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This article is written for Google Workspace for Education Administrators.

In this blog post, we will explore effective strategies and features within Google Classroom that can help Prevent Students from Turning In Assignment Late in Google Classroom.

In today's digital age, educators have embraced the efficiency and convenience of online platforms like Google Classroom for managing assignments. However, a persistent challenge remains - late submissions. 

Your teachers may be frustrated to score late assignments since Google Classroom provides students an option to turn in assignments late and students tend to turn in assignment very late. Teachers may prefer not having this option at all. That said, Google Classroom does not offer your teachers the option to turn off late assignments so as to reduce their burden to manage late assignments.

This article shows how Safe Doc disables the option for students to turn in assignments late. If you have yet to install Safe Doc, please get a 30-days trial .

What are the changes?

In the students' assignment view, students can see and click the Turn in button or Mark as done button whether they miss the due date set by the teacher. The button is displayed as Mark as done if no assignment work file is attached and displayed as Turn in if at least one assignment work file is attached.

Safe Doc disables these Turn in and Mark as done buttons if the student missed the deadline. The system disables the tooltip for students, explaining that late submissions are not allowed.

If a student does not miss the due date, or if the teacher hasn't set a due date, then the system does not disable these buttons.

How to set up in Safe Doc

First of all, you have deployed Safe Doc and read Safe Doc Configuration .

The policy manages the blocking of late assignment submissions.

BlockClassroomAssignmentLateSubmission . The policy is by default OFF. Add and set the policy value to true to turn on the blocking in your Safe Doc extension policy configuration.

Note that the blocking enforcement applies to all students in an OU for which Safe Doc is installed.

By setting clear expectations, utilizing Google Classroom's features effectively, providing timely feedback, and implementing a fair late work policy, educators can significantly reduce the occurrence of late assignments.

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Along with instruction and assessment, assignments form the foundation of the teaching and learning process. They provide opportunities for students to practice the skills and apply the knowledge that they have been taught in a supportive environment. It also helps the teacher gauge how well students are learning the material and how close they are to mastery.

Because of the nature of assignments, managing them can get hectic. That’s why its best to use a platform like Google Classroom to help you manage assignments digitally. In today’s tip, we will discuss 48 ways that you can use Classroom to manage student assignments.

