Goblin Threat: A Game for Academic Integrity

Goblin Threat is an engaging online game designed to educate players about academic integrity and plagiarism. Players navigate a virtual environment, encountering goblins that represent different forms of academic misconduct. By clicking on these goblins, players are presented with quizzes testing their knowledge of plagiarism and ethical research practices. The game's objective is to eliminate all goblins by answering the quizzes correctly, ultimately promoting a deeper understanding of academic integrity and its importance in higher education.

GAME RULES
BMP3003 Further Academic Skills
SIGNIFICANCE
Academic integrity is important for the university and new idea generation. The significance
is as follows-
• Academic integrity is the fundamental of research, teaching and learning at the
universities. The concept of academic integrity helps students and faculties in gaining the
freedom to generate new knowledge, ideas, creativity and works along with respecting
the knowledge and work of other authors (Soroya et al., 2016). Respecting work of other
people and presenting their work effectively will help the university in maintaining
creativity status and respect for other people. The status and reputation of the university
rely on the way the students and staff work within the university. It is essential for the
university to be trustworthy and consistent in standards assessments and courses that
maintain trust among peoples (Sotiriadou et al., 2019).
• Academic integrity is crucial because dishonest behaviour undermines the learning and
credibility of the university. Academic integrity helps in safeguarding the university's
reputation, reflects the effectiveness of the university and adds to the wellbeing of the
society (Kaktiņš, 2019). Utilisation and adaptation of policies and rules maintain the legal
and ethical reputation of the universities in the world which is essential for the growth
and progress of university as well as for students and staff. The utilisation and
consideration of academic integrity within the universities by students and faculties
enhances the chances of creativity and innovation by improvising and utilising their
creativity (Soroya et al., 2016).
• Academic integrity consideration within the universities contributes to maintaining
fairness and transparency in work by following the policies and ethics related to academic
integrity. The policies reduce the chances of dishonesty, unfairness and inequality.
Honesty, courage, fairness, values, respect and responsibilities are the principles of
academic integrity on which the status and progress of universities rely (Kaktiņš, 2019).
Academic integrity maintains the learning quality of students by allowing them to obey
the policies and procedures properly. Creating the work by own without using the
knowledge and information of other people enhances the creativity level, quality and
uniqueness of work that helps the students in enhancing knowledge and skills along with
creating a unique position in the university (Sotiriadou et al., 2019).
GOBLIN THREAT
Goblin Threat is an online game that contributes to enhancing the knowledge and
skills of the player towards plagiarism and academic integrity. The game is a single-
player game in which the player needs to find and click the goblins hidden in the
room that provides a quiz based on plagiarism and academic integrity. The
elimination of each goblin will help the players in maintaining academic integrity
and winning the game. The motive of the game is to enhance the academic integrity
concept and plagiarism knowledge among players.
Objectives of the game
The key objective of the game is to enhance and improve the knowledge and
understanding of students/players about academic integrity and plagiarism by
answering the quizzes.
WHY ACADEMIC INTEGRITY IS IMPORTANT
AT UNIVERSITY
Game Design
SKILLS USED FOR GAME
PRODUCTION
• Academic skills: academic skills including communication,
reading and writing skills are used on game development.
• Creativity skills: creativity skills are used in game
development for reducing the factor of plagiarism or
academic integrity misconduct.
• Technical skills: technical equipment like computer,
software and internet is used for developing the game on
an online platform.
• PowerPoint skills: PowerPoint skills are used for
developing a presentation of the game.
• Research skills: research skills including information
collection, evaluation of facts and presentation of the
results is used for making the game more effective.
• Designing skills: graphics design, colour theory are used
for designing and developing the game in actual. clues and
instructions for players.
• Organising and management skills: management of time,
operations and activities are carried out properly for
maintaining the quality of the game.
• Writing and paraphrasing skills: writing and paraphrasing
skills are used for generating quizzes,
Name
• Soroya, M.S., Hashmi, M.A. and Soroya, S.H., 2016.
Academic Integrity: Effects of Demographic Variables on
Students' Conduct. South Asian Studies (1026-678X),
31(2).
• Sotiriadou, P., Logan, D., Daly, A. and Guest, R., 2019.
The role of authentic assessment to preserve academic
integrity and promote skill development and
employability. Studies in Higher Education, pp.1-17.
References
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GAME RULES
Goblin threat is a single player online game for which the player first needs to
enter the name and click on the start button. The instruction to play the game
will be provided which the player needs to read and continue until the game
begins.
Game initiation
• Entre into the game and find and click on each of the goblin hidden in the
room at different places.
• On clicking on the goblin a question will popup. If the player gets the right
answer, the goblin will be eliminated.
Game continuation
• On eliminating all the goblins from each place, the player will be able to
move on the next place.
• The game will continue till all the goblin does not get eliminated from the
place or till the academic integrity of the place will not be maintained.
Game finish
• The player who will give all the answers correctly along with eliminating all
the goblins will be the winners and highest scorer.
Game Hint
• In case of any confusion, the player can take a hind by clicking a hind book
anytime available in the game.

