Some common types of academic integrity breaches include:
- Unauthorised use of generative artificial intelligence (Gen-AI): Using Gen-AI tools to help complete your assessments when use has not been explicitly allowed. (If you are unclear whether you are allowed to use a Gen-AI tool for course work, check with our course co-ordinator).
- Plagiarism: Copying or paraphrasing someone else’s work and presenting it as your own. This includes using your own work in a different context without authorisation.
- Collusion: Working with others on a task in which individual answers are required. This is sometimes called unauthorised collaboration and it may occur unintentionally or intentionally.
- File-sharing: uploading assessment work or course materials to file-sharing websites, or any other form of unauthorised distribution of assessment work or course materials.
- Contract cheating: Commissioning someone else to complete an assessment or task for you, either paid or unpaid.
- Falsification: Manipulating, changing or omitting research data and presenting the results, which will not be valid.
- Fabrication: Making up research data and presenting them as results.
- Impersonation: Pretending to be another person in an assignment, or getting someone else to do an assessment for you. For example, sitting a test or examination on behalf of another student.
For more information on academic integrity and advice for learning how to recognise and avoid plagiarism, please refer to the links below.
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