Learn Plag: A Game to Educate Students about Plagiarism and Academic Integrity

Learn Plag is a game designed to educate students about different types of plagiarism and academic integrity. It consists of learning sessions, quizzes, and scores to help students avoid academic misconduct.

Game design
INTRODUCTION
Academic misconduct refers to the process in which the student attempt to perform
unfair actions in the university. The misconduct performed by student impacts the
academic integrity of the university, this is done to gain an academic advantage by
performing act such as collusion, plagiarism and contract cheating. To avoid these
academic misconducts such as plagiarism, a game is developed below.
Design a game
Plagiarism is one of the activities that is conducted by the students of the university in
their academic writing. To educate the students about the concept and further make the
student to avoid usage of any kind of these misconduct, a game named ‘Learn Plag’ is
developed so that the students can learn about different types of plagiarisms and
further avoid the usage of these in their academic writing.
Structure and model of ‘Learn Plag’:
The game is majorly divided into three sections in which the one
section is dedicated towards the learning part whereas the other part is focused on a
quiz game based on the learning part. The third section is based on the scores that the
candidates who have registered on the game scores while playing the quiz game. The
scoring is based on the point system where each right consecutive answer gets
rewarded with 1 point.
Instructions to play ‘Learn Plag’:
• In order to get access to the gaming material the candidate is required
to put in the credentials of their account. At first they are required to
create an account in which they are required to put in the personal
information. This information will be kept private and confidential
with the usage of best data security tools.
• The login page takes the candidate to a page in which there are
several options such as learning, quizzes and scores.
• The learning sessions consists of videos and reading material through
which the candidate will learn about the different types of plagiarism
and their usage in academic writing. This learning sessions contains
the content of almost an hour in which all the essential information is
covered.
• Once the student has learnt, they can further play the quiz in which
the candidate will be asked questions that are based on the learning
given in the previous option in the game.
• There is a score which is based on the streak that the candidate is able
to maintain while answering all the questions right.
• There are hundreds of questions in the AI of game which gives more
and more variety to the candidates in term of content.
Importance of academic integrity
Academic integrity is essential in the university and the students are
required to maintain this, Academic integrity is based on five pillar. The
five pillars on which integrity is based are discussed below:
• Trust
• Honesty
• Fairness
• Respect
• Responsibility
REFERENCES
• Anderman, E.M. and Won, S., 2019. Academic cheating in disliked classes. Ethics
& Behavior, 29(1), pp.1-22.
• Flisberg, A., 2017. Designing tutoring, feedback and gameplay of a mobile game:
For pick-up-and-play and long-term playing.
• Fullerton, T., 2019. Game design workshop: a playcentric approach to creating
innovative games. AK Peters/CRC Press.
Conclusion
From the above discussion it can be concluded that
academic misconduct is one of the common thing and
these activities need to be stopped in the university as it
impacts the personality of the student and the general
decorum of the institution is also impacted. Developing
a game can help the students in learning about the
concept of academic misconduct and integrity. This will
ensure that the students don’t further conduct these
activities in their piece of academic writing.