{"id":27696,"date":"2026-06-09T08:01:25","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T08:01:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/27696\/"},"modified":"2026-06-09T08:01:25","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T08:01:25","slug":"year-12-students-at-melbournes-mazenod-college-found-cheating-using-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/27696\/","title":{"rendered":"Year 12 students at Melbourne’s Mazenod College found cheating using AI"},"content":{"rendered":"

An all-boys school in Melbourne’s outer east says it has taken action after several students were caught cheating on a Year 12 exam using AI.<\/p>\n

Mulgrave’s Mazenod College said it had recently discovered that some of its Year 12 students had used AI tools in an oral English exam, but would not confirm the exact number.<\/p>\n

“The matter was thoroughly investigated, and all appropriate processes were followed in submitting results to the [Victorian Curriculum and Assessment Authority],” school principal Paul Shannon said.<\/p>\n

Mr Shannon said all the students were spoken to after the incident and their overall marks on the affected assessment were reduced.<\/p>\n

“Written and oral assessment tasks, especially exams, are designed to measure a student’s own understanding and independent thinking,” he said.<\/p>\n

“While the use of AI tools is a growing challenge within all schools, they have no place in assessments and examinations, where every student must be able to demonstrate their own knowledge, independently and fairly.”<\/p>\n

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The Mazenod College students’ marks were reduced after an investigation into the use of AI. (Facebook)<\/p>\n

The Victorian Curriculum and Assessment Authority (VCAA) provides advice to schools about the use of AI, including that using AI tools may be a breach of academic integrity.<\/p>\n

Schools ultimately have to investigate any suspected disallowed use of AI to ensure VCAA rules were not breached.<\/p>\n

VCAA rules state that students must submit work that is all their own, acknowledge all resources used and must not plagiarise or cheat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An all-boys school in Melbourne’s outer east says it has taken action after several students were caught cheating…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":27697,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[1131,25499,1132,25497,4379,4838,25426,260,25498],"class_list":["post-27696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-melbourne","tag-ai","tag-ai-exams","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-cheating","tag-high-school","tag-investigation","tag-mazenod-college","tag-melbourne","tag-year-12-students"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27696\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}