Walden University.

Detection status: Turnitin required for coursework, confirmed first-party on Walden's Tech Support page (the Code of Conduct itself only says "antiplagiarism application… of Walden's choosing"); no first-party statement of an enabled AI-writing indicator; Generative-AI misuse addressed through faculty verification and required interaction documentation, not a detection score
Office in these sources: Office of Student Affairs — no address or phone stated in these sources · studentaffairs@mail.waldenu.edu (general) · codeofconduct@mail.waldenu.edu (Code of Conduct interpretation) · waldenu.edu — University Contacts
Ombuds or advocacy office: Ombuds Services (Office of Student Affairs) — ombuds@mail.waldenu.edu, per Walden's University Contacts page. The office's own description of its role was published on a Walden guides page that required a student/alumni or staff login to view, and it was never read here; as of Sep 25, 2026 that address redirects to Walden's public home page and no public successor was located, so no institutional descriptor of the office is quoted here. · waldenu.edu — University Contacts
Sources last checked: Sep 25, 2026

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

Walden University's published sources on AI detection and academic integrity, quoted in brief and linked below. These are potentially relevant official sources, not a determination of which one governs any case — the Student Handbook's Code of Conduct (Section 3, Student Conduct and Responsibilities) is the governing disciplinary text; Walden's separately published "Statement on the Use of AI Tools" is institutional guidance describing expectations and resources, not itself the disciplinary text; and individual course syllabi, program manuals, and capstone checklists may add rules. Confirm applicability with the institution. Any dates or deadlines are quoted from the sources, not a deadline calculation performed for you.

01Detection status

What is documented — and what isn't

The Student Handbook's Code of Conduct, in its Academic Integrity section (Student Conduct and Responsibilities, Section 3; retrieved Sep 2, 2026; no modification date stated on the page), requires an automated check of student work but does not name the tool:

"Student submissions will be routinely searched for offending material by an online originality check program." "Student work is monitored for evidence of plagiarism, using an antiplagiarism application, database, or service of Walden's choosing. Students will be required to submit their work to such a service in advance of course assignment deadlines."

Walden's Tech Support page names the tool directly, first-party, under the heading "Turnitin - Plagiarism Checker" (explore.waldenu.edu/tech-support; retrieved Sep 2, 2026):

"Turnitin is a plagiarism tool found in your classroom that you can use to check if any part of your submission matches an existing paper. Go to your classroom's 'Home' area and choose the 'Turnitin Drafts' to check your work before submitting it."

No page located in this review states that Turnitin's AI-writing indicator, or any other AI-writing-detection feature, is enabled at Walden. Every first-party description of Turnitin found here — the Handbook's "originality check program" and "antiplagiarism application," and the Tech Support page's "plagiarism tool" that checks "if any part of your submission matches an existing paper" — describes similarity/originality checking, not AI-writing detection.

The same Code of Conduct addresses generative AI directly, as its own numbered category of academic-integrity violation, alongside plagiarism and cheating:

"Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI). Gen AI are tools that create unique and original text, images, data, code, or other content in response to prompts. AI tools that are not generative, such as those used for spelling, grammar, or formatting support, are outside the scope of this policy. … While Walden supports the responsible use of GenAI as an emerging academic and professional competency, misuse or unethical use is prohibited and may be subject to a Code of Conduct inquiry." "If a student uses GenAI in preparation for an assignment, they must clearly identify, acknowledge, paraphrase and properly attribute all use in their submitted work, following APA's citation guidelines…" "Required Conversations: … Walden's faculty, academic leadership and staff reserve the right to require a conversation before and after a formal academic integrity inquiry to discuss a student's work and to request a copy of the interaction (prompts, content generated) with the GenAI tool to ensure learning outcomes have been met. … Such requests are made to understand the student's process and are neither an accusation nor determination of misconduct."

So GenAI misuse at Walden is verified by attribution requirements and a required conversation with faculty, not by a detector score — a structure similar to the human-verification approach several other institutions in this collection have adopted, though Walden pairs it with an actively required similarity checker rather than disclaiming detection software generally. Walden's separate "Statement on the Use of AI Tools" page (academics.waldenu.edu/artificial-intelligence; retrieved Sep 2, 2026; no modification date stated on the page) restates the transparency expectation for students rather than describing any institutional detection method: "Walden expects transparency in the use of AI tools for academic work. This includes clearly acknowledging when AI has been used in the development of written work and citing AI‑generated content… When quoting or paraphrasing AI output, students should also include the relevant AI input/output transcript in an appendix." That page is guidance, not the disciplinary text; the Code of Conduct's GenAI provision above is what a Code of Conduct inquiry actually applies.

