California State University, Fresno.
- Detection status
- Turnitin AI Writing Detection documented as a Chancellor's Office–funded pilot enabled in summer 2025 and “enabled by default for all courses using Turnitin,” with results visible to instructors only and Fresno State's own instruction to treat a report as “a starting point, not a conclusion”; Turnitin originality checking documented separately in Canvas Assignments; Respondus LockDown Browser and Monitor in the proctoring stack; the pilot's end is not stated on any page located
- Office in these sources
- Office of Student Rights and Responsibilities · second floor, Joyal Administration Building, room 274 · 5150 N. Maple Ave., M/S JA67, Fresno, CA 93740 · 559.278.8740 · studentconduct@csufresno.edu · fresnostate.edu — Student Conduct
- Ombuds or advocacy office
- None located on the institution's own pages in this review. Searched fresnostate.edu for “ombuds,” “ombudsperson” and “student advocacy”; the office Fresno State lists under Student Advocacy & Support is the conduct office itself, described there as “Student Rights and Responsibilities — A neutral party to help with navigating challenges or disputes with university services” (fresnostate.edu — Student Advocacy & Support, page marked Last Updated Apr 8, 2026). That is the same office that administers discipline, so it is not independent of the matter. The Survivor Advocate listed on the same page is scoped to sexual violence and misconduct and serves “students, staff, and faculty,” not academic-integrity matters.
- 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.
Fresno State's published sources on AI detection and academic integrity, quoted and linked below. Two tracks run in parallel and are governed by different documents: an academic cheating-and-plagiarism matter proceeds under APM 235, the Policy and Procedures on Cheating and Plagiarism (approved by the President April 13, 2023), which routes an appeal to the Student Academic Petitions Committee under APM 242; a student-conduct matter proceeds under the campus procedures built on the California State University's systemwide Executive Order 1098, which state that the President's final determination “may not be appealed.” APM 236, the Code of Academic Integrity, supplies the honour-code framing. Course syllabi may add rules of their own. 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.
AI detection is in use at Fresno State — as a named, funded pilot, switched on by default
Most institutions on this site document a detector that is simply present. Fresno State documents a pilot with a funder, a start date and a default setting. From the Office of IDEAS' Turnitin AI Writing Detection page (page marked Last Updated Jul 20, 2026; retrieved Aug 27, 2026):
Source: Turnitin AI Writing Detection — academics.fresnostate.edu/ideas/digitallearning/turnitin-ai.html. Scope: Canvas Assignments. Who sees the output: instructors and administrators, and the student only if the instructor chooses to share it.
On what the output can be taken to establish, the same page is direct (retrieved Aug 27, 2026):
Source: academics.fresnostate.edu/ideas/digitallearning/turnitin-ai.html (instructor-facing, quoted because it describes the process a student experiences). The same page states the feature's language coverage has been extended: “Turnitin has recently expanded its AI writing detection capabilities to include Spanish and Japanese text, in addition to English.” The page states nothing about how a score functions once a matter reaches the Office of Student Rights and Responsibilities, and no such statement was located elsewhere on fresnostate.edu; that absence is stated here rather than filled in.
A currency question is left open by Fresno State's own pages, and it is reproduced rather than resolved. The dedicated pilot page, last updated Jul 20, 2026, still describes the pilot in the present tense as covering “the 2025-26 academic year” and states no end, extension or conversion to permanent status. The Office of the President's AI Initiative services-and-tools page, last updated Apr 8, 2026, lists the entry in full as: “Turnitin / Pilot in progress. Stay tuned for more information!” — while the same page marks Grammarly “Pilot Complete” and Google Gemini “Pilot concluded August 2025,” which shows the page does carry end-of-pilot labels when there is one to carry. Source: AI Services and Tools — president.fresnostate.edu/ai-initiative/services-tools.html. No first-party statement that the pilot has ended was located in this review, and no first-party statement that it continues into 2026-27 was located either.
