The SAGE student guide gives your students a clear, structured process for using generative AI responsibly — from constructing an informed prompt through to reflecting on what they genuinely learned. It is the student-facing equivalent of the six-step SAGE cycle, written in plain language accessible to any undergraduate or postgraduate student regardless of discipline.
The guide covers how to build a prompt from prior knowledge, how to evaluate AI output against authoritative anchors, how to document every decision in a structured log, how to use AI as an auditor of their own reasoning, and how to reflect in a way that builds transferable professional judgement.
A note for educators: These resources are designed for you to deploy — not for students to discover independently. The student guide is the document you hand to students before a SAGE-integrated assessment. The Assurance Guidance Tool helps you design a Defend checkpoint appropriate to your discipline and cohort. The GenAI-101 module provides a structured AI literacy foundation before students encounter SAGE in assessment. All resources can be adapted to your institutional context under CC BY 4.0.