• Assignment Status – Easily check how many students turned in an assignment as well as how many assignments have been graded by going to the Classwork tab and clicking on the title of the assignment.
• Assign to Multiple Classes – Post an assignment to multiple classes by using the “for” drop-down menu when creating an assignment.
• Brainstorm – Use Google Docs, Sheets, Slides, or Drawings to brainstorm for class assignments.
• Calendar of Due Dates – Link a Google Calendar with due dates for assignments, tests, and other important dates into Classroom.
• Check Homework – Classroom makes checking homework easy with a quick glance at the assignment page. If more detailed grading is needed, just access the grading interface for the assignment.
• Choice Boards – Give students a choice in how they demonstrate what they know by creating a choice board and uploading it as an assignment. Choice boards allow students to choose between several assignments and can be created directly in Classroom, using Google Docs, or with third-party apps.
• Co-Teach Classes – Invite others to co-teach in your Classroom. Each teacher is able to create assignments and post announcements for students.
• Create Questions Before a Socratic Seminar – Create an assignment for students to develop questions before a Socratic seminar. During the collaborative process, students can eliminate duplicate questions.
• Detention Assignment Sheet – Create a detention assignment sheet using Google Docs. The assignment sheet can then be shared with the detention teacher and individual students privately through Classroom.
• Differentiate Assignments – Assign work to individual students or groups of students in Classroom.
• Differentiate by Product – Differentiate by product in Classroom by providing a challenge, variety, or choice or by using a continuum with assignments.
• Digital Portfolios – Students can create digital portfolios of their work by uploading documents, pictures, artifacts, etc. to Classroom assignments.
• Directions Document – Use Google Docs to create instruction documents for assignments in Classroom.
• Distribute Student Work/Homework – Use Classroom to distribute student assignments or homework to all students, groups of students, or individual students.
• Diversify Student Submissions – Create alternative submission options for students through the assignment tool. For example, one group of students may be required to submit a Google Doc while another group is required to submit a Slides presentation.
• Do-Now Activities – Use Classroom to post Do-Now Activities.
• Draft Assignments – Save posts as drafts until they are ready for publishing.
• Feedback Before Student Submits – Provide feedback to students while their assignment is still a work in progress instead of waiting until submission. This will help the student better understand assignment expectations.
• Get Notified of Late Assignments – Select notification settings to get notified each time an assignment is turned in late.
• Global Classroom – Partner with international teachers to create a co-teaching classroom without borders where students can work on collaborative assignments.
• Graphic Organizers – Upload graphic organizers for students to collaborate on assignments and projects.
• Group Collaboration – Assign multiple students to an assignment to create a collaborative group. Give students editing rights to allow them access to the same document.
• HyperDocs – Create and upload a hyperdoc as an assignment.
• Link to Assignments – Create links to assignments not created in Classroom.
• Link to Class Blog – Provide the link to a class blog in Classroom.
• Link to Next Activity – Provide a link to the next activity students must complete after finishing an assignment.
• Make a Copy for Each Student – Chose “make a copy for each student” when uploading assignment documents to avoid students having to share one copy of the document. When a copy for each student is made, Classroom automatically adds each student’s name to the document and saves it to the Classroom folder in Google Drive.
• Move to Top/Bottom – Move recent assignments to the top of the Classwork feed so students can find new tasks more quickly.
• Multiple File Upload – Upload multiple files for an assignment in one post.
• Naming Conventions for Assignments – Create a unique naming system for assignments so they can be easily found in the Classroom folder in Google Drive.
• Offline Mode – Change settings to allow students to work in offline mode if internet connections are weak. Once an internet connection is established, students can upload assignments to Classroom.
• One Student One Sheet – In Google Sheets, assign one tab (sheet) per student for the student to complete the assignment.
• One Student One Slide – In Google Slides, assign one slide to each student to present findings on a topic or to complete an assignment.
• Organize Student Work – Google Classroom automatically creates calendars and folders in Drive to keep assignments organized.
• Peer Tutors – Assign peer tutors to help struggling students with assignments.
• Protect Privacy – Google Classroom only allows class members to access assignments. Also, it eliminates the need to use email, which may be less private than Classroom.
• Provide Accommodations – Provide accommodations to students with disabilities in Google Classroom by allowing extra time to turn in assignments, using text to speech functions, and third-party extensions for colored overlays.
• Reorder Assignments by Status – Instead of organizing assignments by student first or last name, organize them by status to see which students have or have not turned in work.
• Reuse Posts – Reuse post from prior assignments or from other Classrooms.
• See the Process – Students don’t have to submit their assignments for you to see their work. When you chose “make a copy for each student” for assignments, each student’s work can be seen in the grading tool, even if it’s not submitted. Teachers can make comments and suggestions along the way.
• Share Materials – Upload required materials such as the class syllabus, rules, procedures, etc. to a Class Resources Module, or upload assignment materials within the assignment.
• Share Resources – Create a resource list or a resource module for students.
• Share Solutions to an Assignment – Share solutions to an assignment with a collaborator or students after all assignments have been turned in.
• Stop Repeating Directions – By posting a directions document to assignments, the need to continually repeat directions is lessened, if not eliminated altogether. Keep in mind that some students will still need directions to read orally or clarified.
• Student Work Collection – Use Classroom to collect student work from assignments.
• Summer Assignments – Create summer assignments for students through Classroom.
• Templates – Create templates for projects, essays, and other student assignments.
• Track Assignments Turned In – Keep track of which students turned in assignments by going to the grading tool.

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Note: This post contains screenshots from the old version of Google Classroom. This works essentially the same except that you will now go to the Classwork page to click on the “Create” button. In the upper right, click on the arrow to the right of the “Assign” button to choose “Schedule”

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Ran into a small snag I wonder if you could lend some insight/workflow direction. With a draft that has a due date of tomorrow, the schedule option doesn’t seem to be an option. Even when I take out a due entirely it seems to not like it. The only way I can seem to make it work is if I start with reuse post first even though it never actually posted. Other drafts that have expired due dates seem to be ok. Thoughts.

