Red
No AI
Do the work without AI tools. This is for the skills you still need to own yourself: drafting from scratch, closed-book checks, safety-critical steps, or anything where the product has to be the student’s unaided thinking.
The rule
One color per assignment.
One color per assignment.
If there is no color, it is red.
We use this in class because blanket “no AI” and blanket “AI is fine” both fail. Teachers decide assignment by assignment. Students should not have to guess. If an assignment is unmarked, treat it as red: no AI.
Yellow
AI for support
AI may help with support work: clarifying a concept, suggesting a structure, checking a draft. Cite the prompts you used so the teacher can see what the tool was asked to do. The thinking still has to be yours.
Green
AI as co-pilot
AI may sit in the workflow if the student substantiates the use, edits what comes back, fact-checks it, and can explain the result in their own words. Unedited paste is not green. Green is earned by the human work around the tool.