Florida Gulf Coast University.

Detection status: Turnitin's AI Writing Detection is available in Canvas; instructors are told to use it only to start a conversation, never as the sole basis for a finding
Office in these sources: Office of Student Conduct · 10501 FGCU Blvd. S., Fort Myers, FL 33965 · 239-590-7900 · no office-wide email published, only named staff addresses
Ombuds or advocacy office: Office of the University Ombuds — "All students — undergraduate, graduate, professional, non-degree seeking, etc. — have access to the Ombuds Office," and the office "shall maintain what the visitor discusses with the office in confidence" subject to stated exceptions · Edwards Hall Room 211 · 239-590-1022 · ombuds@fgcu.edu
Sources last checked: Sep 17, 2026

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

FGCU's published sources on AI detection and academic integrity, quoted and linked below. These are potentially relevant official sources, not a determination of which one governs any case — course syllabi and instructor-set rules may also apply. Confirm applicability with the institution. Any dates are quoted from the sources, not a deadline calculation performed for you.

01Detection status

Turnitin's AI Writing Detection is available at FGCU

FGCU's Digital Learning technology-and-support page (no on-page date; retrieved Sep 17, 2026) describes Turnitin's AI Writing Detection feature — "(will show an overall percentage of the document that may have been AI-generated)" — and instructs faculty:

"Only use Turnitin's AI Writing Detection results as a means to start a formative conversation with your student and/or to examine the submitted assignment in greater detail according to standards related to academic integrity in the Student Code of Conduct and Student Conduct Review Process (Regulation 4.002)."

Source: Digital Learning: Technology and Support. The same page separately states, of Turnitin generally: "Students agree that by taking this course all required papers may be subject to submission for textual similarity review to Turnitin.com or other plagiarism detection services." Source: Core Syllabus Policy Statements — Office of the Provost (no on-page date; retrieved Sep 17, 2026).

Named-vendor sweep (Turnitin, SimCheck, Originality, Copyleaks, iThenticate, GPTZero, Originality.ai, Winston AI, Crossplag, ZeroGPT, Packback, Grammarly Authorship, Honorlock, Proctorio, Respondus, Examity) and category sweep (Digital Learning technology pages, the University Library's AI-for-instruction guide, the General Counsel's AI guidance page) found one explicit negative: the Library's AI-for-instruction page lists GPTZero among individual-use AI detectors and states plainly, "The tools are for individual use; FGCU does not currently subscribe to or endorse them" (retrieved Sep 17, 2026). Source: AI for Instruction — University Library. Respondus LockDown Browser and Respondus Monitor are documented for exam proctoring, under the heading "Mitigating AI-Based Assistance in Canvas Quizzes" — with no first-party AI-writing-detection claim, recorded in the sweep and not presented as a detector. Source: Canvas Quicktip 3 (Oct 28, 2025; retrieved Sep 17, 2026).

02Published procedure

What FGCU's Regulation 4.002 says about how cases proceed

Who may be present: "The Respondent Student or Organization may have, at his or her own expense and initiative, one (1) Advisor present at all meetings and official proceedings," including an attorney with two days' notice, and — more permissively than most institutions' rules — "[t]he Advisor may be present at all Disciplinary Proceedings with the Student and may participate directly in the meeting or proceeding, including presenting relevant information and questioning Witnesses." Recording: "All Administrative Hearings will be digitally recorded by the Hearing Officer where the Respondent Student or Organization has the potential for receiving a sanction" of suspension or expulsion, serving as "the sole official verbatim record"; other recordings are prohibited. — Student Code of Conduct and Student Conduct Review Process (Regulation 4.002), last approved Jun 11, 2024; retrieved Sep 17, 2026 · Regulation 4.002 — PolicyStat
What follows on the record: "All records pertaining to the Student conduct process will be maintained by the Office of Student Conduct for a period of seven (7) years following the last semester in which a Student was enrolled at the University. In cases where a Student is suspended or expelled, all Student conduct records will be maintained permanently." A "Transcript Overlay" is defined as "[a] notation on a Student's University transcript that states the Student is not in Good Disciplinary Standing due to a disciplinary suspension or expulsion." — Regulation 4.002, last approved Jun 11, 2024; retrieved Sep 17, 2026 · Regulation 4.002 — PolicyStat

