Generative AI (AI tools that can create text, images, etc.) is so new that UVU administration and faculty are still working out how these resources should and should not be used on campus. As of December 2023, there isn't an overall policy governing how and when AI tools can be used by students. Instead, you should read your course syllabi and talk to your professors about if and how AI can be used in your classes. Some professors might allow you to use AI tools in some circumstances. Some professors might ban them altogether.
Copyleaks—UVU's new plagiarism checker—can check for text generated by AI tools. Check with your professors before you use AI tools to help complete assignments.
UVU's official policy prohibits plagiarism, which is the act of passing off work created by someone else as your own. This includes text, images, music, code, etc. To learn more about the intersection of AI and plagiarism, see AI Tools and Plagiarism.
UVU's official policy also prohibits fabrication: "the use of invented information or the falsification of research or other findings" (Your Responsibility as a Student). Fabrication includes inventing quotes or information not actually in cited sources, including sources in a bibliography that you don't actually quote or paraphrase, and "[s]ubmitting as your own any academic exercises, (e.g., written work, printing, sculpture, etc.) prepared totally or in part by another" (Your Responsibility as a Student).