AI policy for QCE schools
An AI policy your school can adopt, with QCAA's academic integrity requirements included.
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What QCAA requires
- From 2026, completing an academic integrity course is a requirement for the QCE. It covers how to represent content created with AI.
- Schools teach students to use AI responsibly and align their assessment policy with QCAA's guidance on AI.
- Schools communicate the consequences of academic misconduct with explicit reference to the use of AI.
Queensland state schools
- The department provides Corella, its own AI tool, for school leaders and teachers.
- Student use of department AI tools in Years 7 to 10 is at the principal's discretion and needs parent consent.
Catholic and independent schools set their own requirements, and the template marks this clause for them to replace.
What the policy covers
- Rationale, purpose, scope and definitions
- Student use of AI, with an AI level for every task
- Staff use of AI
- Assessment and academic integrity, including how suspected misuse is handled
- Privacy, data security and a register of approved tools
- Wellbeing and safety, including deepfakes
- Roles and responsibilities, breaches, related policies and review
- Appendices: the AI Use Scale, a student declaration of AI use, and the tools register
Sources: QCAA, Academic integrity · QCAA, QCE and QCIA handbook 8.1 · Queensland Department of Education, Generative AI in schools · Australian Framework for Generative AI in Schools. The template is general information, not legal advice.
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