Importance of Academic Integrity and Designing a Game to Promote it

This report discusses the importance of academic integrity and the implications of academic misconduct. It also reflects on the steps taken to design a game to promote academic integrity and the skills learned in the process. The report emphasizes the values of honesty, respect, fairness, and truthfulness that individuals should adhere to. It also highlights the legalities and quality of learning associated with academic integrity. The report further discusses the different types of academic misconduct, such as cheating, plagiarism, falsification of academic records, and collusion. The difficulties faced while designing the game and the skills learned, such as creative thinking, information technology, and communication, are also discussed.

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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION ..........................................................................................................................3
TASK...............................................................................................................................................3
Explain the importance of academic integrity? ..........................................................................3
Implications of academic integrity misconduct :- .....................................................................4
Reflect on the steps taken to produce the game..........................................................................5
Difficulties faced :.......................................................................................................................6
Skills learned this academic year and those emphasised in producing the game :.....................6
CONCLUSION ...............................................................................................................................6
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................7

INTRODUCTION
The academic integrity is the moral code or the ethnic policy of the academic. The
academic integrity consists of the values, beliefs that an individual should adhere to it. This
consist of five basic values such as honesty, respect, fairness, truthfulness. It is very important
that the academic integrity is been flowed in the universities which can help the students to
create their original content rather can copying it from the other sources(Cleary, and Sayers,
2017). This report will include the various topic such as the explanation of the academic integrity
with its importance, the implication of the academic misconduct, reflection on skills. Difficulties
faced and at last skills I learned in the academic year and while designing the game.
TASK
Explain the importance of academic integrity?
As the various unfair means of practice is been conducted b y the students in the form of
cheating during the exams or completion of the assignments. It is very important that an
individual should know the importance of the academic integrity. This impacts the life of an
individual. The importance of the academic integrity in higher education is been discussed
below:
 Laws- There are certain strict legalities provided by the universities which are supported
by the government which can lead to different harsh punishments, fines and prisoned in
serious circumstances for misconducting educational activities.
 Quality of leaning – Not using fair values in education system will affect the quality of
leaning and have no guarantee of actual knowledge needed for the certain post or
position. This also gets a student to study about various elements of the world, systematic
maintenance of records, geographical and many other knowledgeable formats which can
help the learner immensely(Gottardello, and Karabag, 2020)
 Influencing skills - The academic tool includes psychological elements of behavioural
aspect too, providing the students with impact ability over the human behavioural which
develops the influencing skills making people believe in them and getting their things
done.

 Best chance of success – The academic integrity provides with the fairness of the work
assignments and there is the chance of the good marks for the students. This can impact
in the academic and the success of the individual.
 Value of university – The quality of leaning and the way staff and students work or
study in a university, impacts other people see the university and what is its value. So for
maintaining a good worth in society, an university must uplift and maintain the fair
standards of the assessments and courses held.(Taylor, and Bicak, 2019).
 Self confidence – When a student passes through honest leaning and without using any
academic misconducting practices such as cheating, he/she will have faith and will be
proud of his/her standards of true learnings.
 Proper credit – In giving tests and assessments, its important for the enrollee to provide
the actual data about the data provider or writer whose information has been used. It
gives proper recognition to the writer which is the outcome of his hard work used in
collecting and providing the information. It also tells the checker see where your ideas
have come from and which can also effect the marking.
Implications of academic integrity misconduct :-
 Cheating- It is the commonly term which is used by the individual in today;s world. The
students practice the unfair means in their exams of in the completion of the assignment.
This becomes habit of an individual as practising in day to day life. This is the academic
misconduct which leads to the bad image of the student if they are been caught cheating.
 Plagiarism- This is known as the content which is been copied without the permission or
the referencing. The copied material can come under plagiarism. The students who are
advised to make the assignment without plagiarism. But the percentage can show the
amount of content which has been copied from the internet sources. This is the another
misconduct which is not helpful for the long term(Palmer, Pegrum, and Oakley, 2019)
 Falsification of academic records- This is the most offence type of misconduct activity.
In this type the person has the duplicate or the fraud documents and makes his/ her test
conducted by te other person just for the sake of having the degree in the name of the
person.
 Social- the academic misconduct can affect the social life of the student as when the
person is cheating and the individual student becomes habitual of doing their assignments

