At UniSC, our focus is on assured learning: creating opportunities for students to demonstrate the knowledge, skills and judgement they will need in their future careers. As artificial intelligence becomes part of everyday learning and work, our approach is not centred on catching students cheating, it's about catching students learning. 

Assessment design is critical. Rather than focusing on whether an assessment is secure through restrictions, surveillance, or attempts to eliminate every possible source of assistance, we focus on whether it enables educators to make confident evaluative judgements about student achievement. 

This means designing authentic assessments that provide meaningful evidence of learning and capabilities but with authentication of learner identity, and assessment conditions that are applicable to the discipline and associated careers, and that also rely on the learner's sophistication of knowledge and skills.

“Our approach to assured learning is guided by two key questions: who completed the work and under what conditions was the work completed?” says Pro Vice-Chancellor (Education) Professor Maree Dinan-Thompson.

“), “These principles of authentication and verification help ensure that assessment outcomes are credible and trustworthy to the institution, their professions and the public."

To support this, UniSC uses authorship statements as part of its assessment framework. Rather than focusing on compliance, authorship statements guide student expectations about learning, transparency and responsible use of technologies, including artificial intelligence (AI). 

The Assured Learning Authorship Statement was co-designed with students and as a result is very clear in outlining student agency and responsibility.

AI is a tool. UniSC adopts a human-centred approach to the responsible and critical use of AI. We will build AI adaptive capabilities, ethical judgement and digital literacies across our programs, but the authorship remains with the humans – our students and our staff.

UniSC's assured learning approach upholds our social licence and public trust. t Students, employers, professions and the wider community of UniSC trust  that degree integrity is upheld and that our graduates have the adaptive capabilities with educational technologies to make a better tomorrow.