Academic integrity is about mastering the art of scholarship. Scholarship involves researching, understanding and building upon the work of others. It requires that you give credit where it is due and acknowledge the contributions of others to your own intellectual efforts.

At its core, academic integrity requires honesty. This involves being responsible for ethical scholarship and for knowing what academic dishonesty is and how to avoid it.

Scope

Common examples of academic dishonesty include, but are not limited to:

• Submitting, as your own, an assignment that another person has completed.
• Downloading information, text, computer code, artwork, graphics or other material from the internet and presenting it as your own without acknowledgment.
• Quoting or paraphrasing material from a source without acknowledgment.
• Preparing a correctly cited and referenced assignment from individual research and then handing part or all of that work in twice for separate subjects/marks

Policy provisions

Because students are required to keep their login details (username and password) confidential, every time they submit work through the academy³ online system, they are effectively declaring that their work is their own. In the event that a student is found to have acted dishonestly, the student’s intent is irrelevant. A passing grade will be withheld until the student can provide honest evidence of competency.

Note that, other than in exceptional circumstances, a finding of academic dishonesty will not prevent a student completing a unit or course, and would not be recorded on their academic transcript.

Complaints and appeals

In the event that a student is unhappy with a finding of academic dishonesty, the student may lodge their grievance under the academy³ Complaints and Appeals Policy.