University of Mississippi.
- Detection status
- SafeAssign text-matching documented in Blackboard, and Respondus LockDown Browser and Monitor with ProctorU documented by the UM Testing Center; no AI-writing detector documented as deployed, and the units that address detection caution against it — the Libraries state they do not recommend any AI detection tool
- Office in these sources
- No central academic-integrity office is published in these sources. Under the Academic Conduct and Discipline policy, cases are initiated in the myOleMiss system and email notifications issue from a Provost's Office representative · policies.olemiss.edu — Academic Conduct and Discipline (ACA.AR.600.001)
- Ombuds or advocacy office
- University Ombuds — "a confidential, neutral, independent, and informal place" per UM, reporting directly to the Chancellor. It serves faculty, staff, and graduate students only, so it is not a resource for undergraduates, and UM lists among what the office does not do: "[does not] handle academic complaints, such as grade appeals" and "[does not] participate in any formal grievance process" · *67 (662) 915-1537 · ombuds@olemiss.edu · ombuds.olemiss.edu
- Sources last checked
- Sep 25, 2026
- This record
- Assembled from 8 linked documents on 6 hosts · change log below: 7 dated entries, Aug 30 to Oct 6, 2026 · human review confirmed Sep 25, 2026 · the change record across every page · the collection in numbers
Reproduced from the institution’s own pages quoted below — potentially relevant official sources, not a determination of which one governs any case.
The University of Mississippi's published sources on AI detection and academic conduct, quoted and linked below. These are potentially relevant official sources, not a determination of which one governs any case — the Academic Conduct and Discipline policy governs most schools, the Schools of Law and Pharmacy run their own Honor Code systems, and UM's own syllabus guidance states that every instructor sets their class's generative-AI rules. Confirm applicability with the institution. Any dates are quoted from the sources, not a deadline calculation performed for you.
What is documented at UM — and what isn't
No University of Mississippi page located in this review documents an AI-writing detector as deployed. What UM's own pages document instead is a text-matching pipeline, a proctoring stack, and — from the two units that address AI detection directly — cautions against using it.
SafeAssign, in Blackboard. UM's Blackboard support materials document SafeAssign as the plagiarism-checking service integrated into Blackboard assignments (support document; no on-page date displayed; retrieved Aug 30, 2026):
Source: Assignments — Using SafeAssign (UM Blackboard support, PDF). SafeAssign is described in these materials as text-matching against source databases; no UM page states that it, or any other tool in institutional use, performs AI-writing detection.
The Libraries' position on AI detection. The UM Libraries' Artificial Intelligence Guide, in a section titled "Avoid AI Detection Tools," states (page created Nov 13, 2023; modified Jun 4, 2026; retrieved Aug 30, 2026):
Source: Artificial Intelligence Guide — Faculty Resources, UM Libraries. This is the Libraries' recommendation to instructors, not a campus-wide policy statement enabling or disabling detection; no such campus-wide statement was located in this review.
The teaching centre's syllabus guidance. The Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning's Syllabus Template — instructor-facing, quoted because it describes the framework a student's course rules come from — states (document; no on-page date displayed; retrieved Aug 30, 2026):
Source: CETL Syllabus Template (document download, hosted by UM Libraries). Your syllabus and assignment instructions are therefore among the relevant sources for your own situation.
Exam proctoring. The UM Testing Center's instructor pages document Respondus LockDown Browser and Respondus Monitor for exams, and its student pages name ProctorU as a student-paid remote option where an instructor allows it: "online instructors at UM may allow students to use ProctorU, a web-based proctoring service, to take their proctored exams" (retrieved Aug 30, 2026). Sources: UM Testing Center — Instructors · UM Testing Center — Testing for UM Online Courses. These are exam-proctoring tools; none of these pages describes AI-writing detection on submitted work.
Stated at the scope actually searched: no AI-writing detection tool was located in this review across the named vendors (Turnitin and its product names, Copyleaks, iThenticate, GPTZero, Originality.ai, Winston AI, Crossplag, ZeroGPT, Packback, Grammarly Authorship, Honorlock, Proctorio, Respondus, Examity), UM's Blackboard support materials, its Testing Center pages, its graduate thesis-and-dissertation pipeline (which documents ProQuest formatting review, not a detector), its Libraries guides, or its CETL guidance. A Turnitin-authored teaching module ("The Plagiarism Spectrum") appears on a UM course-content server, and that is educational content, not a deployment.
