Academic Integrity Course

Falsifying, misrepresenting and/or withholding information is a violation of academic integrity. Examples include:

• presenting deceptive or false information to the College or a College official to gain an unfair advantage
• withholding records, transcripts or other academic documents to gain an unfair advantage or mislead the College

What can you do?

• You have a responsibility to ensure that any official academic and non-academic records or information provided to the College are truthful and free of alteration or misrepresentation.

You have a responsibility to ensure that your work is free of fraud or fabrication. Examples of fraud and fabrication include:

• intentional misrepresentation of information
• falsifying research
• inventing or exaggerating data or results
• citing incorrect or fictitious resources

What can you do?

• Seek help from the library to find credible research and information resources
• Cite those sources!

Impersonating someone, or entering into an agreement to impersonate someone to gain unfair advantage in a course, submission of work or an exam, violates the principles of academic integrity.

What can you do?

• You have a responsibility to produce work on your own merit and verify your identity when requested by the College

Inappropriately accessing someone else's work or gaining unauthorized access to confidential tools and materials to gain an unfair advantage is a violation of academic integrity.

What can you do?

• You have the responsibility to uphold confidentiality of another person's work
• You have the responsibility to ensure that the work of others (e.g. draft documents, final assignments, access codes) is not published or otherwise made available to a third party without prior consent
• You have the right to privacy over your work and learning tools and materials

Interference with the scholarly activities of another in order to gain unfair advantage is a violation of academic integrity.

• All students, including you, have a right to succeed academically without scholarly obstruction and interference from other students.

Resubmitting a piece of work (with or without minor modifications) for evaluation or credit, for which credit has already been awarded is contrary to the principles of academic integrity.

• You have a responsibility to obtain permission from your instructor before previously evaluated work is submitted.

The Camosun College Academic Integrity policy provides a number of other examples of academic dishonesty. It is recommended that you understand and be aware of the variety of possible academic integrity violations so you can act, to the best of your ability, in accordance with academic integrity expectations while studying at Camosun College. If you have questions ask your instructor or seek out other supports for clarification.