Policy

Policy text, appeals, procurement and records, and what an institution has to be able to show. General guidance, not legal advice.

Updated October 27, 202619 stories

For administrators

Under FERPA, a Paper Sent to an AI Detector Is an Education Record

Once a school holds a student's submitted paper, that paper is an education record under FERPA. Sending it to an AI detector doesn't change that, because the vendor holds it on the school's behalf. The usual route around consent is the school official exception in 34 CFR 99.31: the vendor does work the school would otherwise do, stays under its direct control over education records and is bound by the redisclosure limit. Department of Education guidance from 2014 adds a fourth: meeting the school-official criteria in the annual FERPA notice.

Olive Staff & OliveOctober 27, 2026

For administrators
The Detection Paragraph Parent AI Letter Templates Leave Out
Explaining a school AI policy to parents takes 5 answers, in this order.
Olive Staff & OliveOctober 21, 2026
For administrators
When COPPA Reaches a K-12 AI Detector, It Binds the Vendor
COPPA binds an operator whose service is directed to children, or who has actual knowledge it collects personal information online from a child under 13.
Olive Staff & OliveOctober 20, 2026
For administrators
Four Clauses an AI Detector RFP Needs Before a Bid Can Be Scored
An AI detector RFP for a school district should turn four questions into contract requirements rather than evaluation criteria.
Olive Staff & OliveOctober 17, 2026
For administrators
Ten Questions for an AI Detection Vendor, Starting With Set Size
Ten questions separate a detection vendor that has measured its product from one that has only marketed it.
Olive Staff & OliveOctober 16, 2026
For administrators
Turnitin Publishes No Acceptable AI Percentage, So a Policy Should Not Name One
Turnitin publishes no acceptable AI percentage.
Olive Staff & OliveOctober 13, 2026
For administrators
Run a Detector Only Under Five Conditions, Never as Sole Evidence
Yes, if five conditions all hold.
Olive Staff & OliveOctober 12, 2026

For administrators
Write the Non-Native Writer Clause as a Corroboration Rule, Not a Carve-Out
In the 2023 Stanford study, seven detectors wrongly flagged human-written TOEFL essays at an average rate of 61.22 percent across 91 essays [1].
Olive Staff & OliveOctober 10, 2026
For administrators
No Published Study Located as of September 2026 Measures Detector Bias in Neurodivergent Writers: Write a Consultation Step Into the Policy
No published study located as of September 2026 measures how AI detectors treat autistic, ADHD or dyslexic writers.
Olive Staff & OliveOctober 9, 2026
For students
A Turnitin AI Flag Reaches the Instructor First; the Code Decides the Rest
A Turnitin AI writing percentage appears in the instructor's report view.
Olive Staff & OliveOctober 6, 2026
For administrators
Vanderbilt, BU, Arizona, Waterloo and Pittsburgh's Teaching Center Each Published a Page Switching Turnitin's AI Detector Off
Five pages, four institutional and one from a teaching center, say the Turnitin AI indicator is off.
Olive Staff & OliveOctober 6, 2026
For students
How to Appeal an AI Detection Accusation in Four Sections
An appeal against an AI detection accusation is a written document with four parts, and the detector score is not its spine.
Olive Staff & OliveOctober 5, 2026
For administrators
In Harris v. Adams, the School Had Corroborated the AI Flag Before It Disciplined
Of two AI detection rulings, only one gives its reasons on a record this page could read.
Olive Staff & OliveOctober 4, 2026

For administrators
Design an AI Detection Appeal Process in Six Parts
An AI detection appeal process needs six things written down by the integrity office before the first case.
Olive Staff & OliveOctober 3, 2026
For administrators
The Code Names the Standard and Says Who Carries the Burden
The standard of proof is whatever the institution's own code names.
Olive Staff & OliveOctober 2, 2026
For administrators
A Detector Score Alone Does Not Meet a Code's Standard of Proof
A school can act on a detector score alone, and some have.
Olive Staff & OliveOctober 1, 2026
For administrators
Write the AI Clause So a Detector Report Is Evidence, Not the Finding
An academic integrity policy's AI clause needs 4 parts.
Olive Staff & OliveSeptember 25, 2026
For administrators
Put Humanizers Under the Disclosure Clause, Not a Banned-Tools List
Yes, the policy should mention humanizers under disclosure, not in a list of banned tools.
Olive Staff & OliveSeptember 24, 2026
For administrators
The Five-Part Detector Clause to Add to a School AI Policy Template
TeachAI's sample school guidance takes a position on detection without setting out a procedure for running one.
Olive Staff & OliveSeptember 21, 2026

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AI detection in education: what a detector reads, what a flag is evidence of, and what a school does with one.

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The detection beat: how AI-text detectors work and where they fail, what the published studies measured, what Pangram, Turnitin and the rest say about themselves, and what a teacher, a student or a school does when a flag lands. The question underneath every piece is what a reading is evidence of and what it is not. It offers no way to prove who wrote a document, and no number that stands for a person.

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