Academic Integrity & Responsible AI Use

When an assignment calls for the student’s own response, the submitted work must reflect the student’s own thinking and effort. Copying AI output, another person’s work, or source material without appropriate attribution is not acceptable.

• Asking for an explanation, hint, example, vocabulary help, or study question.
• Using Moriah to practice a similar problem before attempting the assigned one.
• Receiving feedback on organization, clarity, grammar, or reasoning while preserving student authorship.
• Using AI to identify questions that should be verified in reliable sources.

• Having AI produce the final answer for work designated as independent.
• Submitting AI-generated writing as the student’s own without disclosure when disclosure is required.
• Using AI during a closed-resource quiz, test, or assessment when the parent or assignment prohibits it.
• Fabricating sources, quotations, experiment results, reading completion, or field-learning evidence.

Students should verify important AI-generated claims using assigned texts, primary sources, reputable references, calculations, observation, or parent-approved research. Citations must point to sources that actually exist and support the claim.

The parent or guardian may set stricter assignment rules than this baseline. An assignment may be paper-only, digital-only, hybrid, open-AI, limited-AI, or no-AI. The assignment-specific rule controls.

When misuse occurs, Virtueward’s preferred educational response is to identify what happened, require the learner to redo or explain the work appropriately, and teach the difference between assistance and substitution. Parents retain final authority over consequences and grading.