Importance of Academic Integrity at University

Instructions for playing the game
Plagiarism affect the academic learning of student and to solve these problem, there are different
games. Development of game is important for a teacher to make them aware of plagiarism and
helps them to solve plagiarism problem. The game which can helps the student to prepare strategies
to avoid plagiarism is “Plagiarism room” as it helps them to solve this problem in their academic
career. This game will help the student in avoiding unauthorised use of others article or content.
Using others content without giving them credit is considered as theft and student are liable for
penalties. This game is based on a software which helps to solve problem of plagiarism. To use this
game, teachers can provide small assignment to their students whch helps them to solve problem
related to plagiarism in academic life. This game include a function through which teachers can
generate assignment to their students which is small assignment which create interest of their
students. To complete this task they need to follow following steps which are as follows:
• To play this game, students need to first install this application in their mobile phones or their
personal computers. After that they need to put some necessary information in it which helps to
understand teacher which student are using that game.
• After that students need to open this game, by opening this game, there are various tool shown
on screen. Students need to tap on new assignment game. With this a assignments of 100 words
has shown. In which they type content.
• This game include a tool name plagiarism detector in which if one can upload their content, this
will highlight plagiarism line which helps students to improve their writing skills.
• It also include small practice tool namely fun with plagiarism in which one need to type short
content and after completion of that content it will show percentage of plagiarism in content
which helps to improve their skills.
• Teachers can use this feature namely fun with plagiarism as it helps them to improve their
knowledge as well as writing skills as it helps them to avoid plagiarism while writing.
Plagiarism room is a game in which there are various tool that can be used by student to avoid
plagiarism in their project work. It is easy to understand this game for student because to user
friendly display which make easier to complete assessment without any plagiarism in their
content.
• There are various tool in this game which does not based on manual search instead it is
automatic and detect plagiarism in research report.. It will helps teacher to be more focused on
grammar, content and style of project or research.
• This game integrated with learning management system which helps teacher and student to get
interact at one platform. It is not required for students and teacher to download papers. This
game is developed to improve writing skills of students as software of this game include both
writing assistant as well as tool of learning enhancement.
BMP3003 Further Academic Skills
An explanation of why academic
integrity at University is so important
Important for learning: academic integrity at universities
are important as it allow student to learn. Students are
coming to universities to learn and it is important for them
to maintain academic integrity. Academic integrity helps
them to learn things with out using other work and allow
them to prepare research by their own.
Maintain quality of teaching and
learning: Academic integrity helps to improve quality of
teaching as by allowing copy of others content does not
improve learning of students To avoid cheating, teachers are
teaching qualitatively to students and helps students to learn
with more focus as they are assessed on basis of their
learning.
Future employment: It is important to
maintain academic integrity as learning and knowledge will
helps a student in future employment. Not maintaining
academic integrity at universities can impact on
employment of a person. It is important to work with
honesty and fairness as it is important for ethical values of
person.
Laws, rules and regulation: It is
important to maintain academic integrity as there are some
rules and regulation for teacher and students to follow these
academic integrity. If they not maintaining academic
integrity, universities can charge penalty for that cheating or
suspend students or teacher.
Avoid misconduct: Academic integrity
helps to avoid misconduct and cheating in completing a
research paper. It promote fairness and honesty in academic
work of students and allow them to learn more deeply. It
also improve ability of teacher to teach student and allow
them to provide extra knowledge to students.
Game Design Skills used to produce the game
There are different skills which is required to
develop a game that helps to avoid plagiarism. Game
development require skills like IT skills, creativity, problem
solving, communication skills. All these kills has helps me to
develop Plagiarism Room game which issued to detect
plagiarism and include instruction to avoid plagiarism. These
skills are as follows:
Communication skills: Communication
skills is developed by me to effectively represent thoughts and
ideas in game. It helps me to explain instruction to use this
game. Communication skills in game is most important as it
shape the development process of game.
Creativity and Culture: Game development
process require creativity as it is important to develop different
game. I explore my creativity in this task which is helpful to
avoid plagiarism. This game will helps user to avoid plagiarism
and also is convenient. I also need to understand preference and
taste of people who are going to use this game.
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