What UM's own policy says about how cases proceed
- Who may be present
- “The student and faculty member initiating the case shall be permitted, at his/her expense, to have an advocate or legal counsel provide support for him or her at the hearing and through all other stages of the academic discipline process.” The policy limits that role: “The role of the advocate or legal counsel shall be limited to an advisory capacity only.” On recording: “Hearings before the Academic Discipline Committee shall be recorded.” — Academic Conduct and Discipline policy (ACA.AR.600.001), effective date Jun 28, 2021; retrieved Aug 30, 2026 · UM Policy Directory — Academic Conduct and Discipline
- What follows on the record
- “All suspensions shall be permanently noted on the student’s transcript.” For expulsion: “A notation shall be placed on the student’s transcript.” For probation: “Academic disciplinary probation does not appear on a student’s transcript,” though probation “constitutes a warning that is noted in the academic discipline database for the student.” The policy does not address disclosure to graduate programs, employers, or licensing boards. — Academic Conduct and Discipline policy (ACA.AR.600.001), effective date Jun 28, 2021; retrieved Aug 30, 2026 · UM Policy Directory — Academic Conduct and Discipline
The two questions an adviser raises first, answered from this institution’s own published documents — or recorded as not stated in them.
From the Academic Conduct and Discipline policy (ACA.AR.600.001, effective date Jun 28, 2021; retrieved Aug 30, 2026):
The same policy states that a hearing recording "shall be preserved until the time for all avenues of appeal available to the student have expired," and that "At the student’s request, and at his/her own expense, copies shall be made available." Decisions of the Academic Discipline Committee are final under the policy "unless the final sanction includes suspension or expulsion," in which case the policy provides a written appeal to the chancellor "within five working days" of receipt of the written decision; for graduate students the dean of the Graduate School reviews committee decisions recommending sanctions. Source: UM Policy Directory — Academic Conduct and Discipline (ACA.AR.600.001). The Undergraduate Catalog carries a digest of the same rules and notes that the Schools of Law and Pharmacy "deal with disciplinary infractions through their student bodies, which maintain Honor Code systems": UM Catalog — Undergraduate Academic Regulations, Academic Conduct (the catalog now publishes the Academic Conduct regulations as a section of this page; retrieved Sep 25, 2026). What any of this means for a particular case is for the institution and its process to determine; the passages are reproduced so you can read the originals in context.
Where the documents live
| Document | Location |
|---|---|
| Academic Conduct and Discipline policy (ACA.AR.600.001) — procedures, sanctions, appeals, transcript notation | policies.olemiss.edu — Academic Conduct and Discipline (effective date Jun 28, 2021; retrieved Aug 30, 2026) |
| Undergraduate Catalog — Academic Regulations, Academic Conduct (section of the Undergraduate Academic Regulations page; the former address catalog.olemiss.edu/academics/regulations/conduct returns HTTP 404 as of Sep 25, 2026) | catalog.olemiss.edu — Undergraduate Academic Regulations (retrieved Sep 25, 2026) |
| SafeAssign in Blackboard (UM Blackboard support, PDF) | olemiss.edu/blackboard — Assignments, Using SafeAssign (no on-page date displayed; retrieved Aug 30, 2026) |
| Libraries Artificial Intelligence Guide — Faculty Resources ("Avoid AI Detection Tools") | guides.lib.olemiss.edu — Faculty Resources (created Nov 13, 2023; modified Jun 4, 2026; retrieved Aug 30, 2026) |
| CETL Syllabus Template — academic-integrity and generative-AI syllabus guidance | guides.lib.olemiss.edu — CETL Syllabus Template (document download) (no on-page date displayed; retrieved Aug 30, 2026) |
| UM Testing Center — instructor proctoring pages (Respondus LockDown Browser and Monitor; remote proctoring) | outreach.olemiss.edu/testing — Instructors (retrieved Aug 30, 2026) |
| UM Testing Center — student pages (Testing for UM Online Courses; ProctorU option) | outreach.olemiss.edu/testing — UM Online Testing (retrieved Aug 30, 2026) · testing@olemiss.edu · (662) 915-1267 (from the office's pages, retrieved Aug 30, 2026) |
| Academic-integrity office contact | None published centrally in these sources; the Academic Conduct and Discipline policy routes cases through the myOleMiss system, with email notifications from a Provost's Office representative (from the policy, retrieved Aug 30, 2026) |
