Is using Grammarly cheating?
Students and faculty grapple with AI and academic integrity Marley Stevens had no idea that using Grammarly could put her on academic probation. A student at the University of Georgia North, where Grammarly is provided for free to all students, Stevens had submitted a paper for a class on criminal justice when she received an email notifying her of a zero grade. “I thought he had sent the email to the wrong person because I worked super hard on my paper,” Stevens said in an interview with NewsNation in March. She is now expected to be on probation until February 2025. I came across this story after I saw a similar case on a MacEwan Facebook group, where a student had been accused of using AI in their first-year biology class (but...
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