5.13 STUDENT BEHAVIOUR

5.13.2 ACADEMIC MISCONDUCT

5.13.2.1 Academic Integrity

Assignments, tests, and examinations are designed for students to show the instructor how well they have mastered the course material. When the instructor evaluates the student’s work, it must therefore be clear which ideas and words are the student’s own. The general principles of academic integrity for students doing course work are that they are to do their own original, individual work, unless told otherwise by the course instructor, and are to give credit for other people’s ideas or words. Students should be aware that, while collaborative or group work on assignments may be encouraged in some disciplines, it is not acceptable in others (refer to §5.13.2.3). Discussion of ideas with faculty and other students (that is, intellectual debate) is both allowable and important, provided that credit is given in written work for ideas that are not one's own (see §5.13.2.2). Group study (as distinct from group work on an assignment that is to be graded) is likewise permissible unless explicitly forbidden by the instructor.