Florida Atlantic University.

Detection status: Turnitin AI writing detection announced for Canvas assignments in 2023 and trained on in 2024; FAU's current Turnitin page names only similarity checking; Honorlock proctoring on a departmental license
Office in these sources: Dean of Students Office · Student Services Building (SS #8), Room 222, 777 Glades Road, Boca Raton, FL 33431-0991 · 561-297-3542 · no central office email is published on the office's contact page, which lists individual staff addresses only · fau.edu/dean — Academic Integrity
Ombuds or advocacy office: Office of the Ombuds — FAU describes it as “a resource available to support students, faculty, staff, and the university community by providing confidential assistance in resolving issues, concerns, or disputes” and states “We serve as a neutral third party.” The same office publishes a limit that bears directly on a live case: among the things the Ombuds cannot do, FAU lists “Engage in matters that are undergoing formal process.” Dr. Angella J. Wint · Bldg 03/Wimberly Library, Room 156B, 777 Glades Road, Boca Raton, FL 33431 · (561) 297-3693 · ombuds@fau.edu · by appointment only · fau.edu/ombuds — Office of the Ombuds
Sources last checked: Aug 28, 2026

Reproduced from the institution's own pages quoted below — potentially relevant official sources, not a determination of which one governs any case.

FAU's published sources on AI detection and academic integrity, quoted and linked below. FAU's documents sit in layers: University Regulation 4.001, the Code of Academic Integrity, amended 08-13-2024, which is the binding document and which names artificial intelligence in its own definitions of cheating and plagiarism; the Dean of Students Office's academic-integrity resources and instructor templates built on it; the Office of Information Technology's Canvas service pages, which describe the tools; and the Faculty AI Hub, which asks instructors to set course-level AI rules in their syllabi, so a syllabus may add rules the regulation does not. These are potentially relevant official sources, not a determination of which one governs any case; confirm applicability with the institution. Any dates are quoted from the sources, not a deadline calculation performed for you.

01Detection status

Documented in 2023 and 2024; the current service page does not repeat it

FAU's Office of Information Technology announced the Turnitin AI writing indicator on its Instructional Technologies blog (post dated April 3, 2023; retrieved Aug 26, 2026):

"Starting today, Turnitin assignments include a new AI writing detection feature in their gamut of sources for generating similarity reports. Now, when a student submits a paper to Turnitin, the similarity report will show a separate summary and percentage indicating how much of the document may have been written by AI writing tools such as ChatGPT." "Within the report, find the AI indicator and click on it to view details about the parts of the document that may have been generated with an AI tool."

Source: Turnitin Adds AI Detection This Week — Instructional Technologies, FAU OIT.

Who sees the output, in FAU's own words

The clearest first-party statement about who reviews a flagged paper is an OIT training session, held on FAU's own Instructional Technologies calendar (event dated Monday, April 29, 2024; retrieved Aug 26, 2026):

"What happens after the AI indicator has flagged a paper as potentially containing generative AI content? This session is for those who may be reviewing student papers that have been flagged for AI, including student conduct administrators and instructors." "How to thoughtfully conduct a review of a paper flagged by the Turnitin AI indicator"

Source: Training with the Trainer: TurnItIn AI Indicator — FAU OIT, LibCal. Registration on that page is closed and the session is past; it is quoted here because it is FAU's own description of who reviews a flagged paper, not as a current offering.

What FAU's current Turnitin page says, and does not say

FAU's live OIT service page for Turnitin describes the tool without naming AI writing detection (no on-page date displayed; retrieved Aug 26, 2026):

"Turnitin is a plagiarism prevention tool available for assignments submitted through Canvas." "Turnitin Feedback Studio provides source matches and instructor feedback directly on students assignments, or in a conveniently formatted downloadable report." "Turnitin Draft Coach is a drafting tool used to generate similarity and grammar reports for student/faculty papers. It does not submit content to the Turnitin Repository and is meant purely as a drafting tool to improve the quality of official Turnitin assignment submissions."

Source: Turnitin — FAU OIT Canvas. The instructor and student resources it links are Turnitin's own similarity-report guides; the AI writing report is not among them.

