AI Policy

The rule behind this page

This policy is written to comply with Florida’s new rule on AI at the state’s colleges, State Board of Education Rule 6A-14.0719 (opens in a new tab). The Board approved the rule on September 16, 2026, and it takes effect 20 days after it’s filed with the Department of State. Under paragraph (2)(c), each college’s policy must bar students from using AI on a graded assignment or assessment “unless explicitly permitted to do so by the instructor.” This page is that explicit permission for my courses. Each college adopts its own policy under the rule, and where your college’s policy says something this page doesn’t, the college’s policy governs.

What I permit

I do more than allow AI in these courses: I build it into them. Most activities give you Suggested AI Prompts and ask you to share one of your AI conversations. Some have you work through a simulator in which an AI plays a client, a judge, or opposing counsel. You may use AI on any part of an activity or a project. When an activity asks for a link to one of your AI conversations, include it with a sentence or two on what the chat shows and why you chose it.

The point is to learn how to guide AI, use it, and verify what it gives you. You learn that alongside the law, and my Teaching Philosophy explains why the courses work this way.

Who your posts are for

Permission to use AI doesn’t change who your posts are for. They’re for your classmates, not only for me. Post in your own language and your own voice, and write the post you’d want to read. A post like that is hard to paste out of a chatbot, and it’s the one your classmates learn from. How activities work says more.

The exceptions: Introduce Yourself and the Midterm Journal

Your Introduce Yourself post is you, meeting your classmates. Don’t use AI on any part of it.

The Midterm Journal is your own thinking, start to finish. Don’t use AI to write any of it. The journal asks how your learning is going, and you’re the only one who knows.

If you’d rather not use AI

You don’t have to use AI. A few students have told me they would rather not, and that’s fine. Work through each activity as well as you can without it. Some activities, like the simulators, are built around a conversation with an AI, so do what you can of them another way.

Then say so in your post. Tell your classmates that you worked without AI, why, if you want to share your reasons, and how you did the activity instead. That part matters most. Your classmates are the audience, and some of them will want to see that perspective.

How I use AI

I never use AI on your work. I don’t put your posts, replies, journal entries, or projects into an AI tool for any reason, grading and feedback included. I do use AI to build this site, and the About page says how.

Last updated October 2, 2026.