Using Generative AI at Holland College: Deciding Whether to Use AI

Consider the following questions when deciding whether to use generative AI for your coursework:

• Does the course syllabus or instructor provide information on whether or how to use generative AI tools?

• Does my assignment have specific AI guidelines? 

• Am I losing an opportunity to learn an essential skill by using a generative AI tool?

• Will the generated content be in my final assignment?

• How will I acknowledge and attribute my use of generative AI?

Always double check your course syllabus and ask all of your instructors about whether it is appropriate to use generative AI for your assignments. 

You can also use AI as a student ethically, these activities include: 

Writing/ Researching

• Brainstorming/getting past the blank page                              
• Refine a thesis statement 
• Template for a paper 
• Create a reference list 
• Prompting AI to provide a list of errors in a passage of writing

Learning/studying

• Help explain complex concepts

• Summarize information from your class or research notes

• Practice learning languages 

Some text on this page was adapted from Ethical and Evaluative Use by Deakin University Library, which is licensed under CC BY-NC 4.0.