These two findings are reproduced side by side rather than reconciled. FAU has published that the AI writing indicator was switched on in its Canvas Turnitin assignments and that student conduct administrators and instructors were trained to review papers it flags. FAU's current service page for the same tool describes similarity checking and drafting only. No FAU page located in this review states that the AI indicator was later disabled, and no FAU page located in this review states that it remains enabled today. A reader whose case turns on this point has an answerable question for the office holding the case, and the two dated pages above are the documents to put beside it.

What FAU states about the weight detector output carries

Nothing. No FAU page located in this review states how a Turnitin AI writing score is weighed as evidence, whether a score alone can support a finding, or what corroboration is expected. Searched for such a statement across the Dean of Students academic-integrity pages and instructor templates, Regulation 4.001 itself, the Center for Teaching and Learning's academic-integrity pages for students and faculty, the Faculty AI Hub, and the OIT Canvas service pages. Regulation 4.001 states no evidentiary standard for academic-integrity cases — the words “preponderance” and “clear and convincing” appear nowhere in it.

The graduate thesis and dissertation pipeline

FAU's Graduate College documents a separate originality workflow, run at the committee chair's option rather than centrally (no on-page date displayed; retrieved Aug 26, 2026):

"The Committee Chair can review pdfs of Originality Reports that his/her students generate via email or hard copy print out OR those faculty members who wish to run theses/dissertations through plagiarism detection software may use TurnItIn or SafeAssign within their Canvas courses." "To prevent the manuscript from being stored in a repository, TurnItIn offers a ‘no repository’ option and SafeAssign users can create ‘draft’ assignments."

Source: Originality Check Procedure for Thesis/Dissertation Committee Chair — FAU Graduate College. Scope and character: this is the graduate thesis and dissertation route, not undergraduate coursework, and FAU describes both named tools here as plagiarism detection software. The page does not mention AI writing detection.

A College of Medicine page describing Turnitin as an AI tool

FAU's College of Medicine support centre describes Turnitin in its own knowledge base (article last updated Feb 19, 2024; retrieved Aug 26, 2026): "Turnitin is an AI plagiarism tool available in COM Canvas courses to detect plagiarism, check grammar, and give grading tools." Source: Creating a Turnitin.com Assignment — FAU College of Medicine Support Center. Scope: College of Medicine Canvas courses. The phrase describes the product, and the article's own steps and links are about plagiarism detection; it is recorded here because a reader in that college will meet this wording rather than the OIT wording.

Proctoring

FAU's OIT documents one proctoring system in its Canvas additional-tools catalogue (no on-page date displayed; retrieved Aug 26, 2026):

"Honorlock is an online proctoring system for online quizzes and tests. It combines a few common features of online proctoring systems with screen-recording and live remote proctors in order to provide another layer of academic integrity management for your online course(s)." "YOU MUST HAVE APPROVAL FROM YOUR DEPARTMENT CHAIR PRIOR TO IMPLEMENTING HONORLOCK IN YOUR CANVAS COURSE. HONORLOCK OPERATES ON A DEPARTMENTAL LICENSE AT FAU AND CHARGES A FEE PER STUDENT, PER EXAM."

Source: Honorlock — FAU OIT Canvas. Scope: exam sessions in Canvas quizzes, on a departmental license rather than campus-wide, and FAU describes its output as proctoring session results, not an AI-writing score. Respondus LockDown Browser is listed in the same catalogue as an exam-lockdown tool; FAU does not describe it as detecting AI writing.

A tool named on an FAU page that FAU is not documented as running

GPTZero appears once in FAU's own published materials, in a Charles E. Schmidt College of Science teaching-forum slide deck (dated January 30, 2023; retrieved Aug 26, 2026): "Written assignments should be submitted to portals that can check for originality, e.g. Turnitin on Canvas, or new applications detecting AI based plagiarism (e.g.GPTZero)." The same deck lists GPTZero among “AI-detection software emerging” with a link to the vendor's public site. Source: COS Teaching Forum — Academic Integrity (PDF), FAU College of Science. Provenance: this is a college forum's slide suggesting a publicly available tool, not documentation that FAU licenses, integrates or deploys GPTZero, and no FAU page located in this review documents such a deployment. The same deck also records the presenters' own caution about detection generally — “False Positives with Turn-it-in,” “Can't take ‘originality scores’ at face value,” and “Lack of evidence in AI-use detection” — which is the view of the presenters at a 2023 college forum, not a university position.

