I-Plag: A Game for Understanding the Significance of Academic Integrity

I-Plag is a game designed to help students understand the importance of academic integrity and avoid plagiarism. The game involves a professor and a student player, with the professor asking questions about academic misconduct and the student answering. The game aims to increase knowledge and understanding of academic integrity and its importance in the education process. The skills used to produce the game include creativity, PowerPoint skills, research, writing, and time management. The game also discusses the negative impacts of academic misconduct on students and universities.

Instructions for playing the game
BMP3003 Further Academic Skills
Academic integrity at University is very important as this is effective for correct and appropriate
flow of education process and procedure in the University. There are various negative impact of
academic integrity on students as well as University. It has been analysed that issue of agreement
cheating in higher education. Lately, international work in the field of academic integrity has gone
to inspecting this issue, including taking a gander at the idea of agreement cheating, estimating the
predominance of the issue, uncovering contributory factors or reasons as to why a student might
outsource their assignment to an outsider, and investigating how higher education institutions can
adequately respond by upgrading both academic integrity strategy and educational approaches. It
has been identified that if as a student individual is conducting academic miscount or cheating
during the course of academic exercise than it will affect their learning opportunities. All through
higher education, it is critical that academic integrity is advanced and yet again asserted through
international and public initiatives, and institutional arrangement and practice. By drawing on
ongoing work that has upgraded our understanding of the issue of agreement cheating, higher
education institutions can focus on proceeding to foster institutional strategy for academic integrity.
Because of academic misconduct individual will not be able to improve required skill skills as well
as obtain education degree which will reflect their own academic achievements. Importance of
Academic Integrity - Students with integrity will strive to acquire their degrees in a reasonable and
honest manner by placing in the hours to study and finish assignments. At the point when a student
deliberately cheats through university, this integrity is compromised and the worth of the degree and
the morals of the individual are diminished. This absence of validity then, at that point, follows you
into the labour force and can affect your professional goals. No one wants a doctor who cheated to
get his medical degree to do a critical surgery on them or a terrible engineer to fabricate bridges.
Cheating and academic misconduct practices will lead to have major impact over learning and
knowledge capabilities of a person. Due to these practices individual career and goals will be
negatively affected. If the university graduates students who have not really procured their degrees,
and it gains a terrible standing for its graduates, all graduates and their instructors will have
diminished validity. Graduating students searching for jobs or passageway into graduate school or
graduate school might be kept from accomplishing their goals; employees applying for research
grants or submitting research for distribution may not be successful. The adverse consequence of
cheating text comment marker in any structure has gradually expanding influences past the quick
consequences. Academic miscount and violation of education policies will lead to affect values of
university community.
The game for student that develops strategies for avoiding plagiarism and
academic misconduct is I-Plag. This game is developed for two or more
players in which one person is student and one is professor. The professor
player of this game have proper knowledge regarding academic
misconduct. This game will have one especial element which is consider
as the integrity. This is the power card that is designed for the student for
increasing their knowledge and information about the different aspects.
The main motive of this game is to assist student for gaining information
as well as understanding about the significant of academic integrity so that
they do not consider any practice of academic misconduct during the
examination or assignments in the school and university.
Game rules
The individual that is playing for the Professor will have 5 ethic cards that
will includes questions regarding the academic misconduct on the one side
of the cards and other side will include answer of the question. Other
player who is student will have 3 cards of letter A, B and C. student player
will be select the cards for answering the question of the professor player.
Professor could randomly pick one ethic cards and read to questions
loudly so that student players could answer accordingly. Player who will
give right answer will get 10 points on each correct answer. At the end of
the game individual player who have maximum cards will be the winner
of the game.
An explanation of why academic
integrity at University is so important
Game Design
Skills used to produce the game
• I have determined that there are different
skills and capabilities has been developed
by producing the game. It is essential for
a person to have right and accurate skills
set which is necessary for successfully
and effectively developing a game.
• Through this my creativity skills has
been enhanced as I was able to develop
very creative game that is helpful for
providing information about academic
miscount. I have determined that my
power point skills has been increased and
now I am able to use power point in very
creative and innovative manner.
• By producing this game my research,
writing and academic knowledge or
skills has been significantly enhanced.
Through this I am able to organise
different type of task and activities in
correct and accurate manner. My time
management skills has been developed
by producing the game.
• I have identified that during the process
of producing game I have to plan and
manage different task in correct and
appropriate manner. I have determined
that this assist me in improving time
management skills as I was able to
complete all set of task in right time as
well as accomplish desired goals.
Name - I-Plag

Q5. Can bribing
within academic
setting of an
institution lead in to
an Academic
Misconduct?
A) Yes
B) No
Q1. Every university
should promote
Academic Integrity ?
A) Yes
B) No
Q4. Which of the
following can be
stated as form of
Academic
Misconduct?
A) Cheating in an
examination
B) Plagiarism
C) Reference from
Academic Journals
D) A and B
A3. The correct
answer is C.
A1. The correct answer
is A
A4. The correct
answer is D
A2. The correct answer
is C.
A5. The correct answer
is A
Q2. As per your
perspective, what should
be the ideal punishment
for Academic
Misconduct?
A) A warning
B) Detention
C) Debarred from the
examination
Q3. Select the most
appropriate solution
for dealing with
Academic
Misconduct.
A) Counselling
lectures
B) Peer assignment
and activities
C) All of the above
Answers
Questions

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• Jerke, J., and et.al., 2021. Handle with Care: Implementation of the List Experiment and
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