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Can Our Staff Put Student Work Into an AI Tool?
Not into a personal account. A marker who pastes a chapter into their own chatbot has disclosed a student’s personal data to a company the institution has no contract with — and under Article 28(10) that company is a controller in its own right, not your processor.
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How to Roll Out an AI Writing Platform Across a University After the Pilot (2026)
A pilot that succeeded does not become a rollout by being approved. Ten steps with the owner and artefact for each — including the EU procurement threshold that a departmental contract sits under and an institutional one usually does not.
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Can a University Rely on Student Consent to Deploy an AI Writing Tool?
Almost never, and the reason is in Recital 43. The EDPB states that a public authority is unlikely to be able to rely on consent at all — and Article 6(1) then removes legitimate interests from public bodies acting in their public task. Which leaves one basis standing.
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Best AI Writing Platforms for Universities in 2026: Ranked on What They Do With Your Text
Writing support is a different purchase from detection, and it should be scored on different criteria. Comparison table first, ranked on text handling and whether the vendor markets anything that works against your own policy.
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iThenticate vs Turnitin Similarity for Thesis Screening: Which Corpus Are You Actually Buying?
On the vendor’s own pages one product matches against student submissions and the other against subscription scholarly content. A thesis is both kinds of document — so a graduate school running only one has a named blind spot.
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How to Set Up SSO and LMS Integration for a University Platform (2026)
Eight steps with named owners and artefacts — and the point most rollouts miss: choosing which LTI Advantage services to enable is a data-minimisation decision, not a technical one, and it belongs in the DPIA.
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How to Build an AI Literacy Curriculum — and Why the EU AI Act Makes It an Obligation
Article 4 of the EU AI Act places an AI literacy duty on deployers — and a university running AI systems is a deployer. Nine steps from mandate to evidence, with the owner and artefact for each, and the staff-side obligation most plans forget.
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Is Student Work Used to Train AI Models? What to Establish Before You Sign
Retention in a matching corpus and use as training data are two different permissions, and most institutional contracts grant only the first while readers assume they have refused both. Four clauses to establish, and who actually holds the rights.
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What Is the Difference Between Plagiarism Detection and AI Detection?
One produces a reviewable artefact — the matched source, which a panel can open. The other produces a probability with nothing behind it to examine. That difference determines what your policy can lawfully do with each output.
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The Writing Centre Waiting List You Cannot Staff Your Way Out Of
Writing centre demand is seasonal, concentrated and structurally impossible to staff at peak. The fix is not more appointments — it is moving the work that does not need a human out of the queue.