The Code of Conduct's inquiry process names a "text matching detection service" among the tools staff may use once a concern is raised — the same class of tool named elsewhere on the page, not a second, additional product: "they will evaluate the matter and take appropriate measures, which may include, but not limited to, an informal or supportive discussion with the student … the use of a text matching detection service, review of internet or other content sources, or data verification."

The Tech Support page also lists "Grammarly - Grammar Checker" among its classroom tools — "an online grammar checker" students register for with a student email address. That is plain Grammarly, offered for grammar checking; no page located in this review names Grammarly Authorship, the vendor's separate AI-detection and writing-process product, and none of this page's findings should be read as claiming that feature is in use at Walden.

Named-vendor sweep across waldenu.edu, academics.waldenu.edu, explore.waldenu.edu, and the academicanswers.waldenu.edu FAQ pages this session could reach found no reference to Copyleaks, iThenticate, GPTZero, Originality.ai, Winston AI, Crossplag, ZeroGPT, Packback, or Grammarly Authorship, and no reference to Honorlock, Proctorio, Respondus, or Examity. Category sweep: the LMS is Canvas, confirmed by the Tech Support page's own assignment-submission instructions ("Submit An Assignment in My Canvas Classroom"); no AI-detection tool beyond Turnitin was found integrated there. The doctoral/capstone pipeline (Doctoral Learning and Resources, Section 7 of the Handbook, covering the Prospectus, Proposal, Final Study, Form and Style Review, and ProQuest/UMI submission to the institutional repository) documents no separate detection tool for dissertations or doctoral studies; the Code of Conduct's antiplagiarism-service requirement applies to "student work" without a stated exception, so this review found no evidence of a distinct graduate-level vendor, unlike the split some other institutions in this collection document between undergraduate and graduate pipelines. Walden's IT/tech-support catalogue names only Turnitin and Grammarly among classroom tools.

One access limit on this sweep, stated at the scope it affects: Walden's academicguides.waldenu.edu subdomain — which hosts the Writing Center, the Academic Skills Center, and further Office of Student Affairs guide pages — requires a Walden student/alumni or OKTA faculty/staff login to view any page on it, in this session including pages a public search engine indexes as available (such as the Plagiarism Checklist and the Office of Student Affairs: Student Resolutions guide). This is a harder block than the Cloudflare or WAF challenges this collection has otherwise worked around by reading a page in a browser: it is an authentication wall, and this session held no Walden credentials. Nothing on that subdomain could be fetched or read as text; any detection-related content it might add is not reflected in this inventory, and is named as an open item in the change log below.

Sources: Student Conduct and Responsibilities — Section 3, Student Handbook · Tech Support — explore.waldenu.edu · Walden's Statement on the Use of AI Tools · Doctoral Learning and Resources — Section 7, Student Handbook.

02Published process

What Walden's own documents say about how cases proceed

Who may be present: Not stated in the sources reviewed. The Code of Conduct's Inquiry Process, findings, and Appeals provisions (Student Conduct and Responsibilities, Section 3 of the Student Handbook) describe how a matter is investigated, decided, and appealed, but neither that section nor the Petitions, Appeals, Grievances, and Complaints page states whether a student may bring an advisor, support person, or note-taker to any stage of an academic-integrity inquiry, hearing, or appeal, or whether a meeting may be recorded. · Student Conduct and Responsibilities · Petitions, Appeals, Grievances, and Complaints
What follows on the record: “Students who receive a failing course grade as a Code of Conduct sanction, and not as the end result of another sanction, will have an ‘XF’ or ‘XU’ notated on their official transcript.” “All violations and sanctions are recorded in the student’s file which remains permanently on record.” Students dismissed for a Code of Conduct violation whose dismissal is upheld on appeal “are not eligible for readmission.” Disclosure to graduate programs, employers, or licensing boards is not addressed in the sources reviewed; the only disclosure-adjacent provision located is a FERPA confidentiality rule keeping violation and investigation information confidential “except when the university has a legal obligation or legitimate interest to do so, for instance, due to a health or safety emergency, or an articulable and significant threat to the safety or well-being of the student, other students, or members of the school community.” — Student Conduct and Responsibilities, Code of Conduct Process / Records and Confidentiality (Section 3, Student Handbook; retrieved Sep 2, 2026) · Student Conduct and Responsibilities

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

Per the Code of Conduct Process (Student Conduct and Responsibilities, Section 3; retrieved Sep 2, 2026): when an instructor, other faculty, or staff believes in good faith a student may have violated the policy, they evaluate the matter — which "may include, but not limited to, an informal or supportive discussion with the student … interviewing other relevant parties, reviewing documentation, the use of a text matching detection service, review of internet or other content sources, or data verification." If a further review is warranted, the student receives written documentation of the alleged violation and "will have the opportunity to respond in writing to the inquiry and provide additional information if desired within a specified time frame." If the reviewing academic leader, designee, or committee determines "it is more likely than not that the student has violated the code of conduct policy," they issue written findings with "the factual basis for finding a violation" and any resulting sanction, described as "remediation, restorative and accountability outcomes." Possible outcomes range from a warning or an academic-integrity tutorial through a reduced or failing grade, suspension, or dismissal; "[p]revious or multiple code of conduct violations may result in greater accountability sanctions," and "[r]egistration holds may be used for outstanding outcomes (sanctions)."

