Generative artificial intelligence (gen AI) continues to transform teaching, learning and assessment across Australian higher education. This resource aims to help institutions address the risks generative artificial intelligence (gen AI) poses to learning assurance, while also supporting students to use these tools responsibly and ethically. It delivers examples of how principles – to guide institutions in developing an approach to gen AI and assessment – are being put into practice.

The resource assists institutions, learning and teaching leaders, academics and professional staff in navigating three main approaches that have emerged:

1. taking a program-wide approach to assessment reform (program here referring to ‘course of study’ as per the Threshold Standards)
2. assuring learning in every unit/subject
3. implementing a combination of these approaches.

Key findings

• Many students are becoming increasingly sophisticated in gen AI tool use, while workplaces integrate these technologies across disciplines.
• This situation creates a critical imperative for institutions to reconceptualise assessment, reflecting authentic professional practices that may legitimately incorporate gen AI where appropriate.
• Rather than investing primarily in detection mechanisms, institutions need to emphasise the redesign of assessment to capture authentic demonstrations of student capability and comprehension.
• Program-level assessment reform represents the most comprehensive and aligned response to the challenges and opportunities posed by gen AI.