Academic Captcha: A Game Design Report on Minimizing Plagiarism

This report explores the design of 'Academic Captcha,' an online game aimed at improving academic knowledge and minimizing plagiarism among students. The game features a structure with multiple segments, each containing questions with varying point values. Students have a limited time to select the correct answer, earning points based on their choices. The report highlights the importance of academic integrity, emphasizing trust, honesty, fairness, respect, and responsibility. It addresses different types of plagiarism, such as self-plagiarism, direct plagiarism, accidental plagiarism, and mosaic plagiarism, and explains how the game aims to counteract these unethical behaviors. By engaging with 'Academic Captcha,' students are encouraged to develop critical thinking and creative capabilities, fostering a deeper understanding of academic integrity and promoting ethical conduct in their academic pursuits. This document is available on Desklib, where students can find a wealth of study resources.

Game design
Academic misconduct refers to when an individual wants to take advantage and does
plagiarism or cheating through applying unethical actions. Plagiarism is described as
copying someone project without their concern. To avoid plagiarism and academic
misconduct within the students, educators must implement academic integrity. The
following report explains how plagiarism and academic misconduct could be
minimized through designing game called Academic captcha. This report also outlines
the importance of academic integrity within universities along with what skills an
individual could develop while developing this game.
Design a game
• Students conduct various types of plagiarism which minimize their thinking and
creative capabilities.
• This reduces their abilities to learn new skills which decrease their opportunity to
perform better.
• Plagiarism could be of many types such as self-plagiarism, direct plagiarism,
accidental plagiarism, and mosaic plagiarism. These unethical activities are done by
students purposefully or non-purposefully.
• To avoid this plagiarism a game has been designed which is called as Academic
Captcha.
Instruction to play game:
Academic Captcha is an online game which has been designed to improve
the academic knowledge of students. The game structure consist of three
segments and every sector consists of two questions. Each answer contains
points such as 10, 20, 30 and so on till 100. The instructions of games are as
follows:
Every student will be given a time period of 30 seconds in which they have
to select the right answer to the question.
The points will be given to the students according to their choose options.
The students must log in to their system with the ID assigned to them by
their educators.
Importance of academic integrity
Academic integrity is considered as the actions that are related to avoiding
plagiarism, cheating and other misconduct behavior in performing academic
work.
• Trust
• Honesty
• Fairness
• Respect
• Responsibility

Questions
Answers
While taking picture
from internet for
assignment it is
important to mention
source?
a) Yes
b) No
c) May be
While doing
paraphrasing it is right
to mention source?
a) Yes
b) No
c) May be
According to you it is
right to buy assignment
online?
a) Yes
b) No
c) May be
Correct
answer is A
Correct answer
is A
Correct answer
is B

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