Course syllabi name specific GenAI tools — ChatGPT in 90 of 98 — while institutional guidelines contain no code for specific tools¶

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q2 i? Nearly all syllabi mentioned specific GenAI tools, with ChatGPT most frequent, while the institutional-level code mapping shows no institutional code captured for specific tools. → Amrita Ganguly 2026

Evidence¶

Amrita Ganguly 2026¶

Amrita Ganguly, Aditya Johri, Nora McDonald, Areej Ali, Umama Dewan, and Aayushi Hingle Collier. (2026). A Comparative Analysis of Institutional and Course Generative AI Policies within Higher Education: Implications for Instruction in Computing Education. https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.12296 doi:10.48550/arxiv.2607.12296

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Course syllabus coding of the 98 CS syllabi recorded tool mentions; Table 2 rates the Specific Tools code as low alignment because no code appeared for the institution level guidelines regarding different GenAI tools.

"Nearly all syllabi (N=91) mentioned specific tools; “ChatGPT” (N=90) was mentioned the most, followed by “CoPilot” (N=25)."

Discussion¶

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