| University Ombuds (serves faculty, staff, and graduate students; not undergraduates) | ombuds.olemiss.edu · *67 (662) 915-1537 · ombuds@olemiss.edu · 318 Trent Lott Leadership Institute (from the office's pages, retrieved Aug 30, 2026) |
| Record-retention and transcript-notation provisions | Within the Academic Conduct and Discipline policy above — probation "does not appear on a student’s transcript"; suspensions "permanently noted"; expulsion notated (retrieved Aug 30, 2026) |
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Revision history of this page
2026-08-30 — Page created. All quotations retrieved this date from the olemiss.edu pages and documents linked beside them. First-party captures: the Academic Conduct and Discipline policy (ACA.AR.600.001, PDF via the UM Policy Directory, effective date Jun 28, 2021); the Undergraduate Catalog's Academic Conduct digest; the Libraries Artificial Intelligence Guide Faculty Resources page (created Nov 13, 2023; modified Jun 4, 2026); the CETL Syllabus Template (a Word document served from the Libraries guide platform, read as text this date; it displays no on-page date); the UM Blackboard SafeAssign support PDF (no on-page date; its filename suggests the Blackboard 2019 documentation series); the UM Testing Center instructor and online-testing pages; and the University Ombuds site. Detection sweep recorded: named vendors searched on UM's own domains were Turnitin (with SimCheck and Originality), Copyleaks, iThenticate, GPTZero, Originality.ai, Winston AI, Crossplag, ZeroGPT, Packback, Grammarly Authorship, Honorlock, Proctorio, Respondus, and Examity; categories searched were the Blackboard support materials, the Testing Center's proctoring stack, the Graduate School's thesis-and-dissertation pipeline (which documents ProQuest formatting review and names no detector), the Libraries guides, and CETL guidance. All came back empty for AI-writing detection; SafeAssign (text-matching) and Respondus LockDown Browser/Monitor with a ProctorU option (exam proctoring) were the tools found. Deliberate omissions: a 2020 university news article and COVID-era teaching pages once documented Proctorio for remote testing, but both addresses now redirect to general pages, so Proctorio is not stated on any current page located in this review and is not listed as deployed; a Turnitin-authored "Plagiarism Spectrum" module on a UM course-content server is recorded as educational content, not deployment. The University Ombuds is recorded with the scope its own pages state — faculty, staff, and graduate students — which excludes undergraduates; no undergraduate-serving ombuds or independent advocacy office was located on UM's own pages in this review. Reviewer: Carrie Schluter (review confirmed 2026-08-30). Internet Archive captures: to be added.
2026-09-01 — Source re-verification, and a capture-tooling gap closed. All eight linked sources re-fetched and compared against this page: the Academic Conduct and Discipline PDF (re-read in full — Effective Date 06/28/2021, unchanged), the Undergraduate Catalog's Academic Conduct digest, the Libraries AI Guide, the CETL Syllabus Template docx, the Blackboard SafeAssign PDF, both UM Testing Center pages, and the University Ombuds site — every quotation verbatim and unchanged. TOOLING NOTE, not a page defect: this repository's capture pipeline had never actually captured the Academic Conduct and Discipline policy's own text — the "Policy Details" page it captured is only a metadata listing whose narrative is itself a PDF link, and nearly every section-02 quotation rests on that PDF. The recipe now captures the PDF directly as its own source. Two other recipe entries were also corrected: the CETL Syllabus Template link, previously marked as serving no readable body, in fact serves a .docx file directly and now captures as one; and the Undergraduate Catalog's Conduct page, previously blocked, now captures via a browser session. Two quotations in the ombuds docket row are marked with the site's bracket convention this pass, not changed in substance: UM's page lists "Handle academic complaints, such as grade appeals" and "Participate in any formal grievance process" as bare list items under a heading naming what the office does not do, and this page's prose supplies the negation the list format implies, now marked with a bracketed does-not rather than folded into the quotation marks unmarked. Detection sweep re-run (named-vendor and category); no AI-writing detector found, absence stands. Office contacts (University Ombuds) re-confirmed unchanged. This is a source re-verification pass, not human review.
