Overview

The following styles have been developed to inform students that the use of GenAI is permitted, but limited to specific use cases, either at the course level or as part of a specific assignment.

What You Need to Do

Review the style options and select which one works best for your course.
Copy the code provided (located directly below each style).
Go to the page of the Canvas course you wish to modify.
Select the Edit button, and then select the HTML editor (the </> button beneath the RCE window).
Paste the code.
After pasting the code, switch back to the RCE by selecting the </> button again to view the result of your code.
Review the exemplar text provided and modify as needed.
- This language lists a wide variety of GenAI activities. It is important that you review the language and select what applies to your pedagogical needs.
- Determine whether there are any special uses of GenAI that you would like to permit. Note those use cases in the space provided.
  - If there are no special use cases, delete the associated header and bullet provided.
- For this use case, you must delete any actions or activities that are not permitted from the exemplar text and list them under the Not Permitted header.
- Likewise, if you would like to specify any other GenAI uses that are not permitted that the exemplar text does not mention, add those in this space as well.
Finally, provide any additional detail, instructions, and support needed for students to be successful in the assignment and meet your expectations for level of GenAI use.

Note, these GenAI icons are intended to be used with the descriptive header text and one of the suggested styles included in this resource. Using the GenAI icons on their own requires the use alt text. If you opt to use the GenAI Use is Limited icon in an alternate manner, please make sure to add the descriptive text (e.g., GenAI Use is Limited) when uploading the image in Canvas in the Alt text field provided.

Basic Design

GenAI Use Is Limited

You may responsibly use GenAI within the following guidelines:

Research and Data Activities

Brainstorm: You may use GenAI to brainstorm and generate ideas.
Study Support: You may use GenAI to explain concepts, break down or summarize notes, suggest study strategies, and self-test.
Research: You may use GenAI to research, refine research questions, find key words, summarize articles, and suggest follow-up questions.
Analyze Data: You may use GenAI to generate conclusions based on analysis of a dataset.
Code: You may use GenAI to suggest functions or generate, explain, or debug code.

Text Activities

Spelling and Grammar: You may use GenAI to correct spelling and grammar.
Outline and Format: You may use GenAI to create an outline for a paper or presentation, and/or to format presentation slides.
Draft: You may use GenAI to draft your initial work.
Enhance or Revise: You may use GenAI to help you refine text that you have written.

Multimedia and Creative Activities

Creative Expression: You may use GenAI to generate ideas, plot, or characters, and for creative expression, such as creating poems or song lyrics, or simulating writing styles.
Create Multimedia: You may use GenAI to generate images, audio, or video.

Special Use

Special Use: You may use GenAI to [specify use].

Not Permitted

[Instructor specify what is not permitted or remove]

Ethical GenAI Use

You should only use GenAI ethically, which includes using a safe, secure, humane, transparent, and environmentally friendly approach to GenAI.

Citing GenAI

You must provide attribution for any GenAI-generated material that you quote, paraphrase, or incorporate into your own work. Please refer to these Generative AI Citation Guidelines and Penn State's Generative AI Library Guide for further guidance

Basic Design Code to Copy

<div style="margin: 1rem; padding: 1rem 1rem 2rem 2rem; border: 3px solid #ffd100; border-radius: 1.25rem; background: #ffffff; font-size: 1rem;">
    <h2><img role="presentation" src="https://lmstools.ais.psu.edu/psuicons/ai/limited%20icon.png" alt="" width="90" height="105"/> GenAI Use Is Limited</h2>
    <p>You may responsibly use GenAI within the following guidelines:</p>
    
