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The Four Boxes Every Assessment Now Needs

Manchester's four-category AI assessment framework—Prohibited through Integrated—does not standardise what universities think about AI in assessment. It standardises the disclosure. What changed in September 2026 was that an implicit and often unspoken assumption buried in every syllabus became a mandatory, published decision visible to every student before they submitted. For a sizeable number of academics, classifying their assessments was the first time they had been asked what those assessments were actually measuring.