A second divergence, on the same subject and between two live pages. The IDEAS “Teaching with AI” page (Last Updated Jul 20, 2026) frames the pilot differently and adds the institution's general position on detection:
Source: Teaching with AI — academics.fresnostate.edu/ideas/digitallearning/ai.html. “During the fall semester” and “during the 2025-26 academic year” are two descriptions of the same pilot, both currently published, and neither is preferred here. The same page also links GPT Zero, Detecting AI and Zero GPT as external resources; they appear as links, not as tools Fresno State deploys, and nothing here should be read as an institutional adoption of any of them.
Turnitin's baseline similarity function is documented separately: “Turnitin is an originality checking and plagiarism prevention service. Use as part of a Canvas Assignment.” Source: Alternative Assessment — academics.fresnostate.edu/ideas/digitallearning/alternative-assessment.html (Last Updated Jul 20, 2026). The proctoring stack is documented on the student-facing Canvas page (Last Updated Jul 29, 2026): “Some instructors may require that you use Respondus when taking online exams or quizzes. Respondus Lockdown Browser is a custom browser that locks down the testing environment within Canvas… Respondus Monitor is a companion product for the Respondus Lockdown Browser that enables institutions to protect the integrity of non-proctored online exams. You use your own computer and a webcam to record assessment sessions, all without leaving Canvas.” Source: Canvas for Students — academics.fresnostate.edu/canvas/students. Neither makes an AI-writing-detection claim. The same Alternative Assessment page names the Bulldog Testing Center as an in-person proctoring option.
One tool needs its name kept straight. Fresno State's President's Office page lists “Grammarly AI” as a completed pilot, described as “Grammarly's advanced AI-powered writing assistance offers real-time feedback to enhance writing skills” — that is the writing-assistance product, not Grammarly's Authorship tracking feature, and no page documenting Authorship at Fresno State was located. Stating the remaining absences at the scope actually searched: no AI-detection tool beyond Turnitin's was located as a Fresno State deployment in this review across the named vendors — Turnitin and its SimCheck and Originality product names, Copyleaks, iThenticate, GPTZero, Originality.ai, Winston AI, Crossplag, ZeroGPT, Packback, Grammarly Authorship, Honorlock, Proctorio, Respondus and Examity — nor on the Office of IDEAS digital-learning pages, the President's AI Initiative services-and-tools inventory, the Canvas student and faculty pages, or the Division of Graduate Studies thesis and dissertation submission-requirements page, which sets out formatting and approval requirements and names no plagiarism screening, no iThenticate and no AI-detection step. A general web result associating Proctorio with Fresno State's Canvas could not be traced to any fresnostate.edu page in this review and is not carried forward.
What Fresno State's own documents say about how cases proceed
- Who may be present
- “a faculty/staff member or student of the student's choice may attend to act as an advisor. Legal counsel may not attend departmental hearings.” — APM 235, Policy and Procedures on Cheating and Plagiarism, departmental hearing procedures (recommended by the Academic Senate October 1994; revised 11/94, 12/14/2004 and 4/10/2023; approved by the President April 13, 2023; retrieved Aug 27, 2026) · fresnostate.edu — APM 235 (PDF). In the separate student-conduct track the campus's own Procedures page states only that “An advisor may accompany the student and the student conduct administrator,” and says nothing either way about attorneys — a narrower answer than APM 235 gives for departmental hearings, and the difference is left as it stands. The same page also states that “A student may confer with family members, or advisors at any stage in the informal or formal process.” · fresnostate.edu — Student Conduct Procedures (Last Updated Apr 8, 2026). On recording: not stated in the sources reviewed as a student right. What is stated is the institution's own practice — “Written minutes and/or audio recordings of the hearing are kept” (same Procedures page). No provision addressing whether a student may record a meeting or hearing was located in APM 235, APM 236, the Student Conduct procedures, contact and policy pages, or the campus's Executive Order 1098 page.
- What follows on the record
- “The report will be placed in a confidential file in accordance with the federal Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974 and California's Education Code, Section 67100 et. seq. Seven years after the cheating/plagiarism incident is resolved, the report shall be removed from the file and destroyed.” — APM 235, Policy and Procedures on Cheating and Plagiarism (approved by the President April 13, 2023; retrieved Aug 27, 2026) · fresnostate.edu — APM 235 (PDF). On the academic transcript specifically the answer is an absence: no provision stating whether a cheating or plagiarism finding produces a transcript notation was located in APM 235, in APM 236, or on the Office of Student Rights and Responsibilities' procedures, policies or contact pages. APM 235 addresses the confidential disciplinary file and its destruction, not the transcript. No provision on disclosure to graduate programs, employers or licensing boards was located either.
