web academic integrity quiz show

Academic Integrity

How well do YOU know the rules?

Presented by Student Advocacy and UMSU

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While writing an exam in a large room, the person beside you asks to see your answers.  You should:

Scream “CHEATER CHEATER PUMPKIN EATER”

Run like heck!  That dude is going to bring you down

Ask for a fee of at least one dozen chocolate bars (don’t settle for anything less; you studied hard!)

Give the person the answers…the WRONG answers

Grab your exam, and go to the front of the class to talk to the instructor

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While writing an exam in a large room, the person beside you asks to see your answers.  You should:

Grab your exam, and go to the front of the class to talk to the instructor

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You are accused of plagiarism, you should:

Call your lawyer

Drop the class. If you VW nothing can happen

March up to your prof and demand to know what this is all about

Answer any questions in a way that will keep you out of trouble: lie if you have to

Visit the Student Advocacy Office for help

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You are accused of plagiarism, you should:

Visit the Student Advocacy Office for help

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One of the following is NOT a penalty that can be given to a student found to have been involved in academic dishonesty

F on the assignment or test

Suspension from all courses in a particular department

Suspension from the student’s home faculty

F in the course

Phone call to your parents

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One of the following is NOT a penalty that can be given to a student found to have been involved in academic dishonesty

Phone call to your parents

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You are being investigated for academic dishonesty. Lying can:

Help you to convince yourself that cheating is ok

Make it easier for you to face your prof in your next class

Make you feel good about the situation

Get you out of trouble

Lead to a more severe penalty

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You are being investigated for academic dishonesty. Lying can:

Lead to a more severe penalty

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You are working on an assignment when you get stuck on a question. You should

Start to cry, give up, and drop out of school

Sit beside the smartest person in class and try to copy their answer before you hand it in

Ask someone else in the class to see what they put for that answer to help you out

Refuse to answer it and provide a detailed explanation about why this is a trick and therefore, there is no actual answerLook in your notes/textbook and talk to your instructor/TA

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You are working on an assignment when you get stuck on a question. You should

Look in your notes/textbook and talk to your instructor/TA

True or False

10 Points Each

Your professors can often tell that an essay has been plagiarized, even though they may not know where the plagiarized info comes from.

Your professors can often tell that an essay has been plagiarized, even though they may not know where the plagiarized info comes from.

TRUE

Professors study the topics they teach. They will likely have read

many of the sources you will use to write papers.

After visiting the doctor on the day of an exam, you notice that she has written the wrong date. It is okay to change the date yourself.

After visiting the doctor on the day of an exam, you notice that she has written the wrong date. It is okay to change the date yourself.

FALSE

This is considered False Documentation which is a form of

academic dishonesty

You can take your cell phone into an exam or test, as long as the ringer is turned off.

You can take your cell phone into an exam or test, as long as the ringer is turned off.

FALSE

You should never bring anything into an exam room that you have not

been instructed to have with you(Student ID, pen, pencil, eraser

etc).

You should always sit beside your friends in exams.

You should always sit beside your friends in exams.

FALSE

Sitting away from your friends, shielding your answers, keeping your eyes on your own paper and speaking only to the instructor or invigilator are good

ways to avoid being suspect of dishonest behaviour.

You are assigned a paper which has a similar topic to one you wrote last year. It is okay to submit the paper again.

You are assigned a paper which has a similar topic to one you wrote last year. It is okay to submit the paper again.

FALSE

This is called Duplicate Submission. It is a form of Academic Dishonesty

and can result in a penalty

Short Answers

5 Points Each

Taking the words, ideas or thoughts of others and passing them off as your own is called

Taking the words, ideas or thoughts of others and passing them off as your own is called

PLAGIARISM

Copying answers from someone in an exam is considered

Copying answers from someone in an exam is considered

CHEATING

Working on an assignment with someone else when the work is intended to be individual is called

Working on an assignment with someone else when the work is intended to be individual is called

INAPPROPRIATE COLLABORATION

If you hand in an essay that you used for another class, it is called

If you hand in an essay that you used for another class, it is called

DUPLICATE SUBMISSION

FINAL QUESTION

25 Points

Which Student Affairs office might a student visit to find out everything they need to know about the rules surrounding Academic Integrity?

Which Student Affairs office might a student visit to find out everything they need to know about the rules surrounding Academic Integrity?

STUDENT ADVOCACY

519 University Centre 474-7423 Confidential Service

Help with matters involving Academic Integrity

Able to assist with any concerns related to U of M policies

Special Thanks To:

UMSU Student ServicesCandace Heyliger