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

Regulation 4.002 carries a section specific to academic-integrity cases ("Adjudication of Cases of Academic Integrity Violations"), quoted here (last approved Jun 11, 2024; retrieved Sep 17, 2026):

"In cases where the Student does not have a prior history of academic integrity Violations, the faculty member of record for the class will communicate with the Respondent Student and informs him or her of the allegations against them and initiate a meeting with the Student to discuss the allegation(s)." "If the Respondent Student accepts responsibility for the academic integrity Violation, the faculty member will ensure that the Student completes the Student Responsibility for Faculty Summary Resolution of Academic Integrity Violation form and the Student will receive an academic sanction determined by the faculty member of record, which may include a failing grade in the class." "If a resolution between the faculty member and the Student cannot be reached, the faculty member will refer the matter to the Office of Student Conduct for resolution under this Code." "The AIC will hear the case and make a determination of whether there is a preponderance of information to find the Respondent Student responsible for academic integrity Violations." (Regulation 4.002 defines the AIC as the Academic Integrity Committee, coordinated by the Office of Student Conduct.) "The standard of proof necessary for a determination that a Violation of any provision of this Code has occurred is a preponderance of the evidence. […] The burden of proof shall not be upon the Respondent Student or Organization who is subject to the Hearing."

Appeal runs to the Vice President for Student Success & Enrollment Management (or a designated Appeal Officer) on one of four stated grounds — due-process error, new evidence unavailable at the hearing, disproportionate sanctions, or (in Title IX cases) decision-maker bias — and "may be appealed within three (3) Days of the date of the decision letter." Source: Regulation 4.002, Article F. What these quotations mean for any particular case is for the institution and its process to determine; they are reproduced so you can read the originals in context.

03Source map

Where the documents live

Document	Location
Digital Learning: Technology and Support (Turnitin AI Writing Detection guidance)	fgcu.edu/digitallearning/technology-and-support
Core Syllabus Policy Statements — Office of the Provost	fgcu.edu/about/leadership/officeoftheprovost/core-syllabus-policy-statements
AI for Instruction — University Library (individual-use tools, not FGCU-subscribed)	library.fgcu.edu/artificialintelligence/instruction
Canvas Quicktip 3 (Respondus proctoring)	fgcu.edu/digitallearning — Canvas Quicktip 3 (Oct 28, 2025)
Student Code of Conduct and Student Conduct Review Process (Regulation 4.002)	fgcu.policystat.com — Regulation 4.002 (last approved Jun 11, 2024)
Office of Student Conduct	fgcu.edu/studentlife/studentconduct — 10501 FGCU Blvd. S., Fort Myers, FL 33965 · 239-590-7900 (retrieved Sep 17, 2026)
Office of the University Ombuds	fgcu.edu/ombuds/student

