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Academic Integrity for Students

What is Facilitating Academic Misconduct?

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

Examples of Facilitating Academic Misconduct

  • Students sharing their work with other students when such sharing is not allowed – also see collusion
  • Students uploading their work to a file-sharing site, where it might be viewed or used by other students – see file-sharing information sheet below

Prevention of Facilitating Academic Misconduct

  • Discuss academic integrity with your instructor
  • Discuss file-sharing with your instructor
  • Do not share your work with other students unless approved by your instructor
  • Do not provide access to, upload, distribute, sell, trade, or copy any of your course materials
  • Do not share tests, exams, or assignments with others
  • Use academic integrity checklist
  • Keep careful research notes 
  • Ask instructor to specify where "collaboration ends and collusion begins" (Velliaris & Pierce, 2019)
  • Ask instructor for examples of what students can and can’t share (Sutton & Taylor, 2011)
  • Collaborate only with classmates specified by your instructor, and only in the manner which your instructor specifies
  • Complete assessments which are assigned individually on your own
  • Ask for help from Assiniboine support staff, including your Student Success Advisor, the Learning Curve, and the Library

 

References

Akimov, A., & Malin, M. (2020). When old becomes new: a case study of oral examination as an online assessment tool. Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 45(8), p. 1205-1221.

Assiniboine College. (2023). Policy A25. https://assiniboine.net/sites/default/files/documents/2019-08/a25.pdf

Bertram Gallant, T. (2008). Academic integrity in the 21st century: a teaching and learning imperative. Jossey-Bass.

Bertram Gallant, T. (2017). Academic integrity as a teaching & learning issue: from theory to practice. Theory Into Practice, 56(2), 88-94.

Bertram Gallant, T. (2018). Course design, assessment & integrity: strange bedfellows? https://academicintegrity.org/blog/course-design-assessment-integrity-strange-bedfellows/

Conference Board of Canada. (2020). Employability skills. https://www.conferenceboard.ca/edu/employability-skills.aspx

Deale, C.S., Lee, S.H., Bae, J, & White, B. (2020). An exploratory study of educators' and students' perceptions of collaboration versus cheating in hospitality and tourism education. Journal of Teaching in Travel & Tourism, 20(2), 89-104.

Sutton, A., & Taylor, D. (2011). Confusion about collusion: working together and academic integrity. Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 36(7), 831-841.

Velliaris, D.M., & Pierce, J.M. (2019). Cheaters beware: (re)designing assessment practices to reduce academic misconduct. In Prevention and Detection of Academic Misconduct in Higher Education, 1-38.