What FAU's regulation says about AI itself

Regulation 4.001 names AI in its definitions (amended 08-13-2024; retrieved Aug 26, 2026): "Using unauthorized notes, books, electronic devices, artificial intelligence tools (‘AI’), or other resources or study aids while taking an examination or working on an assignment," and "Presenting words from a source, person or AI as one's own without proper quotation and citation." Source: Regulation 4.001, Code of Academic Integrity (PDF). The word “unauthorized” carries the weight: FAU's Faculty AI Hub asks instructors to “Establish clear and comprehensive policies regarding AI tool usage in the classroom” and publishes syllabus-statement templates, so the course syllabus is among the relevant sources for any particular assignment. Source: Faculty AI Hub — AI @ FAU (retrieved Aug 26, 2026).

Detection sweep, so a later reader can tell a thorough negative from an unasked question. Searched on fau.edu and its subdomains: Turnitin (including the AI writing indicator, Feedback Studio, Draft Coach, SimCheck and Originality), SafeAssign, Copyleaks, iThenticate, GPTZero, Originality.ai, Winston AI, Crossplag, ZeroGPT, Packback, Grammarly and Grammarly Authorship, Honorlock, Proctorio, Respondus and Examity; the Canvas additional-tools integration catalogue; the OIT help desk service catalogue and the AI Knowledge Base; the AI @ FAU endorsed-tools list; the Graduate College thesis and dissertation pipeline; the Center for Teaching and Learning's student and faculty academic-integrity pages; the Dean of Students academic-integrity resources; and the Libraries' proctoring policy. Documented in FAU's own pages: Turnitin (similarity, and AI writing detection per the 2023 and 2024 pages above), SafeAssign as a chair-selected option in the graduate pipeline, Honorlock, and Respondus LockDown Browser. Grammarly Premium appears on FAU's endorsed AI tools list as a writing-assistance tool for students, faculty and staff, not as a detector, and Grammarly Authorship is not mentioned. No first-party FAU page naming Copyleaks, iThenticate, Originality.ai, Winston AI, Crossplag, ZeroGPT, Packback, Proctorio or Examity in institutional use was located in this review. GPTZero appears only in the college teaching-forum deck described above.

02Published procedure

What FAU's own regulation says about how cases proceed

Who may be present: “The student may choose to be accompanied by a single advisor, but only the student may speak on their own behalf.” On recording, the same paragraph states that the dean or designee will “maintain the minutes and all records of the appeal hearing, which will not be transcribed or recorded.” — Regulation 4.001, Code of Academic Integrity, paragraph (3)(D), governing the Faculty-Student Council hearing (regulation amended 08-13-2024; retrieved Aug 26, 2026). Scope line, quoted because FAU draws it: this provision is written for the Council hearing before the dean. Regulation 4.001 states no companion provision for the earlier instructor meeting under (3)(A) or the chair/director meeting under (3)(C) · Regulation 4.001 (PDF)
What follows on the record: “the chair will notify the University Registrar that the following notation be included on both the student's academic transcript and on the student's internal record: ‘Violation of Code of Academic Integrity.’” The same regulation adds: “Upon successful completion of the seminar, the notation regarding violation of the Code of Academic Integrity will be expunged from the student's official transcript but will remain in the student's internal University record.” — Regulation 4.001, paragraphs (3)(F) and (4)(B) (regulation amended 08-13-2024; retrieved Aug 26, 2026). Not stated in the sources reviewed: how long the internal record is retained, or whether it is disclosed to graduate programs, employers or licensing boards. Searched Regulation 4.001, Regulation 4.008 Access to Student Records, the Dean of Students academic-integrity pages, and the Dean's Certifications and Records Requests page · Regulation 4.001 (PDF)

The two questions an adviser raises first, answered from this institution's own published documents — or recorded as not stated in them.

