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Academic integrity

What is academic integrity?

Academic Integrity means your work on exams and assignments reflects your own learning and is not produced dishonestly. Integrity in an academic setting means respecting the scholarly community — professors, researchers, and other students. This includes respecting the work of others by learning how to interact with their ideas and cite them correctly.

NEW!!!! self-paced individual study about Academic Integrity Matters 

Self-enroll in the ASC's Blackboard course askASC first:

  1. Log into myClass (Blackboard)
  2. Use the navigation menu to go to the Courses section 
  3. Click on the Course Catalog icon at the top right corner of your screen
  4. In the search field, type ASC
  5. In the search results, under Course ID, hover over the title askASC and then click on the arrow that appears
  6. Click Enroll
  7. Click Submit

Then choose "Academic Integrity Matters--Self-study Course" from the navigation on the left-hand side.

What are the different types of academic misconduct?

UFV's Student Academic Misconduct Policy (#70) lists the different types of misconduct:

  • plagiarism
  • cheating
  • falsification of academic records
  • resubmission of work
  • improper research practices
  • obstruction of academic activities of another student
  • aiding and abetting.

 

Additional resources you'll find useful

What is the difference between plagiarism and citation? [PDF]
Use this guide in combination with our Citation/Documentation Style guides and our Principles of Citation resource to learn how to use your academic source material with integrity.