The two questions an adviser raises first, answered from this institution's own published documents — or recorded as not stated in them.
APM 235 sets out the sequence and where the burden sits (approved April 13, 2023; retrieved Aug 27, 2026):
Source: APM 235 (PDF). The academic sanctions the policy names are “lowering a grade, assigning a grade of '0' or 'F' for the test/paper, assigning an 'F' for the entire course, or recommending another penalty,” and the disciplinary sanctions it contemplates “may include, but is not limited to… blocking the possibility of substituting a grade earned later in the same course, a written reprimand, probation, suspension, or expulsion.” Its appeal route is stated as: “the student has the right to appeal the decision to the Student Academic Petitions Committee in accordance with the Policy & Procedures for Reviewing and Appealing an Assigned Grade (APM 242)… within two weeks of the written notification of the decision.” Worth noting as the policy's own state, not as a correction to it: APM 235 cites CSU Executive Order 628 for the disciplinary track, while the campus's current student-conduct pages point to Executive Order 1098.
The campus's own description of the student-conduct process supplies the standard of proof and the finality rule (Last Updated Apr 8, 2026; retrieved Aug 27, 2026):
Source: Student Conduct Procedures — fresnostate.edu/studentconduct/procedures. The informal route is described on the same page as one where “the student must consent to any imposed sanction by signing a Resolution Agreement.” The two tracks end differently: APM 235 provides an appeal to the Student Academic Petitions Committee, and this page states that once the President has decided in the conduct track there is no appeal.
The systemwide framework the campus relies on is Executive Order 1098, which Fresno State's own page describes as follows: “These procedures are designed to afford students due process and to provide guidance to campuses to address student misconduct… This executive order should be distributed to employees responsible for student conduct matters and made available to all CSU students.” Source: Executive Order 1098 — fresnostate.edu/studentconduct/policies (Last Updated Apr 8, 2026), which links onward to the CSU-hosted text. APM 236, the Code of Academic Integrity (recommended by the Academic Senate April 2005; approved by the President May 5, 2005), supplies the campus's definition — “academic integrity is defined as ‘a commitment, even in the face of adversity, to five fundamental values: honesty, trust, fairness, respect, and responsibility.’” — and the sign-off students are asked to make: “Sign a statement at the end of all exams and assignments that ‘I have done my own work and have neither given nor received unauthorized assistance on this work.’” Source: APM 236 (PDF). What any of this means for a particular case is for the institution and its process to determine.
Where the documents live
| Document | Location |
|---|---|
| APM 235 — Policy and Procedures on Cheating and Plagiarism (approved by the President April 13, 2023): reporting windows, departmental hearing, advisor and legal-counsel rule, sanctions, APM 242 appeal, seven-year file destruction | fresnostate.edu — APM 235 (PDF) |
| APM 236 — Code of Academic Integrity (Academic Senate April 2005; approved May 5, 2005) | fresnostate.edu — APM 236 (PDF) |
| Student Conduct Procedures (preponderance standard, notice, hearing, advisor, recordings, President's final determination) | studentaffairs.fresnostate.edu/studentconduct/procedures |
| Executive Order 1098 (CSU systemwide student conduct procedures, as the campus publishes and links it) | studentaffairs.fresnostate.edu/studentconduct/policies/executive-order-1098.html |
| Office of Student Rights and Responsibilities (contact) | Joyal Administration Building, room 274 · 5150 N. Maple Ave., M/S JA67, Fresno, CA 93740 · 559.278.8740 · studentconduct@csufresno.edu (from the office's pages, retrieved Aug 27, 2026) · studentaffairs.fresnostate.edu/studentconduct/contact-us.html |
| Turnitin AI Writing Detection (the pilot: funding, summer 2025 enablement, default-on setting, instructor-only visibility, “a starting point, not a conclusion”) | academics.fresnostate.edu/ideas/digitallearning/turnitin-ai.html |
| Teaching with AI (the “during the fall semester” framing; external detector links not adopted by the campus) | academics.fresnostate.edu/ideas/digitallearning/ai.html |
| AI Services and Tools, Office of the President (Last Updated Apr 8, 2026 — “Turnitin / Pilot in progress”) | president.fresnostate.edu/ai-initiative/services-tools.html |
| Alternative Assessment (Turnitin originality checking in Canvas Assignments; Bulldog Testing Center) | academics.fresnostate.edu/ideas/digitallearning/alternative-assessment.html |
| Canvas for Students (Respondus LockDown Browser and Respondus Monitor) | academics.fresnostate.edu/canvas/students |
| Division of Graduate Studies — thesis and dissertation submission requirements (no plagiarism-screening or AI-detection step stated) | academics.fresnostate.edu/dgs/gssc/thesis/requirementsfor.html |