From Regulation 4.001, the Code of Academic Integrity (regulation amended 08-13-2024; retrieved Aug 26, 2026) — the binding document, quoted at the points where it describes what a student encounters:

"If the instructor determines that there is sufficient evidence to believe that a student engaged in dishonesty, the instructor will meet with the student at the earliest possible opportunity and provide notice to the student of their perception of the facts, the charges against the student, and the sanction." "The instructor may not remove the student from the course until the appeal process has concluded." "If, after this meeting, the instructor continues to believe that the student engaged in dishonesty, or if the student failed to respond to the instructor's request for a meeting, the instructor will provide the student written notice of the allegation, the penalty, and a link to this regulation." "The student is entitled to an opportunity to be heard at a meeting with the instructor and chair/director to review and discuss the allegation. Such request for a meeting must be made in writing and received by the chair/director within five (5) business days of receipt of the notice of allegation." "The chair/director will not issue a decision on the allegation without the mutual agreement of the student and the instructor." "The hearing is an educational activity subject to student privacy laws/regulations, and the strict rules of evidence do not apply. The student may choose to be accompanied by a single advisor, but only the student may speak on their own behalf. The student and instructor may present testimony and documents on their behalf." "The Council will deliberate and make a recommendation to the dean to affirm or void the instructor's findings of academic dishonesty only and shall not make a finding with regard to the penalty assigned by the instructor." "This decision by the Provost (or designee) constitutes final University action."

Source: Regulation 4.001, Code of Academic Integrity (PDF). The regulation's own sequence is instructor meeting, written notice of allegation, optional meeting with the chair or director, appeal to the dean and a Faculty-Student Council composed of “the dean (or designee), two faculty members, and two students,” then appeal to the Provost. Each written step in that sequence carries a five business day window in the regulation's text; those windows are quoted from the source above, not calculated here.

On penalties and on the seminar, the regulation states (retrieved Aug 26, 2026):

"The instructor will determine the penalty to be administered to the student in the course. Students should be aware that, in some Colleges/programs, failure in a course or a finding of dishonesty may result in other penalties, including expulsion or suspension from the College/program." "In the case of a first offense, the student may elect to complete an Academic Integrity Seminar administered by the Division of Student Affairs by the end of the semester following the semester in which the dishonesty occurred." "Students may not apply to the University's forgiveness policy, drop, or withdraw from courses in which a violation of the Code of Academic Integrity occurred." "In the case of a repeat offense, even if the notation of violation of the Code of Academic Integrity from the first offense had been expunged from the official transcript after successful completion of the Academic Integrity Seminar, the student will be expelled from the University."

The Dean of Students Office publishes the seminar request form and the current per-semester completion deadlines on its academic-integrity page, together with the instructor templates used at each step — Template 1, the instructor's initial request for a meeting; Template 2, the instructor notice; Template 4, the summary of the chair; Template 5, the findings of the Dean's Council — and a Faculty Toolkit Flowchart for 4.001. Those are instructor-facing documents, listed here because they are the papers a student in this process receives. Source: Academic Integrity — FAU Dean of Students (no on-page date displayed; retrieved Aug 26, 2026). What any of this means for a particular case is for the institution and its process to determine.

03Source map

Where the documents live

Document	Location
Regulation 4.001, Code of Academic Integrity (amended 08-13-2024) — procedure, appeals, transcript notation, penalties	fau.edu/regulations — reg4-001-august2024.pdf
University Regulations, Chapter 4 (index; also carries 4.007 Student Code of Conduct and 4.008 Access to Student Records)	fau.edu/regulations/chapter-4
Academic integrity resources, seminar request, instructor templates and flowchart (Dean of Students)	fau.edu/dean/academic-integrity
Academic integrity for students (Center for Teaching and Learning)	fau.edu/ctl — Academic Integrity
Turnitin AI writing detection announcement (OIT Instructional Technologies, Apr 3, 2023)	wordpress.fau.edu/canvas — Turnitin Adds AI Detection This Week
Turnitin AI Indicator training for reviewers of flagged papers (OIT, Apr 29, 2024)	techevents.fau.edu — Training with the Trainer: TurnItIn AI Indicator
Turnitin service page, current (OIT Canvas)	fau.edu/canvas/additional-tools/turnitin
Turnitin in College of Medicine Canvas courses (COM Support Center, updated Feb 19, 2024)	comsupport.fau.edu — Creating a Turnitin.com Assignment
Turnitin or SafeAssign in the thesis and dissertation pipeline (Graduate College)	fau.edu/graduate — Chair Originality Check
Honorlock proctoring (OIT Canvas additional tools)	fau.edu/canvas/additional-tools/honorlock
GPTZero named in a college teaching-forum deck (Jan 30, 2023) — not documented as an FAU deployment	fau.edu/science — COS Teaching Forum, Academic Integrity (PDF)
Faculty AI Hub — syllabus statements and course-level AI rules	fau.edu/ai/faculty
Dean of Students Office contact	Student Services Building (SS #8), Room 222, 777 Glades Road, Boca Raton, FL 33431-0991 · 561-297-3542 · no central office email published (from the office's pages, retrieved Aug 26, 2026) · fau.edu/dean/contact
Office of the Ombuds — confidential, neutral, by appointment; states it does not engage in matters undergoing formal process	Bldg 03/Wimberly Library, Room 156B · (561) 297-3693 · ombuds@fau.edu · fau.edu/ombuds and fau.edu/ombuds/how-we-can-help (retrieved Aug 26, 2026)
Transcript notation and record retention — Regulation 4.001 (3)(F) and (4)(B); Dean's Certifications and Records Requests	fau.edu/dean/studentconduct/records