Appeals: a student may appeal the finding and sanction to their dean or designee, who "must receive a student's written appeal describing the basis for the appeal and documentation that relates to that basis within 30 calendar days of the date of the written report … Late appeals will not be considered." Acceptable grounds are limited to new evidence unavailable at the time of the determination, procedural irregularities that affected the outcome, or a determination or sanction "not reasonable based on the evidence." The dean's decision is final except for academic-integrity violations resulting in dismissal: a student dismissed for an academic-integrity violation may appeal to "a council made up of students, faculty and staff," within 30 calendar days of the dean's decision, may "speak on their own behalf at a hearing before the council," and the council forwards a recommendation to the Provost, whose decision "will be final and not subject to further appeal." Students file this appeal on the "Walden Academic Integrity Dismissal Appeal Form." Nondiscrimination and nonharassment matters (the Code of Conduct's other two categories, alongside academic integrity and professional conduct) are instead routed to a separate process and office; the page states only "Complete process and procedures can be found on the Office of Nondiscrimination and Access website" and lists a contact address, ona@covista.com, for questions. 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
Student Conduct and Responsibilities — Code of Conduct, Academic Integrity, GenAI provision, Inquiry Process, Sanctions, Records, Confidentiality, Appeals (governing text; Section 3 of the Student Handbook)	academics.waldenu.edu/handbook/student-expectations/conduct-responsibilities
Petitions, Appeals, Grievances, and Complaints (Section 3 of the Student Handbook)	academics.waldenu.edu/handbook/student-expectations/petitions-appeals
Walden's Statement on the Use of AI Tools (institutional guidance, not the disciplinary text)	academics.waldenu.edu/artificial-intelligence
Tech Support — Turnitin and Grammarly tool descriptions, Canvas assignment submission	explore.waldenu.edu/tech-support
Doctoral Learning and Resources — capstone/dissertation pipeline (Section 7 of the Student Handbook)	academics.waldenu.edu/handbook/learning-modalities/doctoral-research-resources
What are academic integrity and plagiarism? (FAQ; last updated Jul 3, 2023)	academicanswers.waldenu.edu/faq/72681
University Contacts — Office of Student Affairs and Ombuds Services contact addresses	waldenu.edu/help-center/university-contacts
Getting to Know Walden's Student Affairs — Student Resolution and Judicial Services description	waldenu.edu — Getting to Know Walden's Student Affairs
Ombuds Services / Office of Student Affairs guide page (its own description of the office's role; login-gated when this page was built and never captured as text; as of Sep 25, 2026 the address redirects to explore.waldenu.edu/home, and the Office of Student Affairs guides on the same host require a login)	academicguides.waldenu.edu/academicadvising/supportservices/othersupport (no longer linked)

