Workgroup chaired by A/P Loy Hui Chieh), section 2.6 'Academic Dishonesty and AI Detector Verdicts'; sentence continues '...or as justification to penalize student work.' Header: 'First version 5 Feb 2023; Second version 7 Aug 2024; Current version 15 Sept 2026' (announced_date = current version; Page serves the PDF 'NUS-AI-Teaching-Learning-Policy_15-Sept-2026.pdf'; Related: CTLT Systems Updates post 'iThenticate 2.0 migration' (1 Sep 2026, Kenneth Pinto) https://blog.nus.edu.sg/ctltsystemsupdates/ : 'Please note that AI writing detection is not enabled in NUS iThenticate, in line with the NUS Policy for use of AI in Teaching and Learning.' Whether Turnitin's AI indicator is on for coursework in Canvas was not confirmed." }, { "institution": "Singapore Management University", "country": "Singapore", "status": "restricted", "detector": "Turnitin AI writing indicator", "effective_date": "unknown", "announced_date": "2026-08-24", "summary": "SMU told CNA it continues to use AI detection tools but never as the sole basis for a misconduct finding, with its associate provost describing them as strictly one input among several.", "quote": "Associate Professor Michelle Lee, SMU's associate provost for undergraduate education, said that the tools are strictly \"one input among several\".", "source_url": "https://www.channelnewsasia.com/singapore/ai-detection-tool-university-cheating-plagiarism-suss-nus-sutd-sit-smu-6337431", "source_type": "news (quotes official)", "verified_on": "2026-09-26", "notes": "CNA, 'SUSS drops AI detector as more Singapore universities question reliability of such tools', by Ang Hwee Min, 24 Aug 2026. Same article: 'Singapore Management University (SMU) said that it continues to use AI detection tools, but \"never as the sole basis\" for finding misconduct.' and Assoc Prof Lee: 'Detection software has never carried this responsibility on its own at SMU', confirming no plans to change. SMU's own Centre for Teaching Excellence page https://cte.smu.edu.sg/ai/assessments/detect (search snippet) says 'Instructors submit student assignments to Turnitin AI Detection function', so detector recorded as Turnitin." }, { "institution": "Singapore University of Technology and Design", "country": "Singapore", "status": "not-enabled", "detector": "AI detectors (general)", "effective_date": "unknown", "announced_date": "2026-08-24", "summary": "SUTD confirmed to CNA that it does not use automated AI detection tools, and its associate provost said not using a campus-wide detector is consistent with how SUTD embeds AI in coursework.", "quote": "Not using a campus-wide AI detector is consistent with how the university uses AI in coursework, he added.", "source_url": "https://www.channelnewsasia.com/singapore/ai-detection-tool-university-cheating-plagiarism-suss-nus-sutd-sit-smu-6337431", "source_type": "news (quotes official)", "verified_on": "2026-09-26", "notes": "CNA, 24 Aug 2026, by Ang Hwee Min. 'He' = Professor Ashraf Kassim, SUTD's associate provost for education and innovation (named in the preceding sentence). Same article: 'The National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD) and Singapore Institute of Technology (SIT) confirmed that they do not use automated AI detection tools.' SUTD's 2025 GenAI primer PDF (search snippet) says tools like Turnitin AI Detector 'can be used to initiate an internal investigation', so individual use may be possible; no campus-wide detector." }, { "institution": "Hong Kong University of Science and Technology", "country": "Hong Kong", "status": "enabled-with-caveats", "detector": "Turnitin AI writing indicator", "effective_date": "unknown", "announced_date": "2023-12-27", "summary": "HKUST's Center for Education Innovation evaluated Turnitin's AI detection, called it unreliable, and does not recommend relying on it as a conclusive measure of misconduct or for punishment; HKUST has access to the feature under its licence.", "quote": "CEI does not recommend relying on Turnitin's AI writing detection capabilities as a conclusive measure of misconduct or as a tool for punishment.", "source_url": "https://cei.hkust.edu.hk/en-hk/news/turnitins-ai-detection-capabilities-0", "source_type": "official page", "verified_on": "2026-09-26", "notes": "HKUST Center for Education Innovation (CEI) news item 'Turnitin's AI Detection Capabilities' (updated evaluation). Also: 'CEI considers Turnitin to be an unreliable tool for AI detection.' Quote is the closing clause of a longer sentence beginning 'While there seems to be some improvement...'