School policy · checked October 19, 2026

Accused of using AI at National University? Its own rules, on the record.

Where this school stands on detectors

Score alone is not enough

Faculty guidance says Turnitin's AI detector is unreliable and its score alone cannot be used to charge a student with an academic integrity violation.

“The Artificial Intelligence (AI) detection software tool in Turnitin (and other AI detectors) is unreliable. The score alone is not an indication that AI was used... and can not be used to charge a student with an Academic Integrity Violation”

Status source: the school’s own published page — read it · checked October 19, 2026.

Your window — being double-checked

We could not verify National University's response or appeal window from published text we trust, so we do not print one. Ask the conduct office for your date in writing today, and meanwhile plan on the checker's planning deadline — five business days from your notice — rather than waiting on any website, including this one.

Run the free checker for the planning date and your evidence order.

How your case gets decided

Most schools decide these cases at a hearing or a formal meeting — a panel, an honor council, or a conduct officer. Your notice letter names yours; if it doesn't, ask the conduct office in writing who decides and in what format.

What this means for your answer

National University's own guidance says a score cannot carry a case alone. Hold the school to its own rule — politely, by quoting it — and make the rest of the case about your evidence binder, which is what a panel can actually weigh.

Next steps: count your deadline in the free checker, build from the evidence list, and compare schools in the full table.

Included in the $39 MyWorkMyWords Kit

  • The evidence binder builder: the exact order to assemble version history, drafts, research trail, and earlier writing into one file a panel can follow in five minutes
  • Appeal statement templates: the fill-in structure for 'I wrote this, and here is the trail' — for a first answer, a formal appeal, and a score-only case where the school's own rules bar the score as sole proof
  • Hearing scripts: what to say when they read the score aloud, the questions to ask about the report, and how to answer 'did you use AI?' without talking yourself into a corner
  • The deadline tracker: your window, your hearing date, and the 'what to save from today' checklist so nothing expires while you build the file
  • The escalation page: the signs your case has outgrown a $39 kit — expulsion on the table, a license at stake — and how to hand a lawyer a file that is already built

Get the MyWorkMyWords Kit — $39

One payment of $39. No subscription. The kit is a web page you can return to and print — the evidence binder builder, appeal statement templates, hearing scripts, and deadline tracker, built for a student answering an accusation this week.