    <h3>Research and Data Activities</h3>
    <ul>
        <li><strong>Brainstorm:</strong> You may use GenAI to brainstorm and generate ideas.</li>
        <li><strong>Study Support:</strong> You may use GenAI to explain concepts, break down or summarize notes, suggest study strategies, and self-test.</li>
        <li><strong>Research:</strong> You may use GenAI to research, refine research questions, find key words, summarize articles, and suggest follow-up questions.</li>
        <li><strong>Analyze Data:</strong> You may use GenAI to generate conclusions based on analysis of a dataset.</li>
        <li><strong>Code:</strong> You may use GenAI to suggest functions or generate, explain, or debug code.</li>
    </ul>
    <h3>Text Activities</h3>
    <ul>
        <li><strong>Spelling and Grammar:</strong> You may use GenAI to correct spelling and grammar.</li>
        <li><strong>Outline and Format: </strong>You may use GenAI to create an outline for a paper or presentation, and/or to format presentation slides.</li>
        <li><strong>Draft:</strong> You may use GenAI to draft your initial work.</li>
        <li><strong>Enhance or Revise Original Work:</strong> You may use GenAI to help you refine text that you have written.</li>
    </ul>
    <h3>Multimedia and Creative Activities</h3>
    <ul>
        <li><strong>Creative Expression:</strong> You may use GenAI to generate ideas, plot, or characters, and for creative expression, such as creating poems or song lyrics, or simulating writing styles.</li>
        <li><strong>Create Multimedia:</strong> You may use GenAI to generate images, audio, or video.</li>
    </ul>
    <h3>Special Use</h3>
    <ul>
        <li><strong>Special Use:</strong> You may use GenAI to<span style="background-color: #f9f2ce;"> [specify use].</span></li>
    </ul>
    <p>&nbsp;</p>
    <h3><span style="background-color: #fbeeb8;">Not Permitted</span></h3>
    <ul>
        <li><span style="background-color: #fbeeb8;">[Instructor specify what is not permitted or remove]</span></li>
    </ul>
    <hr />
    <h3>Ethical GenAI Use</h3>
    <p>You should only use GenAI ethically, which includes using a safe, secure, humane, transparent, and environmentally friendly approach to GenAI.</p>
    <h3>Citing GenAI</h3>
    <p>You must provide attribution for any GenAI-generated material that you quote, paraphrase, or incorporate into your own work. Please refer to these <a class="inline_disabled" href="https://guides.libraries.psu.edu/GenAI/citing" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Generative AI Citation Guidelines</a> and <a class="inline_disabled" href="https://guides.libraries.psu.edu/c.php?g=1338692&amp;p=9866353" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Penn State's Generative AI Library Guide</a> for further guidance.</p>
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With Color Background

GenAI Use Is Limited

You may responsibly use GenAI within the following guidelines:

Research and Data Activities

Brainstorm: You may use GenAI to brainstorm and generate ideas.
Study Support: You may use GenAI to explain concepts, break down or summarize notes, suggest study strategies, and self-test.
Research: You may use GenAI to research, refine research questions, find key words, summarize articles, and suggest follow-up questions.
Analyze Data: You may use GenAI to generate conclusions based on analysis of a dataset.
Code: You may use GenAI to suggest functions or generate, explain, or debug code.

Text Activities

Spelling and Grammar: You may use GenAI to correct spelling and grammar.
Outline and Format: You may use GenAI to create an outline for a paper or presentation, and/or to format presentation slides.
Draft: You may use GenAI to draft your initial work.
Enhance or Revise Original Work: You may use GenAI to help you refine text that you have written.

Multimedia and Creative Activities

Creative Expression: You may use GenAI to generate ideas, plot, or characters, and for creative expression, such as creating poems or song lyrics, or simulating writing styles.
Create Multimedia: You may use GenAI to generate images, audio, or video.

Special Use

Special Use: You may use GenAI to [specify use].

Not Permitted

[Instructor specify what is not permitted or remove]

Ethical GenAI Use

You should only use GenAI ethically, which includes using a safe, secure, humane, transparent, and environmentally friendly approach to GenAI.

Citing GenAI

You must provide attribution for any GenAI-generated material that you quote, paraphrase, or incorporate into your own work. Please refer to these Generative AI Citation Guidelines and Penn State's Generative AI Library Guide for further guidance.

