[Discussions] Evaluate Discussion Posts for Artificial Intelligence (AI) Generated Text

[rkelley1]

Problem statement:

Students may inappropriately rely upon Artificial Intelligent (AI) tools to generate text for their discussion board posts and quiz responses (for essay question type).

Proposed solution:

Provide something like TurnItIn's AI report. This could either be reported individually for each of the items submitted or done at one time for all submissions. Regarding discussion board posts, this could be provided automatically for each discussion board post, or all the posts in the discussion board could be submitted to TurnItIn as a single pdf document (student name & post submitted) that is then checked and the report generated - highlighting the text where AI generated text is suspected and providing a probability. For the essay question type on quizzes, this could be handled similarly. Either for each individual essay question, or all essay questions for a given quiz could be submitted as a single pdf (that identified student name, quiz, quiz question, and essay question content).

User role(s):

instructor,ta

[ModeratorPanda]

Thank you for sharing this idea with the Instructure Community!

With the release of the Announcements/Discussions Redesign, the Product Team reviewed some related feature proposals, and unfortunately, this request was identified as one that they would not be able to include in their current or future plans. While we appreciate your proposal, we also want to be transparent about the likelihood of something like this making it to production.

Thank you for collaborating, and we hope that you submit another idea in the future!