Organizing your own drafts and records to bring to any of this: the records checklist. Capturing the pages above as they read today, and keeping your own dated record beside them: what to do with these sources.

04Change log

Revision history of this page

2026-08-26 — Page created. All quotations retrieved this date, first-party, from the fau.edu pages and PDFs linked beside them; nothing on this page is paraphrase-pending. Source dates as published: Regulation 4.001 amended 08-13-2024; the OIT Instructional Technologies post dated April 3, 2023; the OIT AI Indicator training event dated April 29, 2024; the College of Medicine knowledge-base article last updated Feb 19, 2024; the College of Science teaching-forum deck dated January 30, 2023. The OIT Turnitin and Honorlock service pages, the Graduate College Chair Originality Check page, the Dean of Students academic-integrity and contact pages, the CTL academic-integrity page, the Faculty AI Hub and the Office of the Ombuds pages display no on-page date; each is recorded with its retrieval date only. Reviewer: Carrie Schluter (review confirmed 2026-08-26). Internet Archive captures: to be added.

2026-08-26 — Currency, reproduced rather than resolved. This page was built from a tipoff that FAU's current Turnitin service page does not mention AI detection while its 2023 announcement and 2024 training do. That divergence was confirmed first-party on both sides and is presented as a divergence in section 01: FAU published that the AI writing indicator was enabled in its Canvas Turnitin assignments, and FAU's live service page for the same tool now describes similarity checking and drafting only. Searched for a superseding statement in either direction across the OIT Instructional Technologies blog archive through its August 18, 2026 post, the OIT Canvas policies-and-procedures list, the AI Knowledge Base, the Faculty AI Hub, the Dean of Students academic-integrity pages and Regulation 4.001; none was located. No FAU page states the indicator was disabled, and none states it is currently enabled. The detection-status line and the section heading both say so rather than asserting a live capability.

2026-08-26 — Detection sweep recorded in full in section 01 and summarized here. Named-vendor sweep on fau.edu and subdomains: Turnitin (AI writing indicator, Feedback Studio, Draft Coach, SimCheck, Originality), SafeAssign, Copyleaks, iThenticate, GPTZero, Originality.ai, Winston AI, Crossplag, ZeroGPT, Packback, Grammarly and Grammarly Authorship, Honorlock, Proctorio, Respondus, Examity. Category sweep: the Canvas additional-tools integration catalogue, the OIT help desk service catalogue and AI Knowledge Base, the AI @ FAU endorsed-tools list, the Graduate College thesis and dissertation pipeline, the Dean of Students and CTL integrity pages, and the Libraries' proctoring policy. Came back empty: Copyleaks, iThenticate, Originality.ai, Winston AI, Crossplag, ZeroGPT, Packback, Grammarly Authorship, Proctorio, Examity, and any FAU-run detector not named above. Provenance calls: GPTZero is named only in a 2023 College of Science teaching-forum deck as a publicly available tool a presenter suggested, which is not documentation of an FAU deployment and is labelled as such; SafeAssign and Turnitin in the graduate pipeline are chair-selected plagiarism-detection options, not an AI-detection pipeline; Honorlock and Respondus LockDown Browser are exam tools FAU does not describe as detecting AI writing; Grammarly Premium is on FAU's endorsed-tools list as writing assistance, not detection.