With Color Background Code to Copy

<div style="margin: 1rem; padding: 1rem 1rem 2rem 2rem; border: 3px solid #ffd100; border-radius: 1.25rem; background: #FDfbf5; font-size: 1rem;">
    <h2><img role="presentation" src="https://lmstools.ais.psu.edu/psuicons/ai/limited%20icon.png" alt="" width="90" height="105"/> GenAI Use Is Limited</h2>
    <p>You may responsibly use GenAI within the following guidelines:</p>
    
    <h3>Research and Data Activities</h3>
    <ul>
        <li><strong>Brainstorm:</strong> You may use GenAI to brainstorm and generate ideas.</li>
        <li><strong>Study Support:</strong> You may use GenAI to explain concepts, break down or summarize notes, suggest study strategies, and self-test.</li>
        <li><strong>Research:</strong> You may use GenAI to research, refine research questions, find key words, summarize articles, and suggest follow-up questions.</li>
        <li><strong>Analyze Data:</strong> You may use GenAI to generate conclusions based on analysis of a dataset.</li>
        <li><strong>Code:</strong> You may use GenAI to suggest functions or generate, explain, or debug code.</li>
    </ul>
    <h3>Text Activities</h3>
    <ul>
        <li><strong>Spelling and Grammar:</strong> You may use GenAI to correct spelling and grammar.</li>
        <li><strong>Outline and Format: </strong>You may use GenAI to create an outline for a paper or presentation, and/or to format presentation slides.</li>
        <li><strong>Draft:</strong> You may use GenAI to draft your initial work.</li>
        <li><strong>Enhance or Revise Original Work:</strong> You may use GenAI to help you refine text that you have written.</li>
    </ul>
    <h3>Multimedia and Creative Activities</h3>
    <ul>
        <li><strong>Creative Expression:</strong> You may use GenAI to generate ideas, plot, or characters, and for creative expression, such as creating poems or song lyrics, or simulating writing styles.</li>
        <li><strong>Create Multimedia:</strong> You may use GenAI to generate images, audio, or video.</li>
    </ul>
    <h3>Special Use</h3>
    <ul>
        <li><strong>Special Use:</strong> You may use GenAI to<span style="background-color: #f9f2ce;"> [specify use].</span></li>
    </ul>
    <p>&nbsp;</p>
    <h3><span style="background-color: #fbeeb8;">Not Permitted</span></h3>
    <ul>
        <li><span style="background-color: #fbeeb8;">[Instructor specify what is not permitted or remove]</span></li>
    </ul>
    <hr />
    <h3>Ethical GenAI Use</h3>
    <p>You should only use GenAI ethically, which includes using a safe, secure, humane, transparent, and environmentally friendly approach to GenAI.</p>
    <h3>Citing GenAI</h3>
    <p>You must provide attribution for any GenAI-generated material that you quote, paraphrase, or incorporate into your own work. Please refer to these <a class="inline_disabled" href="https://guides.libraries.psu.edu/GenAI/citing" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Generative AI Citation Guidelines</a> and <a class="inline_disabled" href="https://guides.libraries.psu.edu/c.php?g=1338692&amp;p=9866353" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Penn State's Generative AI Library Guide</a> for further guidance.</p>
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With Expandable Section

GenAI Use Is Limited

GenAI Use Guidance

You may responsibly use GenAI within the following guidelines:

Research and Data Activities

Brainstorm: You may use GenAI to brainstorm and generate ideas.
Study Support: You may use GenAI to explain concepts, break down or summarize notes, suggest study strategies, and self-test.
Research: You may use GenAI to research, refine research questions, find key words, summarize articles, and suggest follow-up questions.
Analyze Data: You may use GenAI to generate conclusions based on analysis of a dataset.
Code: You may use GenAI to suggest functions or generate, explain, or debug code.

Text Activities

Spelling and Grammar: You may use GenAI to correct spelling and grammar.
Outline and Format: You may use GenAI to create an outline for a paper or presentation, and/or to format presentation slides.
Draft: You may use GenAI to draft your initial work.
Enhance or Revise Original Work: You may use GenAI to help you refine text that you have written.

Multimedia and Creative Activities

Creative Expression: You may use GenAI to generate ideas, plot, or characters, and for creative expression, such as creating poems or song lyrics, or simulating writing styles.
Create Multimedia: You may use GenAI to generate images, audio, or video.

Special Use

Special Use: You may use GenAI to [specify use].

Not Permitted

[Instructor specify what is not permitted or remove]

Ethical GenAI Use

You should only use GenAI ethically, which includes using a safe, secure, humane, transparent, and environmentally friendly approach to GenAI.

Citing GenAI

You must provide attribution for any GenAI-generated material that you quote, paraphrase, or incorporate into your own work. Please refer to these Generative AI Citation Guidelines and Penn State's Generative AI Library Guide for further guidance.

