Resources to help you navigate generative AI at McMaster as a student. If you’re ever unsure about what may or may not be permitted, ask your course instructor or supervisor.
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AI use varies by course, so check your syllabus or ask your instructor. Some programs and departments are also beginning to set their own policies/guidelines.
McMaster’s guidelines on generative AI use in teaching and learning, endorsed by the AI Advisory Committee and AI Expert Panel for Teaching and Learning.
How AI use fits within McMaster’s academic integrity policy.
Using translation and editing tools responsibly.
Learn how generative AI works, and explore it’s wider impact on learning, society, work, and the world around you.
An online module covering what generative AI is and how it may impact how we learn.
CMST 2AI: Generative Artificial Intelligence: Human and Societal Impacts is a second year online asynchronous undergraduate course open to all McMaster students will begin in the 2026-2027 academic year.
How to acknowledge and cite generative AI use in your written work, so that your instructor knows exactly what was and wasn’t AI-generated.
The library’s guide to citing generative AI in written work.
Generative AI is moving fast. Here’s a curated collection of resources and news to help you keep up.