Academic Integrity Policy
Misunderstood Academic Offences
Excessive collaboration
» Discussing an assignment in significant detail with peers or splitting up work
» Using a classmate’s assignment as the basis or as a reference for your own or allowing someone else to do this with your assignment
» Each assignment may have different requirements related to collaboration; be sure to confirm these expectations with your teacher
Plagiarism
» Copying code, ideas, images, direct quotations, etc. without proper citation
» citationmachine.net is a citation generator that can help you avoid plagiarism – there is also one on Microsoft Word under the References tab
» Self-plagiarism, re-submitting an assignment for another class, is an offence
Unauthorized use of previous term’s assignments, tests, solutions
» It is unacceptable to have unauthorized access to this information or to accept it if it is offered to you
» Even if it was not you who obtained it, this is still an offence
Use of another student’s previous assignment, test, solution
» You may not work off of, or refer to in any way, a copy of an assignment a student submitted in a previous semester or year
» Even though students may have finished a course, their submitted documents may be kept for reference
Theft of another student’s intellectual property
» Looking at another individual’s assignment, test or exam without their permission or submitting another
individual’s assignment as your own are very serious offences and under no circumstances is this excusable
Adapted with permission from the “The Academic Integrity Fact Sheet for Students”, University of Waterloo, Office of Academic Integrity, May 2018.
Excessive collaboration
» Discussing an assignment in significant detail with peers or splitting up work
» Using a classmate’s assignment as the basis or as a reference for your own or allowing someone else to do this with your assignment
» Each assignment may have different requirements related to collaboration; be sure to confirm these expectations with your teacher
Plagiarism
» Copying code, ideas, images, direct quotations, etc. without proper citation
» citationmachine.net is a citation generator that can help you avoid plagiarism – there is also one on Microsoft Word under the References tab
» Self-plagiarism, re-submitting an assignment for another class, is an offence
Unauthorized use of previous term’s assignments, tests, solutions
» It is unacceptable to have unauthorized access to this information or to accept it if it is offered to you
» Even if it was not you who obtained it, this is still an offence
Use of another student’s previous assignment, test, solution
» You may not work off of, or refer to in any way, a copy of an assignment a student submitted in a previous semester or year
» Even though students may have finished a course, their submitted documents may be kept for reference
Theft of another student’s intellectual property
» Looking at another individual’s assignment, test or exam without their permission or submitting another
individual’s assignment as your own are very serious offences and under no circumstances is this excusable
Adapted with permission from the “The Academic Integrity Fact Sheet for Students”, University of Waterloo, Office of Academic Integrity, May 2018.