Game Design Project: Snipping Plagiarism and Academic Integrity

This project details the design of an educational game called 'Snipping Plagiarism,' aimed at teaching students about academic integrity and how to avoid plagiarism. The game's structure involves a card-based system where students answer questions about academic misconduct and earn points. The game's objective is to foster a deeper understanding of ethical practices, honesty, and the importance of original work, with the goal of encouraging students to develop a strong sense of academic integrity. The project includes instructions for playing the game, explaining its structure and the learning objectives it aims to achieve. The student reflects on the skills used to produce the game, highlighting the opportunity to create an engaging and informative tool to address plagiarism, a significant issue in academic environments. The conclusion emphasizes the game's role in promoting ethical behavior and the value of academic integrity within universities, providing a valuable resource for students to learn about and avoid plagiarism.

Game Design
 Trust: This factor leads to start and maintain the suitable
relationship among other within university. For this, trust is the
suitable factor that leads to bring best from everything and organise
fair and ethical practices.
 Honesty: It is represented as the sincerity and discipline in the
working manner of students. Within university, students and the
instructors are developing fair and pure relationship as this action
leads to add value to other factors of academic integrity.
A summary of your reflection on the skills used to produce the game
It depicts the great opportunity for me in order to design the knowledgeable
and ethical game for students in order to motivate them to be creative and
teach them to avoid plagiarism in their work and academic misconduct.
Moreover, after analysing the overall situation of academic misconduct and
practice of plagiarism, I was able to learn and properly study suitable topic
in depth that has given me the fair lesson of being fair and honest in work. I
have the habit of fair and ethical working that reflect the design and
structuring of suitable questions of the game. As this process of designing
the game tends to develop knowledge regarding the academic integrity
factors like honesty, trust, respect and duties towards my work and also
helps in making my career more valuable in future. Along with this, the
model or game of Snipping Plagiarism leads to reflect my overall experience
and knowledge which is useful for students to neglect academic misconduct
like plagiarism and work with integrity in order to become successful to
attract others with trust and honesty.
Introduction
Plagiarism refers the concept in which other individual leads to steal idea
of another one or work and present it by their own name and it relies under
the category of academic misconduct. In order to avoid such plagiarism
and academic misconduct from the working pattern of students and their
assessment a game is being developed that helps in mitigating and
avoiding plagiarism from the assessment of people. In this context,
students need to develop knowledge about the unethical practices among
students along with its impact over the learning life of students. Hence, the
game is being designed in order to develop the overall knowledge of
academic integrity and also neglecting plagiarism. It leads to outline the
significance of academic integrity among students which is useful to
develop game.
Plagiarism is an issue in academics and become barrier in the
learning life of students as it leads to compromise the integrity of working
pattern among students and hinder the learning and knowledge of students.
It has been observed that students learning results are fast through games
as it tends to foster the academic integrity within universities by following
the design of games including the suitable strategies to avoid plagiarism
and misconduct.
Snipping Plagiarism: It is a kind of online fun game which is
being designed for students in order to gain learning regarding the
academic integrity and also help them to avoid plagiarism and any sort of
misconduct in academics. This game is useful as it leads to represent the
characteristics which leads to recognise the honesty and morale of students
and their work and also helpful in order to neglect unethical practices to
gain academic advantage.
Structure and model of Snipping Plagiarism
Structure and working:
The suitable structure is based on the cards and classified into three
segments in which students need to flip the card in order to see question
and answer it. Each answer contains suitable points such as 20, 40, 50 and
so on and answers given by students provide them some points in order to
win game. The structure of game is developed with the objective to teach
and learn something new by providing suitable feedback to enhance their
overall performance. Each card carries few points and also divided into a
segments like:
 Avoid plagiarism
 Say no to academic misconduct
 Significance of academic integrity
Design and model of game:
The game is named with Snipping Plagiarism as it snips the content and words which are being copied by
students and also how to neglect plagiarism. For this, each card gives some points on the basis of the
correction of answer. In regard of this, suitable image of this game is shown as underneath:
Instructions for playing the Plagiarism Captcha game
 To play the game, student need to login to the account for the security purpose and
authentication.
 Student need to flip the card in order to see question.
 Question tends to come with suitable options of answers and each option come with suitable
point and helps in giving option to student for uploading their assignment.
 Students should not leave game without getting personal feedback considering their
improvement and knowledge of academic integrity otherwise student is not able to upload
assignment.
 The questions will get change each and every time when student login through their portal.
Why academic integrity is important at university
Academic integrity depicts the quality that leads to demonstrate the academic setting by not
conducting any sort of unethical and unfair practice in the academic behaviour and working pattern.
It is the suitable principle of learning and teaching process as this quality should be present in both
teachers and students and some of its pillars are discussed as:
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CONCLUSION
Hence, it has been concluded that the game design is concerned with the
avoidance of plagiarism and academic integrity. Students are outreaching the
suitable ways in order to get their work done without any hard work and
knowledge. For this, it has now becoming quite important for the universities
to provide knowledge and spread awareness about the academic integrity.
Therefore, it is evaluated that game like Snipping Plagiarism is the suitable
way to spread knowledge regarding the academic integrity as it helps in
neglecting plagiarism from work.