{"id":1573,"date":"2026-07-09T09:18:33","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T16:18:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/learn71.ca\/tech-tips\/?p=1573"},"modified":"2026-07-09T09:18:33","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T16:18:33","slug":"how-to-chatgpt-proof-your-assignments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/learn71.ca\/tech-tips\/2026\/07\/09\/how-to-chatgpt-proof-your-assignments\/","title":{"rendered":"How to ChatGPT Proof Your Assignments"},"content":{"rendered":"

I will readily admit to anyone that I love Artificial\u00a0Intelligence (AI) and\u00a0find it fascinating.\u00a0 AI is a very hot topic\u00a0and it is changing so fast it is hard to keep up! While ChatGPT is an amazing tool for us and our\u00a0students to use, there are some scary,\u00a0 more nefarious uses for it as well.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Please read on to find some tips for preventing your students from using AI\u200b\u00a0for cheating and a very important\u00a0tip about SnapChat AI from Safer Schools.\u200b<\/span><\/p>\n

I just finished watching a fabulous presentation by Ryan Orilio, a Director of Technology from New York and another presentation by George Couros.\u00a0 Here is what I learned:<\/span><\/p>\n

Using an AI detector is not a great way to discover if a student is using AI in their assignments.\u00a0 They have proven\u00a0 to be unreliable and prone to giving false results that could cause you to accuse an innocent student of cheating, while also placing their personal writing in a potentially unsafe place online. Still, most schools are not blocking ChatGPT-there are so many places to use AI available, students will just find another one.\u00a0\u00a0It seems like AI will not be going away so it is time for us to step up our game and learn to use it as the incredible\u00a0tool that it is.\u200b<\/span><\/p>\n

Here are some ways that Ryan Orilio talked about to “cheatproof” your assignments to prevent students from using ChatGPT and other AI tools to write them:<\/span><\/p>\n

\u200b1.\u00a0 Ask students to write about something deeply personal.\u00a0<\/strong>For example, have the students talk about a challenge they have faced or how a piece of writing relates to their own life.<\/p>\n

2.\u00a0 Ask students to write about current or local events.\u00a0<\/strong>The free version of ChatGPT does not have current knowledge and it is not designed to search for current events.\u00a0 You could ask students to compare current events to something that happened in the past.<\/p>\n

3.\u00a0 Do more writing in class.\u00a0<\/strong>Yes, it is more work for all but it works.<\/p>\n

4. Ask students to show or explain their work.\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0Even if they used AI to help, they would need to understand it,<\/p>\n

5. Have students hand in more than one draft.<\/strong><\/p>\n

6.\u00a0 Have students explain what they did and why? Why did they choose this topic?<\/strong><\/p>\n

7.\u00a0 Ask students to present some form of oral presentation.\u00a0<\/strong>Microsoft Flip, iMovie, or just recording an audio\u00a0recording with force them to read their presentation out loud and analyze it.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I will readily admit to anyone that I love Artificial\u00a0Intelligence (AI) and\u00a0find it fascinating.\u00a0 AI is a very hot topic\u00a0and it is changing so fast it is hard to keep up! While ChatGPT is an amazing tool for us and our\u00a0students to use, there are some scary,\u00a0 more nefarious uses for it as well.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Please read […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/learn71.ca\/tech-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/learn71.ca\/tech-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/learn71.ca\/tech-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learn71.ca\/tech-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learn71.ca\/tech-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1573"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/learn71.ca\/tech-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1575,"href":"https:\/\/learn71.ca\/tech-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1573\/revisions\/1575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/learn71.ca\/tech-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learn71.ca\/tech-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learn71.ca\/tech-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}