With Expandable Section Code to Copy

<div style="margin: 1rem; padding: .3rem 1rem .5rem 1rem; border: 3px solid #ffd100; border-radius: 1.25rem; background: #ffffff; font-size: 1rem;">
    <h2><img role="presentation" src="https://lmstools.ais.psu.edu/psuicons/ai/limited%20icon.png" alt="" width="90" height="105"/> GenAI Use Is Limited</h2>
    <details style="cursor: pointer;">
        <summary style="font-size: 120%;">GenAI Use Guidance</summary>
        <p>You may responsibly use GenAI within the following guidelines:</p>
       
        <h3>Research and Data Activities</h3>
        <ul>
            <li><strong>Brainstorm:</strong> You may use GenAI to brainstorm and generate ideas.</li>
            <li><strong>Study Support:</strong> You may use GenAI to explain concepts, break down or summarize notes, suggest study strategies, and self-test.</li>
            <li><strong>Research:</strong> You may use GenAI to research, refine research questions, find key words, summarize articles, and suggest follow-up questions.</li>
            <li><strong>Analyze Data:</strong> You may use GenAI to generate conclusions based on analysis of a dataset.</li>
            <li><strong>Code:</strong> You may use GenAI to suggest functions or generate, explain, or debug code.</li>
        </ul>
        <h3>Text Activities</h3>
        <ul>
            <li><strong>Spelling and Grammar:</strong> You may use GenAI to correct spelling and grammar.</li>
            <li><strong>Outline and Format: </strong>You may use GenAI to create an outline for a paper or presentation, and/or to format presentation slides.</li>
            <li><strong>Draft:</strong> You may use GenAI to draft your initial work.</li>
            <li><strong>Enhance or Revise Original Work:</strong> You may use GenAI to help you refine text that you have written.</li>
        </ul>
        <h3>Multimedia and Creative Activities</h3>
        <ul>
            <li><strong>Creative Expression:</strong> You may use GenAI to generate ideas, plot, or characters, and for creative expression, such as creating poems or song lyrics, or simulating writing styles.</li>
            <li><strong>Create Multimedia:</strong> You may use GenAI to generate images, audio, or video.</li>
        </ul>
        <h3>Special Use</h3>
        <ul>
            <li><strong>Special Use:</strong> You may use GenAI to<span style="background-color: #f9f2ce;"> [specify use].</span></li>
        </ul>
        <p>&nbsp;</p>
        <h3><span style="background-color: #fbeeb8;">Not Permitted</span></h3>
        <ul>
            <li><span style="background-color: #fbeeb8;">[Instructor specify what is not permitted or remove]</span></li>
        </ul>
        <hr />
        <h3>Ethical GenAI Use</h3>
        <p>You should only use GenAI ethically, which includes using a safe, secure, humane, transparent, and environmentally friendly approach to GenAI.</p>
        <h3>Citing GenAI</h3>
        <p>You must provide attribution for any GenAI-generated material that you quote, paraphrase, or incorporate into your own work. Please refer to these <a class="inline_disabled" href="https://guides.libraries.psu.edu/GenAI/citing" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Generative AI Citation Guidelines</a> and <a class="inline_disabled" href="https://guides.libraries.psu.edu/c.php?g=1338692&amp;p=9866353" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Penn State's Generative AI Library Guide</a> for further guidance.</p>
    </details>
</div>

With Color and Expandable Section

GenAI Use Is Limited

GenAI Use Guidance

You may responsibly use GenAI within the following guidelines:

Research and Data Activities

Brainstorm: You may use GenAI to brainstorm and generate ideas.
Study Support: You may use GenAI to explain concepts, break down or summarize notes, suggest study strategies, and self-test.
Research: You may use GenAI to research, refine research questions, find key words, summarize articles, and suggest follow-up questions.
Analyze Data: You may use GenAI to generate conclusions based on analysis of a dataset.
Code: You may use GenAI to suggest functions or generate, explain, or debug code.

Text Activities

Spelling and Grammar: You may use GenAI to correct spelling and grammar.
Outline and Format: You may use GenAI to create an outline for a paper or presentation, and/or to format presentation slides.
Draft: You may use GenAI to draft your initial work.
Enhance or Revise Original Work: You may use GenAI to help you refine text that you have written.