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

2026-09-02 — Page created. Detection-inventory sweep run first: named-vendor sweep across waldenu.edu, academics.waldenu.edu, explore.waldenu.edu, and the reachable academicanswers.waldenu.edu FAQ pages found no reference to Copyleaks, iThenticate, GPTZero, Originality.ai, Winston AI, Crossplag, ZeroGPT, Packback, or Grammarly Authorship, and no reference to Honorlock, Proctorio, Respondus, or Examity. Category sweep — the LMS (Canvas), the IT/Tech Support catalogue, the doctoral/capstone pipeline (Section 7 of the Student Handbook), and the accessible academic-answers FAQs — found only Turnitin (named first-party on the Tech Support page as the tool behind the Handbook's unnamed "antiplagiarism application… of Walden's choosing") and plain Grammarly (a grammar checker, distinct from the vendor's separate Grammarly Authorship AI-detection product, which was not found on any Walden page). Disqualification check run on that completed inventory: not disqualified — Turnitin-based similarity checking is actively required for coursework ("Students will be required to submit their work to such a service in advance of course assignment deadlines"), and no page located states it has been disabled or recommended against; the finding is that no first-party Walden page states an AI-writing-detection feature (Turnitin's AI-writing indicator or otherwise) is enabled, and that GenAI misuse is instead addressed through required attribution and a required student-faculty conversation, which is a documented finding to publish rather than a basis to exclude the school. Captured first-party this date: the Code of Conduct's Academic Integrity, GenAI, Inquiry Process, Sanctions, Records, Confidentiality, and Appeals text (Student Conduct and Responsibilities, Section 3, read in full via browser), the Petitions, Appeals, Grievances, and Complaints page, the Tech Support page's Turnitin and Grammarly entries and Canvas submission instructions, Walden's Statement on the Use of AI Tools, the Doctoral Learning and Resources page, the "What are academic integrity and plagiarism?" FAQ (last updated Jul 3, 2023), and the University Contacts and "Getting to Know Walden's Student Affairs" pages for the Office of Student Affairs and Ombuds Services contact addresses. Access limit recorded rather than papered over: Walden's academicguides.waldenu.edu subdomain — hosting the Writing Center, Academic Skills Center, and further Office of Student Affairs guide pages, including the Ombuds Services guide that would carry the office's own description of its role — requires a Walden student/alumni or OKTA faculty/staff login to view any page on it. This session held no such credentials; every fetch and every browser navigation to that subdomain redirected to its login page, including a "public=1" URL parameter that did not bypass it. That subdomain's content is therefore not reflected in this page beyond title and link, and the Ombuds Services docket row above carries only the office's name and email from a different, accessible page (University Contacts) rather than any quoted institutional descriptor of the office's independence or confidentiality — a later session with Walden credentials should re-attempt that subdomain and promote or correct the ombuds finding accordingly. One capture-method note, corrected on 2026-09-03: the University Contacts page serves every email address on it through Cloudflare's obfuscation, which renders as a placeholder in any capture that does not decode it. An earlier note here said a plain fetch could not recover the real addresses and that they had to be read in a browser that executes the de-cloaking JavaScript. That was wrong, and the correction matters because it changes what this project can evidence: the encoding is a one-byte XOR carried in the page's own markup, so the plaintext is already in the bytes a plain fetch receives, and decoding it is extraction rather than interpretation. The capture tool now decodes those attributes, and this page's packet holds the addresses mechanically, from the served bytes, rather than by a browser read. Nothing else is paraphrase-pending; the remaining quotations above were read directly on accessible pages, not summarized from a search index. Walden University is a private institution: this page quotes brief excerpts and links originals; it republishes nothing in full. Reviewer: Carrie Schluter (review confirmed 2026-09-03). Internet Archive captures: to be added.

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).

2026-09-17 — 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: University Contacts | Walden University → https://web.archive.org/web/20260917161527/https://www.waldenu.edu/help-center/university-contacts; Student Conduct and Responsibilities - Section 3: Student Expectations and Responsibilities - Academics at Walden University → https://web.archive.org/web/20260917161604/https://academics.waldenu.edu/handbook/student-expectations/conduct-responsibilities; Walden | Tech Support → https://web.archive.org/web/20260917161631/https://explore.waldenu.edu/tech-support; Guidelines for Using AI Tools in Writing and Research - Artificial Intelligence - Academics at Walden University → https://web.archive.org/web/20260917161712/https://academics.waldenu.edu/artificial-intelligence; Doctoral Learning and Resources - Section 7. Learning Modalities and Resources - Academics at Walden University → https://web.archive.org/web/20260917161742/https://academics.waldenu.edu/handbook/learning-modalities/doctoral-research-resources; Petitions, Appeals, Grievances, and Complaints - Section 3: Student Expectations and Responsibilities - Academics at Walden University → https://web.archive.org/web/20260917161928/https://academics.waldenu.edu/handbook/student-expectations/petitions-appeals; What are academic integrity and plagiarism? - Walden University → https://web.archive.org/web/20260917162058/https://academicanswers.waldenu.edu/faq/72681; Getting to Know Walden’s Student Affairs | Walden University → https://web.archive.org/web/20260917162140/https://www.waldenu.edu/why-walden/support-services/resource/getting-to-know-waldens-student-affairs; Walden | Student Success Site → https://web.archive.org/web/20260917162236/https://explore.waldenu.edu/home.

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 Student Success Advising guide page academicguides.waldenu.edu/academicadvising/supportservices/othersupport, cited as the login-gated home of Ombuds Services' own description, no longer exists. That address and the guide's root now redirect to explore.waldenu.edu/home, and the Office of Student Affairs guides on the same host require a login. No public successor was located. Nothing was ever quoted from it, because it was never readable here. The docket and source map now say so, and the address is no longer linked. It was dropped from the capture recipe. 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/walden-2026-09-25.txt); the session-read University Contacts page was not re-read. The page traces with zero failures and the capture was promoted. Detection status unchanged.

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