Your district does not have rapid release turned on. Wait a couple of weeks.

Hi Alice! I’m hoping you can help me. Sometimes, like right now, “schedule” is grayed out and it won’t let me schedule my assignment. What am I doing wrong?

You have it selected for multiple classes.

Is it possible to schedule a post for ALL classes at the same time?

You can only post to at most 10 classes at a time I think.

Hi, great post! But I’m experiencing problems with setting a time for a scheduled assignment. Everytime I put in my numbers, the timer resets to 08.00…? Any ideas?

I do not have this issue. Not sure what would cause that.

I am experiencing the same issue. I set the assignment and went back to edit and set a time for submission. The time says “optional”. When I type a time it automatically sets to 11.59 PM. (Unlike the date where it offers you a calendar, it doesn’t allow you to select an option from a clock.) So…any ideas?

The time is NOT optional, it is 11:59 which is messed up. We should not have KIDS (or anyone… where is the pedagogy behind midnight due dates?) turning in things at midnight. Please be mindful and intentionally set the time in Google Classroom IF you set a due date. Other choice is to put the due date in the description rather than set it in Classroom.

Why is “Schedule” not highlighted as an option when I make a new assignment? I am able to “Save Draft” or “Assign” but cannot choose “Schedule”.

Because you’ve already assigned it or are assigning it to multiple classes.

Is it possible to have an assignment in google classroom no longer available to students after the deadline? As of now, students are submitting it after I’ve graded and saying, “I turned that in”. Since it only says, “submitted late” I cannot argue with them.

You can argue with that. You reviewed work, it wasn’t there. End of discussion. That being said, I recommend leaving a note in Google Classroom when work is not submitted saying “I reviewed work on Tuesday at 3pm and your work was not available.”

great site and thread. I scheduled an assignment and related materials, and now want to change the date of the scheduled posting, but can’t figure out where to find it.

Hello, I have an assignment I “scheduled” realized I made a mistake on the dates and need to change the scheduled time….I do not see an area that lets me edit the date and time? Do I really need to delete the assignment and start over?

You can edit the time. It’s a stripe along the top of the edit screen. Click on the time to edit.

Alice – Disregard my previous query – I figured it out!

Just wondering if you can get a link to a scheduled assignment, if you wanted to include it in a hyperdoc before it is assigned.

You can not

Is there any way to have google classroom not let a student move on to the next assignment until they have completed the previous one?

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How to Turn in Assignments in Google Classroom

Lee Stanton Lee Stanton is a versatile writer with a concentration on the software landscape, covering both mobile and desktop applications as well as online technologies. Read more December 21, 2023

Google Classroom makes it easier for teachers to create, share, and grade assignments. Better still, students can easily submit their work on the platform.

If you’re wondering how to submit assignments on Google Classroom, you’re in the right place. This article will explain everything you need to know.

Google Classroom – How to Turn in Assignments

Google Classroom lets students submit assignments via various devices such as PCs, Android phones, and iPhones. The platform also offers an organized way for teachers to collect and view submissions.

Here’s how to turn in assignments on Google Classroom:

Turn in Assignments on Mobile

It’s easy to submit Google Classroom assignments using a mobile device, whether you’re working with an Android or iPhone. The procedure is generally the same for both systems.

To submit a file, include a Google Drive file, link, or photo from your camera roll. Alternatively, you can create a new Google Doc, Slide, Sheet, or PDF. In addition to its other features, the Classroom app has an inbuilt scanner that allows you to convert several pictures into one PDF for assignment submission.

• The mobile app allows learners to submit their homework assignments before the due date using the core functionality of their smartphones. Open the Classroom app, go to the assignment, and attach your work. Tap on turn-in to submit the completed assignment and change its status to “turned-in.”

Attach Files From Google Drive

Here’s how to attach a file from Google Drive to your Google Classroom assignment:

Now you can add images, spreadsheets, videos, and documents from your files located from Google Dive straight into Google classroom assignments. This will save you from having to download them first and then re-upload to access your work.

