When you graduate from post-secondary school, you want to know that the quality associated with your certificate, diploma or degree will mean something. Studying with the values of academic integrity—honesty, trust, fairness, respect, responsibility and courage—can help to protect academic credentials. Acts of academic dishonesty give some students an unfair advantage, jeopardize the value of the work you do and place you at risk.
Adapted from Miron, J., & McKenzie, A. Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike2.5 Canada License.
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This tutorial will help you learn what academic integrity is, why it is important and what are some of the common types of violations.
It has four parts. Each one has a short video and a quiz. At the end of the tutorial, there's a quiz with five multiple-choice and true/false questions. You must achieve 80% or higher to pass.
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Avoiding Contract Cheating
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