ACADEMIC INTEGRITY
Academic integrity is a commitment or moral code that governs academic institutions. It is the usual of ethics through which academia runs, the standards through which the organisations or universities ensure that publications, grades, teaching,
research and other academic efforts are organised in an honest and ethical way (Bygrave and Aşık, 2019). Some of the fields of concerns included in the academic integrity are as follows-
• Cheating assignments and assessments
• Subjectivism in grads- an assessor who provides unfair grads
• Plagiarism- copying someone else’s work, without providing credit (Devika and Sheela, 2020).
• Dishonesty in publication- material’s publication that misrepresents opinions, facts, and judgements.
• Research frauds- developing and completing research in an inconsistent way without accepting and adapting honesty and ethics that result in inappropriate conclusions.
• Administrative dishonesty- making unethical and inappropriate decisions, with respect to faculty, students, or policies (Devika and Sheela, 2020).
Q1. John researches and writes notes in his own words. Afterword’s, when
typing his essay, she does not accredit the author as they are not the
author's real words. John is plagiarising his research.
a) False
b) True
Q2. What are the benefits of citing the sources? State true or false.
c) Avoid Plagiarism
d) Avoids arrest
e) Benefits readers to find sources
f) Intellectual Property respect
g) Credibility addition
Q3. John can take and copy information from an encyclopedia without
texting the sources as the material is considered as shared knowledge. State
true or false.
h) The information available on encyclopedia is shared knowledge.
i) It relies on evidence and facts.
Q4. John can use an article without citing it in an online database only if:
j) It consists of only facts present in other articles.
k) The only use of abstract.
l) Not possible.
m) Used on class discussion.
Q5. John found an online article for preparing a PowerPoint presentation
that includes the issues he has been conferring in the classroom. How can he
correctly add the straight quote in his presentation from the article?
n) Parenthetical citation on that specific slide.
o) Citation on works cited slide.
p) Both a and b
q) Citations are not needed for PowerPoint presentation.
Q6. John is not good to write a paper will although he is good at
taking the test. He does lots of researches, decided to depend on
quotations and the typical job of citing his resources. Is it
considered under plagiarism?
a) While not dishonest, a significant part of writing papers in
representing the capability to create and synthesis new facts.
b) No, he cited all facts properly.
Q7. John wants to insert a learning cycle diagram in the term
papers. How can he do this responsibly?
c) Full citation in the bibliography
d) An in-text parenthetical citation
e) Both a and b
f) No requirement of citation in diagrams.
Q8. Preparing citation for a paper because of taking sloppy
notes_____________ plagiarism.
g) Is not
h) Is
Q9. If John got similar information from different articles he,
i) Must cite all sources
j) Only need one source
k) Must cite the once source with more information and
credibility.
l) No need for citation due to common knowledge.
Q10. John wrote a paper I freshman composition which he could
now use in his sophomore-level sociology course. He should…
m) Use the composition by changing a few words.
n) Not use the information as already credited.
o) Discuss with the professor before use.
p) Use the composition as he is the actual author.
SOME QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS OF THE QUIZ
Answer 1: b) True
Answer 2: b) Avoids arrests
Answer 3. b) It relies on evidence and facts.
Answer 4. c) Not possible.
Answer 5. c) Both a and b
Answer 6. a) While not dishonest, a significant part of
writing papers in representing the capability to create
and synthesis new facts.
Answer 7. c) Both a and b
Answer 8. b) Is
Answer 9. c) Must cite the once source with more
information and credibility.
Answer 10. c) Discuss with the professor before use.
REFERENCES
• Bygrave, C. and Aşık, Ö., 2019. Global Perspectives on
Academic Integrity.
• Devika, S. and Sheela, P., 2020. Perception of Prospective
Teachers on Academic Integrity. In Innovations in the
Designing and Marketing of Information Services (pp. 135-
147). IGI Global.
• Kaktiņš, L., 2019. Does Turnitin support the development of
international students’ academic integrity?. Ethics and
Education, 14(4), pp.430-448.
• Soroya, M.S., Hashmi, M.A. and Soroya, S.H., 2016.
Academic Integrity: Effects of Demographic Variables on
Students' Conduct. South Asian Studies (1026-678X), 31(2).
• Sotiriadou, P., Logan, D., Daly, A. and Guest, R., 2019. The
role of authentic assessment to preserve academic integrity
and promote skill development and employability. Studies in
Higher Education, pp.1-17.