Importance of Academic Integrity and Plagiarism Game

This presentation discusses the importance of academic integrity and a plagiarism game to test students' knowledge. It includes instructions for playing the game, sample questions, and skills used to produce the game. The presentation also highlights the significance of academic integrity in universities and its impact on students' learning and career growth.

Instructions for playing the game
BMP3003 Further Academic Skills
• Academic integrity is extremely important at
universities as it provides students as well as teachers
to build new ideas, knowledge and work creatively by
simultaneously respecting as well as acknowledging
others work.
• Academic integrity at universities is important because
it directly help educators in developing ethics, honesty
among students which eventually helps in development
of moral and ethical values among students.
• Academic integrity directly helps in development of
trust among educators that students will be doing their
work honestly, and are not copying others work
Plagiarism game is a game whose main intention is
to test student knowledge of importance of academic
integrity, plagiarism, and ways in which academic
integrity by students can be maintained.
In this game assessor will consist of 40 cards with
different questions on academic integrity of four
colours and each card will be of 5 points.
Students will be divided into 4 teams and will be
asked to choose a colour and will be asked all the
questions from those cards only and will be awarded
points for each correct answer. Team with maximum
points at the end of game is the winner.
An explanation of why academic
integrity at University is so important
Game Design Skills used to produce the game
• Research skills
• Written skills
• Creativity skills
• Organizing skills
Name
Stoesz, B.M. and Eaton, S.E., 2020. Academic
integrity policies of publicly funded universities in
western Canada. Educational Policy,
p.0895904820983032.
References

Instructions for playing the game
This game is known as plagiarism game in which knowledge of students about academic integrity
and plagiarism will be checked.
This game will be played in teams where students will be divided into 4 teams.
Students will be required to answer questions asked to them. Each correct answer will be rewarded
with 5 points to team and wrong answers or no answer will be given 0 points.
This game is important for students because this game will not only help students in enhancing their
knowledge about academic integrity and plagiarism but will also make them understand how
important plagiarism is to be adhered in universities.
• There are 20 students in classroom and all the 20 students will be divided into 4 teams.
• Professor will be having 40 cards of four different colours that are red, blue, green and yellow.
• Each team will be asked to select a colour and will be asked further questions from that particular
colour card only.

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• Turn by turn each team will be asked questions to be answered and each team will be given 30
seconds to answer the question if they do not answer question or do not answer it correctly within
30 seconds then they will be provided with zero marks.
• All the cards will consist of different questions but all the questions will be multiple choice
questions.
• All the teams will be provided with an option to discuss and choose a colour for their team but
only 2 minutes for this process will be provided to them.
• Professor will be providing correct answer of questions asked after 30 seconds and before asking
next questions but final points will be provided to students after all the questions have been asked.
• Team with maximum points will be the winner.

An explanation of why academic integrity
at university is so important
• There are various factors that can help in explaining importance of academic integrity within
universities. Academic integrity helps a student in investing their time and efforts positively in
studying for their course or degree (Stoesz and Eaton, 2020).
• It directly provides students with an opportunity to learn, bring improvement within their current
skills, enhance knowledge, develop new and required skills that can further help them in achieving
desired academic goals in an effective manner.
• Adhering academic integrity in universities is further important for students to adhere because it
helps them in developing their interest within a specific filed of interest and get even more clarity
about what they want to do in future or focus upon specific career area in which they want to
develop their future.

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• Academic integrity at universities is important to be adhered
because it helps students in working upon development of their
new ideas, practice upon development of skills required
development of career, develop positive reputation within
university and learn to work in ethical manner (Guerrero-Dib,
Portales and Heredia-Escorza, 2020).
• For universities it is extremely important for ensuing that no
unethical practise is being followed or adopted by students and
guidelines developed by university is being adhered by students.
• Furthermore, it provides clarity to university to understand ways in
which they can work upon bringing changes within their
guidelines and rules so that students can understand importance of
working and learning in an ethical manner that eventually help
them in adhering academic integrity.
• Further it is also important to make student understand what
plagiarism is and how it can impact their career or learning within
university or future growth of students can get impacted.

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• It is one of the main responsibilities of university to make their students understand impact of
learning in ethical manner by avoiding plagiarism, copying others work or making other do one’s
own work o that students get prepared for working in industries, due to this it becomes important
for universities to adhere academic integrity and make it a priority and important for students to
adhere academic integrity (Denisova-Schmidt, 2017).
• This can be done by checking whether students understand meaning of plagiarism and ways in
which it can be avoided. It is important for universities because it will directly help university to
prepare their students for future challenges, prepare their students as per industry standards so that
they do not face any kind of challenge or issues while working professionally in organizations.
• Other than this, academic integrity is also important at universities because students much of their
time and money for getting a degree, learn new skills and knowledge. Academic integrity helps in
ensuing that student do no waste their time and money and their pathway that can lead them
towards their desired career do not get closed as a result of not adhering academic integrity.

Summary of reflection on the skills used to
produce the game
There are various kinds of skills that are required for development and production of
plagiarism game.
These skills helped me in developing this plagiarism game in an appropriate manner some of the
main skills required and were used for production of this plagiarism game are:
• Research skills:
• It was one of the most important skill that was required in producing this paganism game.
• This skill helped me in gaining information about different kinds of games, ways in which each game is
played and which game is suitable for development of this plagiarism game that would increase
knowledge of students about academic integrity.
• This skill further helped me in identifying questions that can be asked to students for checking and
enhancing their knowledge about academic integrity.

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• Written skills:
• It was another important skill that was required by me in producing this game for writing instructions of
game, writing questions and its options in clear manner so that each and every student can understand
them clearly.
• Creativity skills:
• It was another skill that was used got production of this plagiarism game as this helped in understanding
ways in which different types of cards can be used for production of simple but unique plagiarism game
that can be played even without any kind of requirement of modern technology or internet.
• This skill helped me in understanding ways in which I can design a simple game that would not only
help in enhancing students’ knowledge about academic integrity but would also catch their attention and
develop their interest in game.

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• Organizing skills:
• This game helped me in understanding ways in which I can organize different colour card so that when
questions are being asked to student’s mess is not created and game can be continued and finished
smoothly in an organized manner.
• This further helped me conducing this gam so that no issues in terms of playing games or points awarded
to each point is created.

Questions
Various kinds of questions related to academic integrity will be included in this game. Some
of the sample questions that will be included in this game are:
• Do you think academic integrity is important to be adhered?
• Yes
• No
• Do you think copying someone else work is an act of academic misconduct?
• Yes
• No
• Do you think plagiarism can occur within an individual’s work even it is one’s own work?
• Yes
• No

References
• Denisova-Schmidt, E., 2017. The challenges of academic integrity in higher education: Current
trends and prospects.
• Guerrero-Dib, J.G., Portales, L. and Heredia-Escorza, Y., 2020. Impact of academic integrity on
workplace ethical behaviour. International Journal for Educational Integrity, 16(1), pp.1-18.
• Stoesz, B.M. and Eaton, S.E., 2020. Academic integrity policies of publicly funded universities in
western Canada. Educational Policy, p.0895904820983032.