To Attach a New Google Doc

To attach a new Google document, slide presentation, spreadsheet, or drawing to your assignment, do the following:

This way, you can generate many Google files. Al of which can be included as attachments in one Classroom task to keep your work organized.

Attach a Link to Your Assignment Submission in Google Classroom

You can attach a link to a website or other online resource for your assignment submission in Google Classroom. This allows you to provide supplementary materials from the web to support your work.

The link will now be attached to your assignment submission. Your teacher can click the link to access the online resource you provided

Submit an Assigned Document

If the teacher attaches a document with your name in the title, that should be your personal copy to edit and review. You can click “Turn in” after your teacher reviews your progress.

Once submitted, this changes an assignment’s status from Not Done to Done.

How do you locate the specific assignment you want to turn in?

To find a particular assignment in Google Classroom, click on your class from the main page. This will bring up all materials. Under the Classwork tab, you can find the assignment. Assignments are listed with the most recent at the top. Clicking on the title or image shows where your work can be added.

How do you submit an assigned document in Google Classroom?

When assigned a document by your teacher, open it from the assignment page by clicking on the image of your name. Edit the file and save changes before turning it in either through the Turn in button on the doc or the submission page of assignments.

How can I submit my assignment using a mobile device such as an Android or an iPhone?

To turn in the assignment using a smartphone, launch the Classroom app from your mobile device, go to the specific assignment, attach any files, and click on Turn in .

Where are the directions for the assignments posted on Google Classroom?

Open the Classwork page and go to Assignments. Once you have done so, assignment details will pop up. Above it is a link entitled View instructions which will lead you to a full set of teacher’s instructions.

Can I attach files from Google Drive to an assignment in Google Classroom?

To attach Google Drive files, click Add or create under Your work . Go to Google Drive , then pick your file. Finally, click Add so that you can have the file attached.

The Key to Successful Assignment Submissions

The efficiency of Google Classroom depends on how well you navigate the submission process. Students who want to complete their assignments in good time will benefit most from this process. After all, handing in assignments on time is part of being a good student who values the teacher’s feedback.

Are you a student or an educator? Have you been impressed with Google Classroom? Let us know in the comments section.

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6 Tips for Managing Assignments and Submissions in Google Classroom

Patricia umhafer pd specialist, blog on november 30 2021.

Google Classroom is a fantastic platform for disseminating information as well as for pushing out assignments and receiving submissions. However, if not organized, it can be very overwhelming for both teachers and students. Here are some tips for managing and organizing those assignments and submissions.

• Understand and use Drive folders First, let’s take a second to clarify how Classroom Drive folders work. When a class is created in Classroom, a Drive folder for that class is simultaneously created. Only the teacher has access to this folder, so anything added to the folder will not be seen by the students. Similarly, when students are added to the class, a personal drive folder is created for each of them. The teacher does not have access to the student folder, only to the documents turned in. When a student submits an assignment digitally, Classroom automatically creates a subfolder in the teacher’s class drive folder, pre-labeled with the name of the assignment. All student submissions will be stored in this folder, labeled with the student name. This is great for organization!  From there, you can choose to leave it and have the folder organized by assignment, or move the submission to a folder shared with your student.
• Create naming conventions Creating a naming convention helps you and your students to easily identify what the document is, and makes it easily searchable. I recommend using the following: Unit or Period number – Name of Unit – Type of Document .  A document using this naming convention might look something like this:  “2nd Period ELA – Poetry – e.e.cummings Reading”. Of course, it is always best for you to create something you can remember and your students will understand, so feel free to use any naming convention that works best for you, just remember to keep it consistent. 
• Number assignments By numbering assignments, you are now giving students a quick reference. Instead of typing out or saying the whole title, you can just say, “please see and turn in assignment #5.”  This will also help you keep track of what has been turned in.  You can choose to number just the assignments that will be turned in, or all assignments.  
• Create topics   Creating topics in Google Classroom is like creating folders in Google Drive. By creating a “Week” topic, students can easily see what is expected of them for the week. Another suggestion is to create a “Day” topic. In the “Day” topic, you can put things like attendance forms, Do Nows, exit tickets, and anything else the student will need that day. Other suggestions are creating unit topics, assignment type topics, or subject topics. 
• Disable stream assignment alerts Another great tip is to disable the assignment alerts in the stream. You can do this by going to the settings gear and selecting “Classwork On The Stream” and “Hide Notifications”.  This will keep the stream clear and you can use it just for class announcements. Of course, make sure to remind your students to check the “Classwork” tab, or pin that as an announcement on the top of the stream.
• Use due dates The last tip is to create due dates. If you set a due date, after that date has passed, students will no longer be able to edit or submit the assignment. This prevents you from receiving late assignments or constant edits. This is also a great way to set clear expectations and accountability.

