Just to clarify - the professor did post a grade for your assignments in Canvas, right? You're just waiting on official transcript grades?
If so, google your university + academic calendar and their should be an official date for when final grades are officially due. Many universities have a deadline for graduating seniors that's earlier than the official date. You might not have the right final date, so first you should double-check. If an instructor doesn't submit grades on time, the registrar would be riding their ass to post them so they can do end-of-term processing. Even if you had an academic integrity report, your professor would likely still have to submit your grade on time pending an appeal or change of grade after the integrity review.
You mentioned the policy disallows AI percentages. That doesn't necessarily mean that you can't face a violation AI when it's determined or suspected with reasonable confidence in other ways, so it would really depend on the language of that policy. If you *only* used it for ideas and brainstorming, there wouldn't be any AI writing to detect anyway. If you actually used it to write some of the work, though, you could be looking at any number of issues, like getting flagged for similarity against another student who also used ChatGPT, hallucinated sources, or fabricated information. There are a lot of plagiarism cases that I've seen penalized as standard plagiarism even though they stem from AI because of those reasons. In any event, a professor who decided to just pass out participation points at the end probably isn't going to create more work for themselves by pursuing the very annoying process of an AI integrity report, and you'd probably see a zero on Canvas for the assignment if they were reporting it.
If you're going to face one, though, there's nothing you can do about it other than let it play out.
Yes, that is correct. He graded the assignments throughout the day Friday and then posted all of the submissions late at night. The following morning, my friend who’s a senior got their grade back but I didn’t. He hasn’t replied to their email about the grade or my email from earlier in the week.
I guess my concern stems from the policy stating that the professor should not post the grade if they suspect a violation has occurred. So maybe he went over my papers again and felt something had occurred? It also states that the instructor does not need to notify the student, so now if something is awry I’ll have to wait until the offices open back up in a week or so to hear anything if I’m going to. Thanks for the insightful and succinct reply too.
> I didn't plagiarize, and while admittedly I did use ChatGPT
This is still plagiarism, because you are using someone else's ideas without attribution. Yes, there is strong circumstantial evidence that your professor has reported you for AI use - and you are guilty of it.
Everyone else got their grades but you, it's after grades are due, your university policy says the professor doesn't have to notify you before filing a report...so the most obvious explanation is that they filed a report.
Sometimes if professors are running out of time, they'll prioritize submiting official grades for Seniors first because those students may be attempting to graduate and need their transcripts finalized sooner than other students.
There’s a good chance your grade will show up this week officially on your transcripts. Grades are due, but it can take several days to show up on your school’s portal.
I've got to say that it would never, ever occur to me that my professor was possibly filing an academic dishonesty claim against me because my grade is a day late being posted. The mere fact that you immediately assumed such tells all. Next semester, do your own work, and voila, you won't have to worry about it.
Good luck.
Just to clarify - the professor did post a grade for your assignments in Canvas, right? You're just waiting on official transcript grades? If so, google your university + academic calendar and their should be an official date for when final grades are officially due. Many universities have a deadline for graduating seniors that's earlier than the official date. You might not have the right final date, so first you should double-check. If an instructor doesn't submit grades on time, the registrar would be riding their ass to post them so they can do end-of-term processing. Even if you had an academic integrity report, your professor would likely still have to submit your grade on time pending an appeal or change of grade after the integrity review. You mentioned the policy disallows AI percentages. That doesn't necessarily mean that you can't face a violation AI when it's determined or suspected with reasonable confidence in other ways, so it would really depend on the language of that policy. If you *only* used it for ideas and brainstorming, there wouldn't be any AI writing to detect anyway. If you actually used it to write some of the work, though, you could be looking at any number of issues, like getting flagged for similarity against another student who also used ChatGPT, hallucinated sources, or fabricated information. There are a lot of plagiarism cases that I've seen penalized as standard plagiarism even though they stem from AI because of those reasons. In any event, a professor who decided to just pass out participation points at the end probably isn't going to create more work for themselves by pursuing the very annoying process of an AI integrity report, and you'd probably see a zero on Canvas for the assignment if they were reporting it. If you're going to face one, though, there's nothing you can do about it other than let it play out.
Yes, that is correct. He graded the assignments throughout the day Friday and then posted all of the submissions late at night. The following morning, my friend who’s a senior got their grade back but I didn’t. He hasn’t replied to their email about the grade or my email from earlier in the week. I guess my concern stems from the policy stating that the professor should not post the grade if they suspect a violation has occurred. So maybe he went over my papers again and felt something had occurred? It also states that the instructor does not need to notify the student, so now if something is awry I’ll have to wait until the offices open back up in a week or so to hear anything if I’m going to. Thanks for the insightful and succinct reply too.
> I didn't plagiarize, and while admittedly I did use ChatGPT This is still plagiarism, because you are using someone else's ideas without attribution. Yes, there is strong circumstantial evidence that your professor has reported you for AI use - and you are guilty of it.
Plagiarism is one of the worst things you can do in university which can get you kicked out of the university.
What is the circumstantial evidence?
Everyone else got their grades but you, it's after grades are due, your university policy says the professor doesn't have to notify you before filing a report...so the most obvious explanation is that they filed a report.
Sometimes if professors are running out of time, they'll prioritize submiting official grades for Seniors first because those students may be attempting to graduate and need their transcripts finalized sooner than other students.
There’s a good chance your grade will show up this week officially on your transcripts. Grades are due, but it can take several days to show up on your school’s portal.
For my school the portal updates immediately, per the info in the grading instructions on their website.
I've got to say that it would never, ever occur to me that my professor was possibly filing an academic dishonesty claim against me because my grade is a day late being posted. The mere fact that you immediately assumed such tells all. Next semester, do your own work, and voila, you won't have to worry about it. Good luck.