At Dublin Business School (DBS), generative AI is not prohibited, but each Assignment Brief shows on a scale how far you may use it, you describe any use on the cover page, and the college can hold a viva voce to confirm that the work is yours. Here is what DBS publishes for learners, checked 22 October 2026.
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The Generative AI Usage Policy Statement (version 1.1, approved by the DBS Academic Board on 29 June 2023) opens with a plain sentence: "The use of GenAI tools by students, staff and faculty in DBS is not prohibited." It then commits the college to several steps, one of which is to "Require students to declare how they use GenAI tools in their assessments."
The same statement draws the outer line: work produced wholesale by GenAI and presented as your own is classed as academic misconduct, whatever it was for.
A fictional example of a commentYour conclusion says the measure works, but your interviews mainly show how staff experience it. Could you limit the conclusion to what your data can show?
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Try the free previewThe college's Generative AI guidelines for learners (no date shown on the page) explain that a GenAI assessment scale, adapted from the AI Assessment Scale of Perkins and colleagues, appears in every Assignment Brief. It runs through five levels: no GenAI at all, help with ideas and structure, help with editing, task completion with human evaluation, and full use as a co-pilot. The level set for your assignment is the rule for that assignment.
If the brief does not make it clear, the guidelines tell you to ask the lecturer, and they set a cautious default: "Unless it is explicitly indicated that GenAI tools can be used, it is safer to assume that they are NOT allowed in that assignment."
One rule in the DBS guidelines is stated without exceptions: "Learners should NEVER share assessment questions or instructions with GenAI platforms, sharing assessment tasks with third parties, including GenAI tools, is against College policy and constitutes misconduct." It holds even on assignments where AI use is allowed. The brief, the question and the task instructions stay out of the tool.
DBS does not say whether a draft that quotes the assignment question counts as sharing it. If your title page or introduction repeats the question or the task instructions word for word, treat uploading that draft to any AI tool, Esmond included, as sharing them: ask your lecturer first. If your brief sets the first level of the scale, where GenAI must not be used at any point, do not upload the work to any AI tool at all.
Where AI is allowed, the guidelines ask for a statement on your Assignment Cover Page about how you used it, references in the text and the reference list, and a saved copy of your prompts and outputs, which you may add as an appendix. If your work is ever questioned, that appendix can help the Academic Impropriety Committee understand what you actually did.
The guidelines also deal with proofreading by AI: if a tool rephrases your sentences, do not paste its version into your work, because those words are no longer yours. Questions about what an assignment allows go to your lecturer; questions about how to reference AI go to the College Library.
The Academic Integrity Policy, in Part B of the Quality Assurance Handbook (2026 edition), states: "DBS reserves the right to carry out a viva voce examination for any summative assessment." Where a case arises, a lecturer can also ask for a viva in place of a sitting of the Academic Impropriety Committee.
The policy lists what a viva may cover: confirming that the work is your own, verifying that the research is authentic, showing that you understand what you handed in, and a point worth preparing for: "Establishing that the learner is aware of the wider research field related to their dissertation topic." The same policy counts AI software that completes all or part of an assessment as help from a third party, alongside a friend or a family member, and it reminds learners that a Turnitin similarity score does not show whether an assignment is acceptable.
Esmond evaluates; it does not write. You upload your own draft and get comments in the margin plus a report that shows where your argument, method or use of sources is weaker, and why. It does not write or rewrite your text: it points to the weak spot and offers guidance on how to revise it. Where a comment includes an example, it illustrates a principle; the sentence you submit is one you write yourself.
Dublin Business School has no connection with Esmond and has not endorsed it. Esmond uses language models, so using it counts as AI use. Rules on AI vary by university, programme, module and assignment. Check your module or programme handbook before you upload, and if it is unclear, ask your supervisor or module coordinator and declare the use if your institution asks you to.
This page summarises published institutional guidance and links to the original sources. It is not legal advice and not a ruling on your assignment: what your programme, module or supervisor sets always comes first.
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DBS does not prohibit GenAI tools. Whether you may use one in an assignment depends on the level set in its Assignment Brief, and if nothing is indicated the guidelines say to assume it is not allowed.
Yes. The Academic Integrity Policy says DBS can hold a viva voce for any summative assessment, and for a dissertation it can test whether you know the wider research field around your topic.
No. Dublin Business School has no connection with Esmond and has not endorsed it. Check the level in your brief first, and leave the assignment questions out of anything you upload.
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