By keeping assignments and submissions organized, you will be saving you and your students’ time and it will help keep expectations clear.  Be sure to check out our accompanying OTIS course, Managing submissions and Assignments in Google Classroom for resources and tips to get you started.

For more tips, tricks, and tools for teaching in and out of the classroom, check out more articles on the Teq Talk blog.

We also offer virtual professional development, training, and remote learning support for educators with OTIS for educators . Explore the technology, tools, and strategies that can spark student success — no matter where teaching or learning are happening.

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Sync Missing and Late from Google Classroom

We observed that many teachers manually enter “missing” into TeacherEase when students don’t hand in their work.  This seems like a lot of labor, and we thought it was an area of improvement for our system.  So we added the ability for TeacherEase to automatically pull in missing and late statuses from Google Classroom.  Let’s describe how it works.

When teachers create assignments in Google Classroom, they give it a due date/time.  As students hand in their work, Google notifies TeacherEase, and we mark it “handed-in” in TeacherEase.  Notice in the screenshot below, 3 students have handed in their assignments, but 2 have not.

We check Google shortly after an assignment’s due date/time to find students who haven’t handed in their work.  For any student who has NOT yet handed in work (and the due date/time has passed), we’ll mark the work as “missing.”  This is shown as the magnifying glass in TeacherEase.  Their score will be blank, and it will not affect their average.  In the screenshot below, notice two students who haven’t handed in their work.

If some students eventually hand in missing work after the deadline, we’ll change their status from “missing” to “handed-in.”  We’ll also mark it as “late.”  In the screenshot below, notice Wanda Bonham handed in missing work.

When teachers grade work in Google Classroom, scores will flow back into TeacherEase, as usual.  Notice that all the students who’ve handed in work now have a score (and Wanda's work is still late).

By default, missing work will have a blank score in TeacherEase, which does not affect students’ grades.  At some point, teachers may want to give scores to missing work.  This could be a zero, or some other score (many districts have minimum score policies to prevent zeros from being overly punitive).  TeacherEase has long supported features to “Mass Edit Scores” and “Mark Missing as Zero.”  This makes it easy to push scores to a group of students with a few keystrokes.

If you give a zero to missing work, you’ll see the magnifying glass turn red.  This clarifies that missing work has been marked as zero.  You can see this for Keith Brown below.

If a student with missing work eventually hands it into Google Classroom, TeacherEase will be updated.  The “missing” status will be removed, the score will stay, and “late” will be applied.  

When students hand in late work, we’ll notify teachers with the TeacherEase Newsfeed.  Teachers can choose to also be notified in the TeacherEase mobile app or by email.  This can be configured in Notification Settings.

When the teacher enters a score for the work in Google Classroom, the score will flow into TeacherEase and overwrite the zero (or other low score).  The end result will be student work with a score that’s marked late.

The process described above is pretty common for teachers, and we hope the majority of our users like it.  We do understand that some teachers may use a different process, however.  So the new import of missing/late statuses is optional.  If the feature doesn’t work for you, no problem, it’s easy to turn off.  Just uncheck the checkbox in Google Classroom Setup, and we’ll stop updating missing/late statuses.

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by Michelle Boyd Waters, M.Ed.  

How To Submit Late Work To Google Classroom

November 11, 2015 in  Pedagogy

Even better, students can also resubmit revised work or late work. That said, there’s a trick to submitting that work without it getting lost in the Interwebs, since Classroom doesn’t send a notification when students turn work in.

