The ubiquitous use and access to Generative Artificial Intelligence (Gen AI) tools like ChatGPT has created significant challenges and opportunities for higher education. Lack of student engagement has been identified as one of the key challenges (Evangelista, 2025). Upholding academic integrity in learning and education requires structural changes of assessment (Corbin, 2025) that not only boost engagement but also demand clear demonstration of the process of authentic learning.
To enhance the validity of assessments, we as fully online only MBA provider, have made several structural changes in our assessments for the students to reflect their journey of authentic learning. The current poster covers a few key structural changes included as part of assessment redesign:

1. Assessment requires students to collect/extract data to conduct initial data analysis and submit the spreadsheet, in addition to the evaluation of the results in a separate report document.
2. Students are required to submit links to websites or provide specific page numbers with the links to the documents from where they extracted the relevant information needed as part of assessment instructions.

The purpose of this is to ensure that the student engage in the data collection process and ethically conducted authentic research which is verifiable.