Academic Integrity for Faculty

Students who knowingly or negligently assist other students to engage in academic misconduct even though there is no benefit to themselves. 
Examples of facilitating academic misconduct include, but are not limited to: 

• a student allowing other students to use their assignment to do their own assignment 
• a student allowing other students to look at their work during a test or exam
• student uploading their assignment to a file-sharing site

• Discuss academic integrity with your students
• Discuss file-sharing with your students
• Use academic integrity checklist

• Avoid using test questions and exercises from commercial textbooks
• Use individualized topics and questions
• Regularly refresh assessments to make sharing work counterproductive
• Require that students provide research notes if requested
• Limit student access to marked assessments to help prevent them being uploaded
• Assign live presentations or demonstrations in person or on digital platforms such as Zoom

  • Akimov & Malin (2020) list some of the advantages of oral examinations as being an increased desire to learn, reduced academic misconduct, and being faster to mark than written exams, with another consideration being that they are best suited for smaller classes of more experienced students.

• Implement assignment scaffolding with multiple drafts
• Provide clear guidelines around collaboration in course outlines, syllabi, etc. (Deale et al., 2020)
• Specify where "collaboration ends and collusion begins" (Velliaris & Pierce, 2019)
• Provide examples of what students can and should do in group work (Sutton & Taylor, 2011)
• Offer guidance on best practices rather than only warnings on what not to do (Sutton & Taylor, 2011)
• Use Ouriginal text-matching software for written assignments

Just as with other forms of misconduct, knowing your students and their language abilities/style is the best way to identify if a student has facilitated academic misconduct. If something suddenly sounds like it was written by a different person with a different vocabulary, it may have been.

The Academic Misconduct Procedures Manual which accompanies Policy A25 will point staff towards procedures and resources to help gather information for the identification of potential academic misconduct. Contact the Manager of Library Services for more information.