Click the image link below for the solution.

http://www.alicekeeler.com/teachertech/2015/11/09/google-classroom-submitting-late-work/

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About the author 

Michelle Boyd Waters, M.Ed.

I am a secondary English Language Arts teacher, a University of Oklahoma student working on my doctorate in Instructional Leadership and Academic Curriculum with an concentration in English Education and co-Editor of the Oklahoma English Journal. I am constantly seeking ways to amplify students' voices and choices.

Providing student engagement signals for Google Drive file attachments in Google Classroom

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• From the Classwork page: The number of students who haven’t edited attachments for assignments. 
• From the student work page on individual assignments: When the attachments were last edited by each student. 
• Quickly see whether students have started on their assigned work 
• Provide timely interventions like sending reminders to the class or individual students 

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Why you’d use it , additional details, getting started .

• Admins: There is no admin control for this feature. 
• End users:  
• Teachers can view edit activity for a Drive attachment associated with a student submission by going to the Student work page and viewing submissions with Drive files attached. 
• Visit the Help Center to learn more about viewing student engagement on assignments with Drive attachments.  

Rollout pace 

• Rapid Release and Scheduled Release domains : Extended rollout (potentially longer than 15 days for feature visibility) starting on August 7, 2024, with expected completion by end of August, 2024. 

Availability 

• A Google Workspace for Education Plus license is required to access this feature for educators. Learn more about assigning licenses in the Help Center. 

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• Google Workspace Admin Help: Turn a service on or off for Google Workspace users
• Google Help: View student engagement on assignments with Drive attachments 

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How to cite ChatGPT

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We, the APA Style team, are not robots. We can all pass a CAPTCHA test , and we know our roles in a Turing test . And, like so many nonrobot human beings this year, we’ve spent a fair amount of time reading, learning, and thinking about issues related to large language models, artificial intelligence (AI), AI-generated text, and specifically ChatGPT . We’ve also been gathering opinions and feedback about the use and citation of ChatGPT. Thank you to everyone who has contributed and shared ideas, opinions, research, and feedback.

In this post, I discuss situations where students and researchers use ChatGPT to create text and to facilitate their research, not to write the full text of their paper or manuscript. We know instructors have differing opinions about how or even whether students should use ChatGPT, and we’ll be continuing to collect feedback about instructor and student questions. As always, defer to instructor guidelines when writing student papers. For more about guidelines and policies about student and author use of ChatGPT, see the last section of this post.

Quoting or reproducing the text created by ChatGPT in your paper

If you’ve used ChatGPT or other AI tools in your research, describe how you used the tool in your Method section or in a comparable section of your paper. For literature reviews or other types of essays or response or reaction papers, you might describe how you used the tool in your introduction. In your text, provide the prompt you used and then any portion of the relevant text that was generated in response.

Unfortunately, the results of a ChatGPT “chat” are not retrievable by other readers, and although nonretrievable data or quotations in APA Style papers are usually cited as personal communications , with ChatGPT-generated text there is no person communicating. Quoting ChatGPT’s text from a chat session is therefore more like sharing an algorithm’s output; thus, credit the author of the algorithm with a reference list entry and the corresponding in-text citation.

When prompted with “Is the left brain right brain divide real or a metaphor?” the ChatGPT-generated text indicated that although the two brain hemispheres are somewhat specialized, “the notation that people can be characterized as ‘left-brained’ or ‘right-brained’ is considered to be an oversimplification and a popular myth” (OpenAI, 2023).

OpenAI. (2023). ChatGPT (Mar 14 version) [Large language model]. https://chat.openai.com/chat

You may also put the full text of long responses from ChatGPT in an appendix of your paper or in online supplemental materials, so readers have access to the exact text that was generated. It is particularly important to document the exact text created because ChatGPT will generate a unique response in each chat session, even if given the same prompt. If you create appendices or supplemental materials, remember that each should be called out at least once in the body of your APA Style paper.

When given a follow-up prompt of “What is a more accurate representation?” the ChatGPT-generated text indicated that “different brain regions work together to support various cognitive processes” and “the functional specialization of different regions can change in response to experience and environmental factors” (OpenAI, 2023; see Appendix A for the full transcript).

