1. Academic Integrity, Student Misconduct, Deferred Exams and Special Consideration, Student Appeals Procedures, Education Access Plans and ANU Student Support Services
Keturah Whitford, Director of Students and Learning

2. Academic Integrity
Flow chart available here
Academic Misconduct Rules available here

3. Academic integrity Marker identifies potential breach of rules
Academic misconduct includes cheating, plagiarism, collusion, recycling, exam misconduct and engaging in conduct with a view to obtaining unfair advantage. Refer rules 5 – 8.
Breach referred to course convenor

4. Academic integrity At that point the course convenor may decide
Not to take the process further because (refer rule 17)
No grounds for deciding the student has engaged in alleged misconduct or
Breach is very minor - can only determine minor breach if
Introductory course taken in student’s first year or first semester for graduate courses and
The course outline provides that there may be a 10% reduction of total marks for minor breaches and the breach is a very minor mistake in referencing and
An opportunity is provided in the course to learn appropriate academic integrity techniques

5. Academic integrity
Or the course convenor needs to conduct an initial review (most usual course)
Write to the student with substance of allegation – refer rule 18
Invite them to a meeting
Template letters available for this
Purpose of the meeting is to determine if there is substance to the allegation and if there is to determine if it is poor academic practice or academic misconduct

6. Academic integrity Decision (see rule20)
No substance to allegation – advise student and Registrar
Academic misconduct – refer to Registrar (who will then generally refer to CBE Director of Students and Learning)
Poor academic practice – advise Registrar
Defn see rule 9
Excusable due to mitigating circumstances (personal, emotional, health)
Excusable due to unintended, inadvertent, careless or uninformed behaviour
Not poor academic practice if severe or repeated.

7. Academic integrity Penalties for poor academic practice
See rule 21
Resubmission of assessment
Counsel the student
Request the student give an undertaking
Reprimand student
Change student’s marks for that assessment
Example Academic integrity breaches and levels

8. Student Misconduct (other than academic misconduct)
See Discipline Rules
What is misconduct?
See rule 3 for full definition
Includes:
Disrupting a University activity
Damaging property
Falsifying documents for admission to university
Harassment, victimisation, discrimination
Behaving in intimidating manner
Falsifying medical certificate of academic transcript
Causing danger to health or safety of someone else

9. Student Misconduct What do you do about misconduct?
A report of misconduct should be made to the VC or a prescribed authority (CBE Dean or delegate, currently Director of Students and Learning)
The Dean may take no action or determine that there are reasonable grounds for believing that the student has engaged in misconduct and would then generally hold an inquiry – see rule 5. Range of potential penalties in rule 10
Student may appeal to the appeals Committee see rule 20.

10. Deferred Exams and Special consideration
Applications for deferred (previously called special exams are assessed centrally for final examinations and for non-final examinations – the latter is a recent change which appears not be reflected yet in the assessment procedure document See from clause 36
Course convenors receive notification about whether a student has been approved to sit a deferred exam
Refer to Procedure: student assessment

11. Deferred Exams and Special consideration
Applications for special consideration are received and noted centrally but forwarded to course convenors for consideration.
Course convenors determine whether special consideration is to be applied taking into account:
A student’s overall performance and attendance
The severity of the event or condition and its impact on performance
Academic standing status
History of previous applications for special consideration

12. Deferred Exams and Special consideration
The outcome of the course convenor’s consideration may be that:
No consideration granted
Adjustment to individual assessment item result
Adjustment to course result
Additional supplementary assessment
Referral to support services
The course convenor needs to notify the applicant by advising whether their special consideration application is accepted. – see clause 58

13. Student appeals Refer to Assessment Rules
After the final result is published the student can appeal the result by
Consultation with course convenor
Firstly consulting with the course convenor who must review the result and decide whether or not to amend the result and must notify the student of the decision made on the review (see Rule 10) – student has 20 days after publication of result to consult course convenor – important that course convenor or delegate is available in this time frame.

14. Student appeals Appeal to Director of Students and Learning
If, after discussing the final result with the Course Convenor and being notified of the Course Convenor’s decision on the review, the student considers that the result (as amended, if at all, by the Course Convenor) is inappropriate or incorrect because the established criteria of assessment or some aspect of the Assessment Rules or relevant policy or procedure has not been followed, the student may appeal to the Associate Dean (delegated in CBE to Director of Students and Learning) against that result.

15. Student appeals
Director of Students and Learning considers the appeal and may conduct inquiries
Director of Students and learning may
confirm the result appealed against; or
approve marks and the grade of a final result for the student (which may be different from the marks and the grade of result recommended by the Chair of Examiners).
Decision to be notified to student within 20 working days of appeal.

16. Student appeals
Appeal to College Dean (delegated to Associate Dean Education in CBE)
This further appeal is allowed on procedural grounds only
Must be made within 20 working days of notification of decision of Director of Students and Learning

17. Education Access Plans
The University’s Access and Inclusion office assist student’s with a disability
Based on medical evidence an Education Access plan is produced for eligible students.
If you have a student who has an EAP approved you will be advised by and the plan sent to you.
Any adjustments which might be required for that student are noted on that plan.
Any adjustments which might be required for final examinations will be handled by Access and Inclusion and Examinations.

18. ANU Student Support Services
It may be appropriate to refer to students to support services these include:
Dean of Students
Access and Inclusion
Counselling Centre
Academic Skills and Learning Centre