The AI Assessment Scale (AIAS) provides clear guidelines across five levels, ranging from no AI use to full AI integration, so students know exactly what is expected of them in each assessment. This structure ensures that students use AI ethically and effectively to support their learning while maintaining academic integrity. This page provides guidance on Level 4: Full AI.
Level 4: Full AI
‘AI may be used to complete any elements of the task, with students directing AI to achieve the assessment goals. Assessments at this level may also require engagement with AI to achieve goals and solve problems.’
You may use AI extensively throughout your work either as you wish, or as specifically directed in your assessment. Focus on directing AI to achieve your goals while demonstrating your critical thinking.
Students can think of it as
“I can use AI as a creative and strategic tool (e.g., Copilot/Groupmate) throughout, to help with writing, visuals, code, etc., but I am the group leader and need to show how I made the strategic decisions about what was included in the final product.”
What’s allowed?
- GenAI use up to and including AIAS Level 3
- Use of GenAI for content generation across all phases of the assessment
- Strategic multimodal use (e.g., text, visuals, code, data)
What’s required?
- Students need to provide reflective commentary on how GenAI-output was used, questioned, and edited. This could include:
- a log of student prompts to the GenAI where evaluation/refined prompting provides insight into students’ critical thinking, i.e., with respect to AI accuracy, bias, etc.
- a short paragraph explaining AI-use and evaluation.
What’s not allowed?
- Accepting AI outputs without checking them for errors or bias
- Submitting mostly AI-generated content without evaluation or critique
- Over-reliance on AI that does not reflect how the student led the process
Why/Rationale
This equips students to use AI as a professional tool. It emphasises strategic, effective use that is aligned with real-world tasks.
Examples
Lab Reports
Students use GenAI to help generate graphs and analyse results, but they double-check the calculations, add their interpretation, and critique the method. Their report explains how they directed and worked together with AI.
Essays & Written Pieces
Students ask GenAI to generate multiple viewpoints or summaries. They compare them, select the best ideas, and add their own perspective. Their final piece includes citations and a short explanation of how AI was used.
Presentations
Students create slides using AI design tools, generate initial content for their speech, and then refine it to suit their tone and audience. They check facts and add their own insights, including a statement of how AI was used.
Other Projects
Students use AI to create audio, video, or visual materials. Students remix these, explain their creative choices, and describe how they led the overall concept.
What is GenAI?
GenAI is technology that can create new content like text, images, or code, based on patterns it has learned from large amounts of data. GenAI technology includes tools like ChatGPT, Gemini, Copilot, and Claude. These are also called Large Language Models (LLMs) and provide chat-like services to users, in the style of a conversation. There are other tools which students might use, like those which convert text-to-images (e.g. Midjourney, DALLE) and those which convert text-to-video (e.g. Sora, Veo 3).