At IADT Dún Laoghaire, the Institute of Art, Design + Technology, lecturers assess the process behind your work as well as the final product, and where AI is allowed you cite its contribution, which may include the specific tool and its version. If the authenticity of a submission is in doubt, you can be asked for proof of process. Here is what the IADT Academic Integrity Policy (approved by Academic Council in February 2024) says, checked 22 October 2026.
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IADT's Academic Integrity Policy (reference AIP/V1.0, approved by Academic Council on 29 February 2024, in force since March 2024) replaced the earlier Plagiarism Policy and is still the version linked from the student policies page. It has its own section on generative AI. Whether AI may be used is decided by the Faculty, Department, Programme Teams and lecturers, so the rule for your thesis or final project comes from your programme and your brief.
Separate guidelines for academic staff from November 2023 describe how lecturers set this out in the assessment brief; we summarise them in our overview of AI rules in Ireland. This page is about the policy itself, which has more to say about process and verification.
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 policy's advice is direct: "Students are advised to document the process of their work and how they arrived at the outputs submitted." The reason follows in the next line: lecturers look at the learning and the process, not only at the finished product.
In a design, media or research project, much of that record builds up on its own: sketchbooks, drafts, iterations, notes on why you chose one route over another. Keep it, date it, and check that it would let someone else see how the finished piece came about.
Where an assessment specifically allows generative AI, students are required to cite the tool's contribution. The policy continues: "This may include citing the specific tool (and version) used, along with additional content such as prompts used and the process followed." An appendix to the policy also classes AI output as a source that needs a citation.
Art and design students have one more point to watch. The policy asks you to be aware of the licences attached to AI output, which matters when an image, a sound or a piece of code from a tool ends up in a portfolio or in exhibited work.
When there are questions about the authenticity of submitted work, the lecturer discusses this with the student and "may ask for proof of process as a ‘Viva’ (oral defence of the thesis), oral presentation, process walk-through or other means of assessment." Any further investigation is at the lecturer's discretion.
This is where the record from your process pays off. A walk-through goes far more smoothly when you can open your drafts and show each step than when you have to reconstruct them from memory. Students who are under investigation have access to supports throughout, such as the IADT Students' Union.
Written submissions go through the Turnitin tool built into The Hub, IADT's Blackboard environment. The policy reserves the right to use similarity and AI detection tools, and asks staff to keep the limits of those tools in mind.
It also provides for an Investigator role within Registry. At a lecturer's request, through the Head of Department or Programme Chair, a submission can be compared with your own previous submissions for writing style and other technical details. Such a check adds information, but the policy leaves the question of misconduct to the judgement of lecturing staff. In practice, your thesis may be read against the work you handed in earlier in your programme.
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.
IADT 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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The policy reserves the right to use similarity and AI detection tools, Turnitin among them, while asking staff to keep their limits in mind. Whether misconduct happened remains a matter of judgement for lecturing staff.
It is the policy's term for showing how you produced a piece of work, for example in a viva, an oral presentation or a process walk-through, when its authenticity is questioned.
No. IADT has no link with Esmond and has not endorsed it. If your brief does not allow AI, leave Esmond out of that work. If it does, the policy asks you to cite the tool's contribution, so name Esmond and say how you used it.
Official documents, checked 22 October 2026. Quotations are word for word; the rest is our summary. Read the full text at the source.
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