Creating a reference to ChatGPT or other AI models and software

The in-text citations and references above are adapted from the reference template for software in Section 10.10 of the Publication Manual (American Psychological Association, 2020, Chapter 10). Although here we focus on ChatGPT, because these guidelines are based on the software template, they can be adapted to note the use of other large language models (e.g., Bard), algorithms, and similar software.

The reference and in-text citations for ChatGPT are formatted as follows:

• Parenthetical citation: (OpenAI, 2023)
• Narrative citation: OpenAI (2023)

Let’s break that reference down and look at the four elements (author, date, title, and source):

Author: The author of the model is OpenAI.

Date: The date is the year of the version you used. Following the template in Section 10.10, you need to include only the year, not the exact date. The version number provides the specific date information a reader might need.

Title: The name of the model is “ChatGPT,” so that serves as the title and is italicized in your reference, as shown in the template. Although OpenAI labels unique iterations (i.e., ChatGPT-3, ChatGPT-4), they are using “ChatGPT” as the general name of the model, with updates identified with version numbers.

The version number is included after the title in parentheses. The format for the version number in ChatGPT references includes the date because that is how OpenAI is labeling the versions. Different large language models or software might use different version numbering; use the version number in the format the author or publisher provides, which may be a numbering system (e.g., Version 2.0) or other methods.

Bracketed text is used in references for additional descriptions when they are needed to help a reader understand what’s being cited. References for a number of common sources, such as journal articles and books, do not include bracketed descriptions, but things outside of the typical peer-reviewed system often do. In the case of a reference for ChatGPT, provide the descriptor “Large language model” in square brackets. OpenAI describes ChatGPT-4 as a “large multimodal model,” so that description may be provided instead if you are using ChatGPT-4. Later versions and software or models from other companies may need different descriptions, based on how the publishers describe the model. The goal of the bracketed text is to briefly describe the kind of model to your reader.

Source: When the publisher name and the author name are the same, do not repeat the publisher name in the source element of the reference, and move directly to the URL. This is the case for ChatGPT. The URL for ChatGPT is https://chat.openai.com/chat . For other models or products for which you may create a reference, use the URL that links as directly as possible to the source (i.e., the page where you can access the model, not the publisher’s homepage).

Other questions about citing ChatGPT

You may have noticed the confidence with which ChatGPT described the ideas of brain lateralization and how the brain operates, without citing any sources. I asked for a list of sources to support those claims and ChatGPT provided five references—four of which I was able to find online. The fifth does not seem to be a real article; the digital object identifier given for that reference belongs to a different article, and I was not able to find any article with the authors, date, title, and source details that ChatGPT provided. Authors using ChatGPT or similar AI tools for research should consider making this scrutiny of the primary sources a standard process. If the sources are real, accurate, and relevant, it may be better to read those original sources to learn from that research and paraphrase or quote from those articles, as applicable, than to use the model’s interpretation of them.

We’ve also received a number of other questions about ChatGPT. Should students be allowed to use it? What guidelines should instructors create for students using AI? Does using AI-generated text constitute plagiarism? Should authors who use ChatGPT credit ChatGPT or OpenAI in their byline? What are the copyright implications ?

On these questions, researchers, editors, instructors, and others are actively debating and creating parameters and guidelines. Many of you have sent us feedback, and we encourage you to continue to do so in the comments below. We will also study the policies and procedures being established by instructors, publishers, and academic institutions, with a goal of creating guidelines that reflect the many real-world applications of AI-generated text.

For questions about manuscript byline credit, plagiarism, and related ChatGPT and AI topics, the APA Style team is seeking the recommendations of APA Journals editors. APA Style guidelines based on those recommendations will be posted on this blog and on the APA Style site later this year.

Update: APA Journals has published policies on the use of generative AI in scholarly materials .

We, the APA Style team humans, appreciate your patience as we navigate these unique challenges and new ways of thinking about how authors, researchers, and students learn, write, and work with new technologies.

American Psychological Association. (2020). Publication manual of the American Psychological Association (7th ed.). https://doi.org/10.1037/0000165-000

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