1. School of Mathematics Academic Integrity Officer
Dr Andrew J. Baczkowski
School of Mathematics Academic Integrity Officer

2. Academic Integrity
Don’t cheat!

3. If you cheat, don’t get caught!
Academic Integrity
If you cheat, don’t get caught!

4. If you cheat and are caught…
Academic Integrity
If you cheat and are caught…

5. If you cheat and are caught, you will leave your “safe space”!
Academic Integrity
If you cheat and are caught, you will leave your “safe space”!

6. Fraudulent or fabricated coursework Academic Malpractice
What is Cheating?
Cheating in Exams
Plagiarism
Fraudulent or fabricated coursework
Academic Malpractice

7. Cheating in Exams
Examples include:
introduce notes or other unauthorised material (including blank paper), mobile telephones or pagers, portable or laptop computers or other electronic devices
copy from other candidates or from notes
disobey the regulations relating to calculators
communicate in any way with other candidates or person(s) except the invigilators

8. Plagiarism
Plagiarism is presenting someone else's work as your own. Work includes text, data, images, etc.

9. Fraudulent or Fabricated Coursework
Knowingly submitting work that has been fabricated or is untrue.

10. Academic Malpractice Academic malpractice includes:
theft of the work of other students
handing in assignments obtained from others, whether within or outside of the University, including on a commercial basis
theft or misrepresentation of identity (including asking others to undertake an assessment)
resubmitting your own work when this has already been awarded marks without permission to do so (including if the work submitted was for a different module)
knowingly helping another student to copy your own work or the work of others.

11. If you cheat and are caught, “Lasciate ogni speranza, voi ch'entrate”!
Academic Integrity
If you cheat and are caught, “Lasciate ogni speranza, voi ch'entrate”!
“Abandon all hope, you who enter here”, Dante’s Inferno, canto III.

12. Case 1
Student A, a first year student, asked a relative to help with a computing practical and included some of the relative’s source code in his coursework.
Result: Student A found guilty of Academic Malpractice.
Penalty: Student A received a mark of 0 for his submitted coursework (25% of module mark). A future case of cheating will result in automatic reporting to the University Secretariat and could result in expulsion from the University.

13. Case 2
B, a first year student, submitted material downloaded from an internet site as his own work.
Result: Student B found guilty of Plagiarism.
Penalty: Module mark returned as 0. Student B had to resubmit the coursework tackling a different problem. Student B had to pay as though he was a resit student to obtain a module mark capped at 40 (a bare pass). Failure to comply would result in final degree being withheld. A future case of cheating will result in automatic reporting to the University Secretariat and could result in expulsion from the University.

14. Case 3
C, a second year Mathematics student, submitted some material downloaded from an internet site as his own work for a LUBS module.
Result: Student C found guilty of Plagiarism.
Penalty: Module mark returned as 0. Student C had to resubmit the coursework tackling a different problem. Student C had to pay as though he was a resit student to obtain a module mark capped at 25 (a bad fail). Failure to comply would result in final degree being withheld. A future case of cheating will result in automatic reporting to the University Secretariat and could result in expulsion from the University.

15. Case 4
D, a final year student, submitted some material downloaded from an internet site as her own work.
Result: Student D found guilty of Plagiarism.
Penalty: Student D had to resubmit the coursework tackling a different problem. Student D had to pay as though she was a resit student to obtain a coursework mark capped at Failure to comply would result in final degree being withheld.
D also risked not receiving her degree in July with fellow students.

16. Case 5
E, a second year student, left some notes in a toilet cubicle before an examination. During the examination he used the toilet to consult his notes. He claimed he put the notes in a waste bin before starting the examination but someone had taken the notes out and left them behind the toilet cistern.
Result: Student E found guilty of cheating in an examination.
(Note that ALL cases of cheating in an examination are handled by the University Secretariat.)
Penalty: Student E expelled from the University without finishing his degree. Penalty upheld after an appeal.

17. Academic Integrity
As part of a University education, you need to learn how to interpret and present other people's ideas, and combine them with your own ideas and labour to produce academic work.
Academic integrity is about making sure you do this correctly and acknowledge the work of others, thereby avoiding plagiarism.

18. Academic Integrity II
Work together and exchange ideas together, get ideas from books and other sources
BUT
The work you hand in:
● MUST be written up in your own words,
● MUST NOT be copied FROM anyone,
● MUST NOT be copied BY anyone,
● understood and able to be explained by you,
● and suitably referenced where necessary.

19. Further information University Library Skills@Library Main Page:
Academic Integrity Tutorial:
Link to Academic Integrity test:

20. Academic Integrity
So key advice is:
Don’t Cheat!