Designing a Game for Academic Integrity and Plagiarism Awareness

Further Academic Skills
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Table of Contents
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INTRODUCTION
For student it is necessary to avoid plagiarism and maintain integrity in their work so that
they can obtain high marks. Besides, it enable them to work ethically in university. Also, it helps
in doing work in fair manner. Thus, here, a game is designed for student to avoid plag and know
about academic integrity. It is as follows :
GAME DESIGN
Playing to Win
Setting game
A game is set up in which a board is there for student to play. There are 4 columns in board
namely consequence of plagiarism, info sharing, unintentional plag and issue. There will be a TV
on which board is displayed. So, student will be able to see all board name and then play it.
How to play
There will be 3 teams in which there are 3 players in it.
A dice is rolled and which team gets 6 on dice will get chance to select number on board. The
number on board will be 10. 20, 30 40 and 50. Besides, there will be 25 blocks on board.
The block will contain different questions
In this difficulty level of question will arise with number. It means that at number 10 difficulty
level is low and at number 50 it will be highest (Akcaoglu, and Green, 2019).
The team who has got chance to play so member of that team will read question loud to all other
members. Then members can answer that question. There will be one question at a time.
Here, for giving right answer of 10 number, 5 point is added and for wrong 5 point is deducted.
Similarly, for giving right answer of 20 number, 10 point is added and for wrong 10 point is
deducted
Thus, for giving right answer of 30 number, 15 point is added and for wrong 15 point is deducted
Moreover, for giving right answer of 40 number, 20 point is added and for wrong 20 point is
deducted.
Furthermore, for giving right answer of 50 number, 25 point is added and for wrong 25 point is
deducted.
The time given to answer each question will be 30 seconds.
The team has to answer question in given time limit as no more time will be added or given for
it.
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