. Date 2023-12-27 taken from the CEI news listing (https://cei.hkust.edu.hk/en-hk/news?page=4); Guidance is from a teaching centre, not a university policy." }, { "institution": "University of Hong Kong", "country": "Hong Kong", "status": "enabled-with-caveats", "detector": "Turnitin AI writing indicator", "effective_date": "unknown", "announced_date": "unknown", "summary": "HKU's teaching and learning guidance says Turnitin's AI check produces false positives, tells teachers not to rely on it, and says detection results can only be used for reference.", "quote": "Teachers should therefore not rely on the results of the AI similarity check function, shown in the final blue box (marked ‘AI’) on Turnitin’s right-hand margin.", "source_url": "https://tl.hku.hk/plagiarism/genai-and-plagiarism/", "source_type": "official page", "verified_on": "2026-09-26", "notes": "HKU Teaching and Learning page 'GenAI and plagiarism' (meta modified 2024-08-23; no visible date, so dates 'unknown'). Also: 'Since the tools have limitations, the detection results can only be used for reference.' and teachers should speak with students about their process. The Turnitin AI box is visible to HKU teachers (ITS/Library guides describe the AI indicator), hence 'enabled-with-caveats'." }, { "institution": "Delft University of Technology (TU Delft)", "country": "Netherlands", "status": "discouraged", "detector": "AI detectors (general)", "effective_date": "unknown", "announced_date": "unknown", "summary": "TU Delft's Teaching Support guidance says relying on AI-detection tools to penalise students risks false accusations and that using them as a policing mechanism is neither effective nor equitable, recommending AI-resilient assessment instead.", "quote": "Relying on AI-detection tools to penalise students risks false accusations, unfair treatment, and a breakdown of trust between staff and students.", "source_url": "https://www.tudelft.nl/teaching-support/educational-advice/ai-in-education/ai-in-assessment/ai-detection-tools-usage", "source_type": "official page", "verified_on": "2026-09-26", "notes": "TU Delft Teaching Support page 'AI detection tools usage' (no page date). Next sentence: 'Using them as a policing mechanism is therefore neither effective nor equitable in way of upholding assessment integrity.' Advisory guidance from the teaching support unit; no statement on whether a Turnitin AI feature is licensed. Outside core regions;." }, { "institution": "University of Cape Town", "country": "South Africa", "status": "disabled", "detector": "Turnitin AI writing indicator", "effective_date": "2025-10-01", "announced_date": "2025-07-24", "summary": "UCT announced it would stop using AI detection tools such as Turnitin's AI Score from 1 October 2025 under its AI in Education Framework, endorsed by the Senate Teaching and Learning Committee in June 2025.", "quote": "UCT will no longer use detection tools like Turnitin’s AI Score to identify machine-generated student work from 1 October.", "source_url": "https://www.news.uct.ac.za/article/-2025-07-24-uct-scraps-flawed-ai-detectors", "source_type": "official page", "verified_on": "2026-09-26", "notes": "UCT News article 'UCT scraps flawed AI detectors' by Gugulethu Mashinini, 24 July 2025 (year of the 1 October date inferred from the article date; body also says 'from October 1'). Framework 'endorsed by the Senate Teaching and Learning Committee in June'; quotes Sukaina Walji, director of UCT's Centre for Innovation in Learning and Teaching: 'AI detectors are simply not reliable. There are no magic solutions.' Framework PDF: https://cilt.uct.ac.za/sites/default/files/media/documents/cilt_uct_ac_za/2486/uct-ai-in-education-framework-june-2025-final.pdf (not separately reviewed). Outside the core AU/NZ/CA/SG regions;'s 'any other non-US/non-UK country'." }, { "institution": "EPFL (École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne)", "country": "Switzerland", "status": "discouraged", "detector": "AI detectors (general)", "effective_date": "unknown", "announced_date": "2024-11", "summary": "EPFL's teaching guide says no AI detection tools are validated for student submissions and recommends teachers not use other detectors and not rely on AI-detection results from EPFL-provided tools to assess AI plagiarism.", "quote": "it is recommended that EPFL teachers do not use such tools other than those provided by EPFL, and that while using EPFL-provided tools, they do not rely on the results of AI-detection functionality to assess AI plagiarism.", "source_url": "https://www.epfl.ch/education/teaching/teaching-guide-2/grading-and-marking/ai-tools-and-student-assessment/", "source_type": "official page", "verified_on": "2026-09-26", "notes": "EPFL Teaching guide page 'AI tools and Student Assessment'; text says detectors do not appear effective 'at the time of writing (November 2024)' (announced_date = that month). Also: 'other than the similarity checking tools made available at EPFL (iThenticate, turnitin), there are currently no AI detection tools validated for use with sensitive data such as student assessment submissions.' Nuance: EPFL-provided similarity tools may display AI-detection output, but teachers are told not to rely on it. Quote begins mid-sentence ('For all these reasons, ...'). Outside core regions;." } ] }