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

2026-09-17 — Page created. Priority A tranche 4, entry 128 (cold build, no prior CANDIDATES.md/procedure-facts.json research to reuse). Detection: Turnitin's AI Writing Detection confirmed available at FGCU through its Digital Learning technology-and-support page, which instructs faculty to "[o]nly use Turnitin's AI Writing Detection results as a means to start a formative conversation with your student" and never as sole evidence — a caution-against-sole-reliance pattern, not a disabling, so not disqualified. Named-vendor and category sweeps found no other institution-deployed detector; the Library's AI-for-instruction page explicitly states individual-use detectors including GPTZero are not FGCU-subscribed or endorsed. Respondus LockDown Browser/Monitor confirmed for exam proctoring only. TRANSPORT NOTE: FGCU's own regulations landing page (fgcu.edu/regulations-policies/) and the old PDF path for Regulation 4.002 (fgcu.edu/generalcounsel/regulations/approved/regulation4.002.pdf, still linked from FGCU's own catalog and General Counsel pages) both return an infinite HTTP 301 redirect loop to a plain curl fetch — a stale internal link surviving the university's own move to PolicyStat, not a block on this reviewer. The regulations landing page itself states "Current approved regulations and policies are maintained in PolicyStat, FGCU's online policy management system," and Regulation 4.002 was located and read there directly (fgcu.policystat.com/policy/19584335/latest/, a client-rendered page read via a first-party browser session; last approved Jun 11, 2024). Process captured in full from Regulation 4.002's dedicated "Adjudication of Cases of Academic Integrity Violations" section: faculty-level resolution with a Faculty Referral and Summary Adjudication form; escalation to the Office of Student Conduct and an Academic Integrity Committee hearing on referral, denial, or prior history; preponderance-of-the-evidence standard stated explicitly and applied by name to academic-integrity cases; unusually permissive Advisor rights (may "participate directly in the meeting or proceeding, including presenting relevant information and questioning Witnesses," not limited to silent support as at most built pages); hearing recording required and treated as the sole official record where suspension or expulsion is possible; four-ground appeal (due-process error, new evidence, disproportionate sanction, Title IX bias) within three days to the Vice President for Student Success & Enrollment Management; seven-year record retention, permanent for suspension or expulsion, with a defined "Transcript Overlay" notation for those sanctions. OMBUDS FOUND AND ELIGIBLE: FGCU's Office of the University Ombuds states "All students — undergraduate, graduate, professional, non-degree seeking, etc. — have access to the Ombuds Office," and that the office "shall maintain what the visitor discusses with the office in confidence" subject to stated safety exceptions, and separately references adherence to "the International Ombudsman Association's Standards of Practice" (informality, impartiality, independence, confidentiality). Office: Office of Student Conduct, 10501 FGCU Blvd. S., Fort Myers, FL 33965, 239-590-7900 — no office-wide email published, only named staff addresses (Alvena Barnes, Interim Assistant Dean of Students/Director, abarnes@fgcu.edu), so the absence is stated rather than a personal address reproduced as the office's own. Nothing paraphrase-pending. Traces to tools/packets/fgcu-packet.txt with zero failures; gated in tools/fidelity-gate.txt. Archive captures pending — not requested this pass (unattended scheduled run). Reviewer: Carrie Schluter (review confirmed 2026-09-17).

2026-09-17 — Internet Archive captures requested this date by an automated capture pass; no human review is claimed for this entry. No quotation, date, finding or link above was changed by it. Each capture below was requested through Save Page Now and then confirmed to play back. Captures added: Digital Learning: Technology and Support → https://web.archive.org/web/20260917114352/https://www.fgcu.edu/digitallearning/technology-and-support; Core Syllabus Policy Statements → https://web.archive.org/web/20260917114126/https://www.fgcu.edu/about/officeoftheprovost/core-syllabus-policy-statements; AI for Instruction - Artificial Intelligence - University Library at Florida Gulf Coast University → https://web.archive.org/web/20260917114238/https://library.fgcu.edu/artificialintelligence/instruction; Canvas Quicktip 3 → https://web.archive.org/web/20260917114311/https://www.fgcu.edu/digitallearning/digital-learning-blog/canvas-quicktip-3-10-28-2025; PolicyStat :: PolicyStat → https://web.archive.org/web/20260917114210/https://login.microsoftonline.com/f7a5a4ef-4ffa-4c80-bfb3-c12e28872099/saml2; Student Conduct | FGCU → https://web.archive.org/web/20260917114507/https://www.fgcu.edu/studentlife/studentconduct/; Student Concerns → https://web.archive.org/web/20260917114434/https://www.fgcu.edu/ombuds/student.

2026-10-06 — Internet Archive captures requested on 2026-09-17 by an automated capture pass and recorded this date; no human review is claimed for this entry. No quotation, date, finding or link above was changed by it. Each capture below was requested through Save Page Now and then confirmed to play back. Captures added: Core Syllabus Policy Statements — Office of the Provost → https://web.archive.org/web/20260917114126/https://fgcu.edu/about/leadership/officeoftheprovost/core-syllabus-policy-statements; Regulation 4.002 — PolicyStat → https://web.archive.org/web/20260917114210/https://fgcu.policystat.com/policy/19584335/latest/.

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