2026-09-13 — Editorial review. Carrie Schluter read this page in full against its recorded first-party sources and found no change required. Reviewer: Carrie Schluter (review confirmed 2026-09-13).
2026-09-14 — Internet Archive capture pass; captures requested and confirmed by tools/spn.py, not a human review and not a re-verification of any quotation. Stored and played back this date: the library's academic-integrity guide page (guides.lib.olemiss.edu/c.php?g=1362389&p=10266256), the Ombuds office (ombuds.olemiss.edu), and the two Outreach testing pages for instructors and for UM online testing. Four sources were not stored and rest seven days before they are eligible again: the catalog's conduct regulations (catalog.olemiss.edu/academics/regulations/conduct) and the policy directory's ShowDetails record, neither of which Save Page Now would capture; the library guide's ld.php document, whose capture would not play back; and the Blackboard SafeAssign support PDF, which timed out at the gateway. The failures are recorded as the states the tool reported them in, not as a single undifferentiated miss.
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: Policy Details | University of Mississippi → https://web.archive.org/web/20260917152149/https://policies.olemiss.edu/ShowDetails.jsp?istatPara=1&policyObjidPara=10817696; University Ombuds | Ole Miss → https://web.archive.org/web/20260917152219/https://olemiss.edu/ombuds/; Faculty Resources - Artificial Intelligence Guide - Library Guides at University of Mississippi Libraries → https://web.archive.org/web/20260917152315/https://guides.lib.olemiss.edu/c.php?g=1362389&p=10266256; 2025-26 CETL Syllabus Template & Suggested Language (docx) → https://web.archive.org/web/20260917152416/https://guides.lib.olemiss.edu/ld.php?content_id=77996771; Instructors | UM Testing Center | Ole Miss → https://web.archive.org/web/20260917152537/https://www.outreach.olemiss.edu/testing/instructors.html; UM Online Testing | UM Testing Center | Ole Miss → https://web.archive.org/web/20260917152656/https://www.outreach.olemiss.edu/testing/um-online-testing.html; Academic Conduct and Discipline (ACA.AR.600.001) — active PDF → https://web.archive.org/web/20260917152849/https://policies.olemiss.edu/GetPdfActive?pol=10817696&ver=active&file=10817696_active_20210628.pdf&cod=ACA.AR.600.001. Not captured because the publisher refuses the Archive's fetcher — each of these returns normally to an ordinary browser, so the source is unchanged and only the capture is missing: Bb19-Assignments-SafeAssign.pdf (HTTP 200 to the Archive). Source gone. Save Page Now reported these as not found, and a direct fetch from an ordinary browser confirms it — they are recorded here as a finding, not repaired by this pass, which changes no quotation or link: Conduct — catalog.olemiss.edu (HTTP 404).
2026-09-25 — Dead-link repair and source re-verification, run by an automated agent in an attended session; Reviewer: Carrie Schluter (review confirmed 2026-09-25). The Undergraduate Catalog's Academic Conduct address (catalog.olemiss.edu/academics/regulations/conduct) returned HTTP 404 to a cloud crawler and to curl on the host. The catalog now publishes Academic Conduct as a section of its Undergraduate Academic Regulations page (catalog.olemiss.edu/undergraduate-academic-regulations/), where the quoted Law and Pharmacy honor-code sentence was re-verified verbatim. Section 02 and the source map now link there. The capture recipe now reads that page; the hand-read text of the former address was kept under a superseded name in tools/supplied/, so that it cannot stand in for the new source. Every source in this page's capture recipe was re-fetched this date by tools/capture.py on the host (review capture tools/packets/review/olemiss-2026-09-25.txt); the checker reports 3 failures, the same 3 as before this pass, none from the catalog. Detection status unchanged.
2026-10-06 — Internet Archive captures requested by automated capture passes between 2026-09-14 and 2026-09-26 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: ombuds.olemiss.edu → https://web.archive.org/web/20260914161823/https://ombuds.olemiss.edu/; UM Testing Center — Instructors → https://web.archive.org/web/20260914162538/https://outreach.olemiss.edu/testing/instructors.html; UM Catalog — Undergraduate Academic Regulations, Academic Conduct → https://web.archive.org/web/20260926042306/https://catalog.olemiss.edu/undergraduate-academic-regulations/.
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