Black Water - A Game for Understanding Plagiarism and Academic Integrity

Black Water is a game designed to help students understand plagiarism and academic integrity. The game is played in teams and involves rolling dice to answer questions related to plagiarism. The game aims to promote academic integrity and help students avoid plagiarism.

Instructions for playing the
game
BMP3003 Further Academic
Skills
Game Design
Name: Black Water
In order to understand the concept of plagiarism and
academic integrity, a game has been developed. This game is
a questionnaire based game which will help the students in
gaining much better insights and knowledge about plagiarism
and its consequences. It is important for the students to make
sure that they are not guilty of plagiarism as it can ruin their
reputation as well as career. Plagiarism can be of different
types and it is important for the students to keep an
understanding about those types of plagiarism so that they do
not have to face alligation related to plagiarism. The
instructions for playing the game is given below:
The game will be started by dividing the whole class in to
two teams of equal number. The first team will be named as
even and the second team will be named as odd. After the
division of the teams, two dices will be provided to each
team. Two members from each team will get a chance to roll
down the dices simultaneously by the two selected members
and if the total number of two dices is even numbers then the
question will be asked from team even and if the total number
of both the dices is odd then the question will be asked from
team odd. It is important for both the teams to make sure that
they are giving correct answers to the question as each
question will contain 20 marks and it is an opportunity based
game which means that maybe all the question will be asked
to team even or vis a versa.
Each question will have 20 marks and the team which gives
most number of answers correct will be the winning team.
Academic integrity in a university means doing right things even when no one is around end do not conduct any Academic
misconduct. It simply means that students do their own work without doing any plagiarism or cheating which makes them
honest and trustworthy. Having integrity in oneself means believing in the values and standards of society that makes them
responsible citizens. Academic integrity in universities is very important as it helps them in making their students
accountable for their actions. It also helps them to improve their students' skills and abilities to perform well in their life.
Academic integrity in universities is important for various reasons which are defined below in detail
The cadmic integrity makes students trustworthy which means that the students do not conduct any unethical actions. This
means that students do their assignments or their Academic papers without conducting any plagiarism and submit their
original work to their teachers. It makes them honest interest worthy which helps them in their personal improvement.
Academic integrity also adds value to their degree which means that employers will prefer to appoint those individuals who
have performed well in their Academic. Employers will trust those graduates who have high personal integrity which could
help them in making their organization profitable. In today’s world many companies would invest in developing their
human capital by recruiting those individuals who could have positive influence on their organization and create work
environment that is free from any type of unethical actions.
Academic integrity also helps people in keeping their peace of mind but simply means that if someone is doing right think
they will have believed in their themselves. For instance, if someone is doing Academic misconduct, they will have a
constant fear of getting caught which could be minimized by implementing Academic integrity in themselves. Academic
integrity also helps in reducing unnecessary stress and make happy and healthy their life for people.
Academic integrity also provides affair opportunity for everyone to express their skills and abilities in university. It also
helps students to treat others equally and follow rules and regulations of universities without conducting any and ethical
actions. Can make integrity also develop a sense of respect in every student and make them a responsible person. It also
makes them brave and courage is to stand for what is right and taking every action against Academic misconduct. Academic
integrity also provides students and opportunity to develop new ideas and thoughts and become creative while respecting
and acknowledging work of others. It also helps them to build a self-esteem and confidence among themselves which helps
them in their future career growth. It is important for university to ensure that every student is following their values and
working towards making themselves ethical. Academic integrity is also important as society except those. individuals who
are honest interest worthy. It helps students to make correct and right decisions for their career which Phil help them in their
professional growth
Importance of academic integrity

Questions for the game
BMP3003 Further Academic
Skills
.
Name: Black water
1) Any facts
which are
resulted
from the
research of
individual
author can
be
copyrighted
4) can a
student use
their own
notes taken
from a
lecture of a
specific
professor in
another
professors
assignment
s
5)
paraphrasing
too closely
the work of
another
author is
considered to
be as
plagiarism
even after
providing
proper
citations
because
a) yes.
b) no
a) yes.
B) no
3)
information
which is
regarded as
a common
knowledge
in the work
of author
can be used
without
citing the
sources.
2) using the
work of
others and
misinterpreti
ng it as their
own is
considered
to be
plagiarism
6) why is
citing the
source by
bibliograph
y alone is
considered
to be as
insufficient
a) yes but only
after taking
permission from
both the
professors.
b) no it will still
be considered as
plagiarism
a) the person
using the work
has failed to
mark the words
with quotation
marks.
b) the user has
changed the
whole meaning
of the work of
author
a) because by so
doing the user
fail to indicate
the exact
source(s) of each
specific passage.
b) because there
will be no
consideration
the consultation
work used in
order to
complete the
essay.
a) yes.
b) no

Skills used to produce the game
BMP3003 Further Academic
Skills
.
Name: Black water
My university professor assigned a project of producing the game which main objective is identifying as well as avoiding the activities of plagiarism and academic misconduct. The game is
played in group so at initial stage, we have allocated different task that are related to developing game among team members according to their specialisation, skills and interest areas that
enable them to perform in most efficient manner.
• Problem solving skills: As there are various issues and problems are raised during the process of producing game due to miscommunication and conflicts among group members that
impacts on efficiency and effectiveness overall process. I have analysed the root cause of problem than find out suitable alternatives that can resolve the problem. I have taken various
initiatives to resolve the conflicts among team members through conducting conferences and meetings. I put efforts to understand the point of view of all team members fining the
appropriate solution that satisfy all members and involve them towards performing task with efficiency to develop game.
• Communication skills: Communication is the most essential and important skill that we have used in game development which is used to reduce plagiarism and academic misconduct. It
is soft skill that is overlooked by the programmers and technical folks. For the purpose of enhancing success rate of game, I have communicated the ultimate vision as well as idea behind
developing game to other team members that enhances common understanding and enable to produce game in efficient way.
• Creativity skills: In order to come up with original idea of developing game of avoiding plagiarism and academic misconduct that is quite different from others needs to put creativity. I
have been creative ideas and concepts for developing game that make it unique as well as provides competitive advantages. I have conducted depth research to identify various aspects of
game and evaluate then on the bases of uniqueness (Weitze, 2017). Research provides information regarding effectiveness of game and interest level of participants. We have introduced
various steps to play the game and develop innovative plane to present it to participants that enhances success rate of game to identify plagiarism and academic misconduct.
• Technical, IT and conceptual skills: These are the skills that are used by us to develop effective game of removing the level of plagiarism. I have developed conceptual aspects of game
on the bases of its aims and objectives. Then we have used technical skills to develop designing of game.
• Time management and evaluation skills: As producing game for specific purpose of avoiding plagiarism and academic misconduct is quite complex process with having multiple steps.
We have segregated all steps on the bases of time that is taken by them to accomplished. It enables to completes all activities in defined manner on time that enhances performance and
functionality of game. I have taken responsibility to monitor all steps of game that help to identify drawbacks before implementation and conduct improvement process in order to
enhances efficiency of game.

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BMP3003 Further Academic
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