| Student Advocacy & Support (the “neutral party” description sits on the conduct office itself; no independent ombuds located) | studentaffairs.fresnostate.edu/studentresources/student-advocacy-support.html |
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Revision history of this page
2026-08-27 — Page created. All quotations captured this date, first-party, from the fresnostate.edu pages and PDFs linked beside them; every source quoted here was fetched and read as text rather than summarized, and no page relied on was blocked or client-rendered. Source dates as the sources give them: APM 235 recommended by the Academic Senate October 1994, revised 11/94, 12/14/2004 and 4/10/2023, approved by the President April 13, 2023; APM 236 recommended April 2005 and approved May 5, 2005; the Turnitin AI Writing Detection, Teaching with AI and Alternative Assessment pages marked Last Updated Jul 20, 2026; the Canvas for Students page Last Updated Jul 29, 2026; the President's AI Services and Tools page, the Student Conduct procedures, contact and Executive Order 1098 pages, the graduate thesis-requirements page and the Student Advocacy & Support page all marked Last Updated Apr 8, 2026 (the Canvas page excepted). Detection sweep recorded for a later reviewer. Named-vendor sweep — Turnitin (including SimCheck and Originality), Copyleaks, iThenticate, GPTZero, Originality.ai, Winston AI, Crossplag, ZeroGPT, Packback, Grammarly Authorship, Honorlock, Proctorio, Respondus, Examity: Turnitin found in two documented functions, AI Writing Detection as a funded pilot and originality checking in Canvas Assignments; Respondus LockDown Browser and Respondus Monitor found in the proctoring stack with no detection claim; GPT Zero, Detecting AI and Zero GPT found only as external links on the Teaching with AI page, not as deployments; Grammarly found as “Grammarly AI” writing assistance marked Pilot Complete, which is not the Authorship product and is recorded as a name distinction; Copyleaks, iThenticate, Originality.ai, Winston AI, Crossplag, Packback, Honorlock and Examity: nothing located. Proctorio: a general web result associating it with Fresno State's Canvas could not be traced to any fresnostate.edu page and is not carried forward in any form. Category sweep — Office of IDEAS digital-learning pages; the Office of the President's AI Initiative services-and-tools inventory; Canvas student and faculty pages; the Division of Graduate Studies thesis and dissertation submission-requirements page (formatting and approval requirements only, no screening step, no iThenticate); the proctoring and exam stack. Disqualification check run on the completed inventory: Fresno State has not disabled or recommended against AI detection across the board — the pilot is documented as “enabled by default for all courses using Turnitin,” and the cautions on the same page (“a starting point, not a conclusion”; “not proof of misconduct”; “False positives are possible”) go to weight rather than availability, so they are recorded beside the deployment rather than treated as a disqualification. Two divergences reproduced and deliberately not resolved. First, currency: the dedicated pilot page, updated Jul 20, 2026, still describes the pilot in the present tense as running “during the 2025-26 academic year” and states no end; the President's page, updated Apr 8, 2026, says “Pilot in progress” while labelling Grammarly “Pilot Complete” and Gemini “Pilot concluded August 2025,” so the page does carry end-of-pilot labels when there is one — no first-party statement that Fresno State's Turnitin AI pilot has ended, been extended, or been made permanent was located, and the page says so rather than inferring a status from the academic-year convention. Second, scope: the same institution's two live pages describe the pilot as running “during the 2025-26 academic year” and “during the fall semester,” and both are reproduced without preferring one. Also recorded, not resolved: APM 235 cites CSU Executive Order 628 while the campus's current conduct pages cite Executive Order 1098; and the two tracks end differently, with APM 235 providing an appeal to the Student Academic Petitions Committee while the conduct procedures state the President's decision “is final and may not be appealed.” Nothing paraphrase-pending — every quotation on this page was captured as text. Absences recorded as findings: no statement on how an AI-detection score functions as evidence once a matter reaches the conduct office; no transcript-notation provision located, only APM 235's confidential-file destruction after seven years; no provision on disclosure to graduate programs, employers or licensing boards; no stated student right to record a meeting or hearing; no position on attorneys at formal student-conduct hearings, where only APM 235's narrower departmental-hearing bar was located; and no independent ombuds or student-advocacy office, the campus's “student advocacy” listing being the conduct office itself. Automated research pass. Reviewer: Carrie Schluter (review confirmed 2026-08-27). Internet Archive captures: to be added.