Multimedia and Creative Activities

Creative Expression: You may use GenAI to generate ideas, plot, or characters, and for creative expression, such as creating poems or song lyrics, or simulating writing styles.
Create Multimedia: You may use GenAI to generate images, audio, or video.

Special Use

Special Use: You may use GenAI to [specify use].

Not Permitted

[Instructor specify what is not permitted or remove]

Ethical GenAI Use

You should only use GenAI ethically, which includes using a safe, secure, humane, transparent, and environmentally friendly approach to GenAI.

Citing GenAI

You must provide attribution for any GenAI-generated material that you quote, paraphrase, or incorporate into your own work. Please refer to these Generative AI Citation Guidelines and Penn State's Generative AI Library Guide for further guidance.

With Color and Expandable Section Code to Copy

<div style="margin: 1rem; padding: .3rem 1rem .5rem 1rem; border: 3px solid #ffd100; border-radius: 1.25rem; background: #FDfbf5; font-size: 1rem;">
    <h2><img role="presentation" src="https://lmstools.ais.psu.edu/psuicons/ai/limited%20icon.png" alt="" width="90" height="105"/> GenAI Use Is Limited</h2>
    <details style="cursor: pointer;">
        <summary style="font-size: 120%;">GenAI Use Guidance</summary>
        <p>You may responsibly use GenAI within the following guidelines:</p>
        
        <h3>Research and Data Activities</h3>
        <ul>
            <li><strong>Brainstorm:</strong> You may use GenAI to brainstorm and generate ideas.</li>
            <li><strong>Study Support:</strong> You may use GenAI to explain concepts, break down or summarize notes, suggest study strategies, and self-test.</li>
            <li><strong>Research:</strong> You may use GenAI to research, refine research questions, find key words, summarize articles, and suggest follow-up questions.</li>
            <li><strong>Analyze Data:</strong> You may use GenAI to generate conclusions based on analysis of a dataset.</li>
            <li><strong>Code:</strong> You may use GenAI to suggest functions or generate, explain, or debug code.</li>
        </ul>
        <h3>Text Activities</h3>
        <ul>
            <li><strong>Spelling and Grammar:</strong> You may use GenAI to correct spelling and grammar.</li>
            <li><strong>Outline and Format: </strong>You may use GenAI to create an outline for a paper or presentation, and/or to format presentation slides.</li>
            <li><strong>Draft:</strong> You may use GenAI to draft your initial work.</li>
            <li><strong>Enhance or Revise Original Work:</strong> You may use GenAI to help you refine text that you have written.</li>
        </ul>
        <h3>Multimedia and Creative Activities</h3>
        <ul>
            <li><strong>Creative Expression:</strong> You may use GenAI to generate ideas, plot, or characters, and for creative expression, such as creating poems or song lyrics, or simulating writing styles.</li>
            <li><strong>Create Multimedia:</strong> You may use GenAI to generate images, audio, or video.</li>
        </ul>
        <h3>Special Use</h3>
        <ul>
            <li><strong>Special Use:</strong> You may use GenAI to<span style="background-color: #f9f2ce;"> [specify use].</span></li>
        </ul>
        <p>&nbsp;</p>
        <h3><span style="background-color: #fbeeb8;">Not Permitted</span></h3>
        <ul>
            <li><span style="background-color: #fbeeb8;">[Instructor specify what is not permitted or remove]</span></li>
        </ul>
        <hr />
        <h3>Ethical GenAI Use</h3>
        <p>You should only use GenAI ethically, which includes using a safe, secure, humane, transparent, and environmentally friendly approach to GenAI.</p>
        <h3>Citing GenAI</h3>
        <p>You must provide attribution for any GenAI-generated material that you quote, paraphrase, or incorporate into your own work. Please refer to these <a class="inline_disabled" href="https://guides.libraries.psu.edu/GenAI/citing" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Generative AI Citation Guidelines</a> and <a class="inline_disabled" href="https://guides.libraries.psu.edu/c.php?g=1338692&amp;p=9866353" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Penn State's Generative AI Library Guide</a> for further guidance.</p>
        </details>
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