with the help of the other sources or simply just copying it. This can impact in the image
of the individual as the student will able to not develop self confidence in completing the
task by own.(Stowe, 2017).
 Collusion – It is the activity of collaborating of more that one student or scholarly
person for submission of assessments that must be done by an individual. It may result in
punishment of all the individuals involved. The activity in which different people
collaborate or discuss about the task together but present their tasks differently which
represent mostly similar data, can also be mentioned under the activity collusion. This
doesn't involve the group tasks in which a group of people are told by the university to
collaborate with each other to complete one or their different tasks.(Liu, Jand Yeats,
2017)
Reflect on the steps taken to produce the game
As discussed above with the importance of the academic integrity in the world by the
individual. The practice of the academic misconduct leads to acquire the academic integrity with
the more concern. This made me feel that it is very important that the individual should know the
importance and value the universities policies by adhering to the academic integrity. Due this ii
though of designing the game through which the students will able to get knowledge of the
academic integrity and know how the plagiarism ca be removed from the content. So, I decided t
design a game which can be interesting and as well as help the students in solving the various
problems. First I decided that there will be a team work where I created a team and start building
relationship with them in order to work effectively and efficiently. Further, there was a need of
managing the useful resources in order to conduct the game. I managed the useful resources such
as computer so that the students can perform the activity. Aster arranging the resources I was
managing the various teams which has been participated in the game and telling them the
instructions. To design the game I concentrated on making it attractive my using the attractive
colours and the design so that the students are motivated to participate in it. The coding was
needed to be perfect so the players would not face any inconvenience, so this activity got full of
our attention and time.

Difficulties faced :
While designing the game there were various issues and problems which I faced. Some of the
difficulties which I faced are discussed below:
Easy usage- the target participant for the game was the students where the people might
not having the knowledge of the computer. So before using the computer and the software I
needed to identify my audience properly(Palmer,, Oakley, and Pegrum, 2017).
Designs- it was very difficult for me to choose the right colour and combination as there
were several options and choosing was one of the most difficult task for me. To make the game
attractive I need to focus on the in texting and the designs which is been used in the game.
Collaborating ideas- Working in a team is sometimes defective as it help in creating the
new ideas but the collaborative working made me realise that at time it creates chaos and
confusion because ever individual has different perceptions. While designing the game I faced
difficulty in choosing the right form to design it because of the collaborating team work.
Identifying the best resources- It was very problematic for me to collect the resources
as there was requirement of the computers which is difficult to manage with the software and
coding software. This was the most difficult task. To identify and find these resources from the
market and providing them the demanded fees was a very tough activity but we fought with it
and got the resources within our budget(Orr, , 2018)
Skills learned this academic year and those emphasised in producing the game :
There were various skills sets wh9icj I was able to develop in my academic year and while
designing this game I was able to develop it more and enhance my skills in my various activities.
The various skills which I learned are discussed below:
Creative thinking- I was able to develop my creative thinking skills as i was able to
design the game in a creative manner. This skill enhanced my activity and I was able t think in a
creative way with the help of my team members. I was able to enhance on my skill while
creating the designs and the colour and to make the game attractive for the students.
Information technology- before this game I was not having much knowledge of the
computer but when I planned to design such a game I was able to lear the information
technology skills where I leaned the different aspect and the 3easy way to handle. I was able to
grab information related to the technology and I was able to use the software. So, in my

academic I was able to develop my information technology skills(Pecorari, and Shaw, eds.,
2019)
Communication- This is the most important skill which is required in every aspect.
During my academic year I was able to enhance my communication skills. Also while designing
this game Iit helped me a lot as I was communicating with my team teams and also guiding the
other team members helped me in my communication skills. Giving the instructions to the other
team also requires a proper communication skill. So here I was able to learn the new aspect that
what should be communicated and what not and 9in which manner so that the other people are
able to understand in a easy way(Glendinning, 2020)
CONCLUSION
From the above report it is concluded that it is very important that the student should
know the importance of the academic integrity. The values which is been taught in the
universities is for the beneficial of the individual for their career in future. The academic
integrity is related to the values, honesty, trust, fairness, respect in the behaviour and in the work
they are performing. As the academic misconduct is the common practice which need to be
removed so that people can understand the importance of the academic integrity. While
designing the game there was various difficulties which I faced but it is very important that I
leaned from my mistakes. I was able to enhance my skills during this game. I was able to
enhance 9on my communication, information technology skills. As working with the other team
members increased my knowledge. This was an effective for me and the various other students
and they were able to know the plagiarism and how the academic integrity can help in the
academic marks and in the profe4ssional life

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