2026-08-26 — Ombuds capture, against the three traps. FAU publishes one Office of the Ombuds, reporting outside the Dean of Students Office that administers conduct matters, and its own homepage states it serves “students, faculty, staff, and the university community” — so it is neither staff-only nor graduate-only, and it is not housed inside the office handling the matter. It is a university office, not a single school's. Its own “cannot” list is recorded in the docket because it bears directly on a live allegation: FAU states the Ombuds cannot “Engage in matters that are undergoing formal process,” cannot “Advocate for an individual or group,” and cannot “Participate in any investigative procedures.” No separate student-advocacy office for academic-integrity matters was located; the Dean of Students “Case Management & Student Advocacy” unit publishes no academic-integrity role on its pages and sits inside the same office, and is therefore not offered here as an independent resource.

2026-08-26 — Deliberate omissions. The per-semester Academic Integrity Seminar completion deadlines published on the Dean of Students academic-integrity page are referred to but not reproduced, because they rotate each term and this page does not restate deadlines; the page is linked so the current ones can be read at the source. Individual staff names and addresses from the Dean of Students contact page are omitted in favour of the office's published address and phone. The tipoff that prompted this build named a third-party AI-policy tracker as a route to FAU; no tracker claim is used or repeated here, and every statement above rests on an FAU page. Nothing was located on the evidentiary weight of a detector score, on the retention period for the internal record, or on disclosure of that record to graduate programs, employers or licensing boards; those absences are stated in place, at the scope actually searched, rather than left blank.

2026-08-28 — Sources re-fetched and compared this date; no changes. Every linked fau.edu, wordpress.fau.edu, techevents.fau.edu and comsupport.fau.edu source was retrieved and checked against the quotations above and found verbatim and unchanged: the April 3, 2023 OIT AI-detection announcement, the April 29, 2024 AI Indicator training event, the current OIT Turnitin service page (still describing plagiarism prevention, Feedback Studio and Draft Coach only, with no AI-writing detection), the Graduate College Chair Originality Check page, the College of Medicine knowledge-base article (last updated Feb 19, 2024), the Honorlock service page, the College of Science teaching-forum deck (Jan 30, 2023, the GPTZero line and the false-positive caution intact), Regulation 4.001 (still amended 08-13-2024; every procedure, appeal, transcript-notation and penalty quotation intact), the Faculty AI Hub, the Dean of Students academic-integrity resources page (Faculty Toolkit Flowchart and Templates 1–5 still listed) and contact page, the CTL student academic-integrity page, and both Office of the Ombuds pages (the neutral-third-party description and the "undergoing formal process" limitation intact). Office contacts re-confirmed — Dean of Students at Student Services Building (SS #8) Room 222, 561-297-3542, no central office email published; Office of the Ombuds, Dr. Angella J. Wint, Wimberly Library Room 156B, (561) 297-3693, ombuds@fau.edu, by appointment only.

2026-08-28 — Detection status unchanged; the divergence stands. No FAU page located this date states that the Turnitin AI writing indicator was later disabled, and none states it is currently enabled; the 2023 announcement and 2024 reviewer training remain live beside a current service page that describes similarity and drafting only. The named-vendor and category sweeps were re-run and again returned only Turnitin (similarity, plus the 2023/2024 AI-writing pages), SafeAssign (chair-selected graduate option), Honorlock and Respondus LockDown Browser in institutional use; Copyleaks, iThenticate, Originality.ai, Winston AI, Crossplag, ZeroGPT, Packback, Grammarly Authorship, Proctorio and Examity again came back empty, and GPTZero again appears only in the 2023 college teaching-forum deck. Step-2 disqualification check: clear pass, unchanged. Observation for the next reviewer: the OIT Canvas navigation now labels this entry "Turnitin & Gradescope," but the page body and every quotation are unchanged and Gradescope is not described as a detector. Internet Archive captures still pending: Save Page Now was blocked from this run environment this date.

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