2026-08-28 — Sources re-fetched and compared this date; every quotation intact and no page revised. Retrieved and checked: the Turnitin AI Writing Detection pilot page (Last Updated Jul 20, 2026; the funding, summer-2025-enablement, enabled-by-default, instructor-only-visibility, “a starting point, not a conclusion,” cannot-identify-which-tool and Spanish/Japanese quotations all verbatim; the pilot still described in the present tense as covering “the 2025-26 academic year” with no stated end), the President's AI Services and Tools page (Last Updated Apr 8, 2026; still “Turnitin / Pilot in progress. Stay tuned for more information!” beside “Pilot Complete: Grammarly AI” and “Pilot concluded August 2025” for Gemini — the currency divergence stands), the Teaching with AI page (the “tools … are not available” passage and the “during the fall semester” framing intact — the scope divergence stands; GPT Zero, Detecting AI and Zero GPT still appear as external links only), the Alternative Assessment page (the “Turnitin is an originality checking and plagiarism prevention service” line and the Bulldog Testing Center intact), the Canvas for Students page (the Respondus LockDown Browser and Monitor descriptions intact; Last Updated Jul 29, 2026), APM 235 (still approved April 13, 2023; the reporting windows, the advisor-and-no-legal-counsel departmental-hearing rule, the seven-year confidential-file destruction, the burden sentence, the sanctions and the APM 242 appeal all verbatim, and it still cites Executive Order 628), the campus Student Conduct Procedures page (the preponderance definition, the notice, the closed-hearing and recordings sentences, and “The President's decision is final and may not be appealed” all verbatim), and APM 236 (the five-values definition and the honour-statement sign-off intact). Office contact re-confirmed — Office of Student Rights and Responsibilities, Joyal Administration room 274, 559.278.8740, studentconduct@csufresno.edu.
2026-08-28 — Detection status unchanged; a third divergence newly observed and flagged for the owner. Turnitin remains the documented detector (the funded AI Writing Detection pilot, enabled by default, plus originality checking in Canvas Assignments), Respondus LockDown Browser and Monitor remain the proctoring stack with no AI-writing claim, and the named-vendor sweep again returned nothing for Copyleaks, iThenticate, GPTZero, Originality.ai, Winston AI, Crossplag, ZeroGPT, Packback, Grammarly Authorship, Honorlock, Proctorio and Examity. Both pilot divergences reproduced at build remain live and unreconciled: the pilot page describes the pilot as running “during the 2025-26 academic year” with no end while the President's page says “Pilot in progress,” and the pilot page and the Teaching with AI page describe the same pilot as running “the 2025-26 academic year” and “during the fall semester.” Newly observed this review, recorded rather than reconciled: the Alternative Assessment page now states that Respondus LockDown Browser “is still available while Respondus Monitor is not,” while the Canvas for Students page (Last Updated Jul 29, 2026) still describes Respondus Monitor as an available companion product — a live inconsistency between two Fresno State pages about Monitor's current availability. Both source quotations on this page remain verbatim; the divergence is noted here rather than resolved, and the owner may wish to add a line to section 01. Step-2 disqualification check: clear pass, unchanged. Internet Archive captures still pending: Save Page Now was blocked from this run environment this date.
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