Scenario 6

Tam is an excellent student. He received a very high mark for an essay in an earlier subject, and is keen to re-use or re-cycle some of the same material in a different essay for another subject. Is Tam in the wrong? What category of Academic Misconduct is this?

Scenario 5

Kit has been working on his assessment task for a while and is nearly finished. He knows he is one of the first people in his class to finish the task, which requires reading some books in the Library, and accessing some files in a shared online folder. He would like to be top of his class, so he decides to prevent other students from using the library books and sources.

He doesn't return the books he has been using but instead hides them on another shelf in the Library, and then deletes some of the material in the online folder.  Is Kit in the wrong? What category of Academic Misconduct is this?

Scenario 1

Joe enters the exam room with this pens and ruler to complete this exam. In the first couple of minutes of the exam he writes a formula on this ruler. All students are explicitly instructed to only write on the materials provided by the exam supervisors. Is Joe in the wrong? Is it possible to tell if Joe wrote the formula on the ruler before or during the exam? What category of Academic Misconduct is this?

Scenario 2

Lee likes to study with some of his friends who are doing the same subject.  They are used to working together and often share articles they have found from the Library if they think it might be useful to the others.  Although the report is difficult, Lee is confident that he is doing well, as he understands the subject and has worked hard. One of his friends isn’t doing as well, and asks to look at a copy of Lee’s notes and draft report.  

Lee thinks he is obliged to help his study friend, so gives him a usb with copies of all of his research as well as the draft report.  His friend changes it a bit, but ends up submitting Lee’s report as his own. Is Lee in the wrong? What category of Academic Misconduct is this?

Scenario 3

Gill is running late because she is working at her part-time job. One of her subjects requires that she participate in an online discussion forum in Moodle and answer some weekly quiz questions. It is only worth a small amount of marks every week so nobody takes it very seriously.

Gill asks her friend Amir to post a quick response on her behalf, and sends him her username and password. Is Gill in the wrong? What category of Academic Misconduct is this?

Scenario 4

Neil knows that he has not properly referenced a large section of his report, but didn't take good notes during his research and now has run out of time to go back and find the sources again.  He has heard of a technique of tricking the Turnitin program by taking an photo of the page of text and inserting that photo into the word document.

As Turnitin is a text-matching software program, it doesn't recognise photos and so won't calculate the plagiarised paragraphs.  Neil will be able to submit an Originality Report with a low score. Is Neil in the wrong? What category of Academic Misconduct is this?