University Academic Integrity Game Design Project: Play to Win

This project details the design of a game intended to educate students about academic integrity. The game, titled "Play to Win," is structured like a TV game show, where teams of students answer questions related to plagiarism, information sharing, and unintentional academic misconduct. The game board includes a grid with varying point values and difficulty levels. Teams roll a die to select a question, and points are awarded or deducted based on the correctness of their answers within a 30-second time limit. The project emphasizes the importance of academic integrity within the university setting, highlighting its role in fostering trust, ethical behavior, and the development of new knowledge. The project includes a section on why academic integrity is important and references several academic sources. The skills used to produce the game include research and analysis skills, problem solving, decision making, and IT skills.

Further academic skills
GAME DESIGN
Play to win
Setting up
Here, a board is set up for student to play game. The board contains of 4 columns that are consequence of plagiarism, info sharing,
unintentional plagiarism and other issues. The players are easily able to see board. It is like a TV game.
How to play
In this a 5 teams will be formed that consists of 3 members each.
Each round will begin by rolling a dice. So, who so ever gets number 6 on dice will have chance to select a number on board.
On board there will be number that is 100, 200, 300, 400 and 500. Thus, in total there will be 25 blocks placed on board.
On each block there will be different question.
The difficulty level of question will vary as per number and block. It means at 100 point difficulty will be low and at 500 it will be high.
The team who got 6 on dice will chose a number and read question loud to their team members.
The members will have to give right answer for question.
For answer to right question of 100 number, 5 point will be added. But for wrong answer 5 point will be deducted.
Similarly, for right question of 200 number, 10 point will be added. But for wrong answer 10 point will be deducted.
For right question of 300 number, 15 point will be added. But for wrong answer 15 point will be deducted.
For right question of 400 number, 15 point will be added. But for wrong answer 15 point will be deducted.
And for right question of 500 number, 20 point will be added. But for wrong answer 20 point will be deducted.
However, 30 seconds will be time given to answer questions.
If team is not able to answer in 30 seconds than no more time will be given.
Each team will get chance of chose number when 6 is got by rolling dice.
Thus, each team will get chance for rolling dice and team that score 100 points will be declared as winner.
There is be no points given to half correct answer to question.
Also, no bonus point will be given.
Skills used to produce the game
Research and analysis skills
Problem solving skill
Decision making skills
IT skills
REFERENCES
Books and journals
Brown, N. and Janssen, R., 2017. Preventing plagiarism and fostering academic integrity: A practical
approach. Journal of Perspectives in Applied Academic Practice, 5(3), pp.102-109.
Eaton, S.E., Guglielmin, M. and Otoo, B., 2017. Plagiarism: Moving from punitive to pro-active
approaches.
Kadam, D., 2018. Academic integrity and plagiarism: The new regulations in India. Indian journal of
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Kier, C.A., 2019. Plagiarism intervention using a game-based tutorial in an online distance education
course. Journal of Academic Ethics, 17(4), pp.429-439.
Tran, U.T., Huynh, T. and Nguyen, H.T.T., 2018. Academic integrity in higher education: The case of
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White, A., 2020. Interactive approaches to learning about academic integrity: the role of fun and
Why academic integrity at University is important
In University there are certain laws and regulation which needs to be followed.
Basically, they are standards that state what is fair and not. The rules state that student
need to be fair in their work. Academic integrity is important as it allows student to work
with trust and in fair way in University. Also, if student does not follow with rules and
regulations than it may impact on their studies and future growth. Besides that, student
may also get failed in their assignment if integrity is not maintained. Furthermore, it
highly damage University reputation as well. Moreover, it is found that if integrity is not
maintained then it not bring positive outcomes for University. Hence, their time and
money is wasted. Along with that, academic integrity also help in daily life. Furthermore,
integrity also enable student to build new ideas, knowledge, etc. They respect work of
others and acknowledge knowledge as well. The student work and learn with honesty.
Also, it helps student to avoid bad consequence in assignment that led to bringing negative
comment in their report. The student practice knowledge in ethical way. Therefore, they
learn things with positive attitude and gain knowledge. So, it shows student trust, values
and respect for each other and university. The academic integrity also shows path on how
new knowledge can be built. Besides, people get credit for info and idea which is used in
it. The student is able to acknowledge knowledge and idea properly. The integrity helps in
preventing misconduct of knowledge. It keeps student on right track.