Further Academic Skills: Game Design for Academic Integrity BMP3003

This assignment presents a game design project created by a student for the Further Academic Skills module (BMP3003), focusing on academic integrity and the prevention of plagiarism and misconduct. The project includes the design of a game using face cards and MCQs to educate students on the importance of integrity within a university setting. The solution provides detailed game instructions, explaining the rules, scoring system, and the role of the professor. It also emphasizes the significance of academic integrity, referencing key sources such as Gikay (2019), Imam, Grose, and Mazid (2020), and Stacey (2019), highlighting its role in fostering new ideas, building reputation, and shaping ethical behavior. The project includes a reflection on the skills used, such as research, writing, creativity, and problem-solving, in the game's development. The assignment concludes with example questions and a comprehensive list of references, adhering to academic standards and demonstrating a strong understanding of the subject matter. This comprehensive project serves as a valuable resource for students seeking to understand and promote academic integrity.

Further Academic Skills
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Table of Contents
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................3
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................3
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................6
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TASK 1
Game design
Integrity game
A game is designed by professor in which he will be having deck of 52 cards. There will
be 10 students who will participate in it. The purpose of game is to make student understand
importance of integrity and misconduct in university.
TASK 2
Instructions of game
The professor will be having a deck of 52 cards but only face cards will be used by professor to
play game.
There are 10 students who will participate in game.
There are 12 face cards of different colour.
The student will have to firstly choose a colour and then select a face card randomly. Then, they
have to answer question which is written behind that face card.
For that they will having time of 30 seconds.
Questions will be MCQ based.
All face card questions will be different.
The student must chose correct option for the question in order to give right answer.
Professor will tell correct answer to student.
For giving correct answer student will get 5 points and for giving wrong answer no points will be
given.
Student who score 50 points will be winner.
Why academic integrity is necessary in University?
In the view of Gikay (2019), to study in university student are required to follow
academic integrity. This is important because it helps in creating new ideas, building a good
reputation, etc. Also, it helps them in their daily life. This also help them in their career. Student
learn and gain new ideas and knowledge and practice it in daily life. Besides, they work in
ethical and fair way in personal life as well. Apart from it, skills of student is enhanced by
following path of academic integrity. They work in honest way by which they are able to create
new ideas.
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The integrity also set guidelines for university to ensure that no unethical practices are
being followed. The students has to adhere all guidelines in their studies. Moreover, rules also
binds tutors to not to engage or tolerate unethical practices. However, in the view of Imam,
Grose and Mazid (2020), there are certain challenges which is faced by students such as trust,
honesty, etc. this leads to doing academic misconduct. Similarly, plagiarism is also a type of
misconduct as it refers to take ideas, copying others work, etc. It is common challenge that is
faced by students. Plagiarism can be of different types such as unintentional, complete, source
based, etc. this shows that student has copied ideas or text of another student.
This impact on integrity of student is negative way. It shows that they have worked in
unethical way. Besides, there are other penalties imposed as well on them. They might get
terminated or suspended from university (Stacey 2019 ). Therefore, it impact negatively on their
studies and also leading to wastage of their time and money.
Reflection of skills used
There were certain skills which is used. With that I was able to develop a unique and
creative game of academic integrity. So, they are described as below:
Research skills- This skill was helpful as it enable me to gather info and data about type of
games are available, its features, how they are played, etc. I gained insight about what plagiarism
related games are, how it help student to gain knowledge, etc.
Writing skills- I used this skill to write game instructions, rules, etc. For that I used specific
words, proper punctuation, grammar, etc. With help of this I was able to write and design game
in effective way (Kleusch 2018)
Creativity skills- This skill helped me to bring out creativity and design unique game. I did write
about features of game, how it is played, etc. I was able to design game that was simple to play
and understand but it was creative.
Problem solving – I used this skill to solve problem during designing game. I faced certain
problems in it but I analysed then and find out solution of it. I also analysed solution so that what
is most suitable in it. This skill helped me to solve problem in effective way.
Questions
Q-1 Is it necessary to do reference for your work?
Yes
No
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Q-2 Does unintentional plagiarism can occur frequent times?
Yes
No
Q-3 Does informal writing is a crime or act of misconduct?
Yes
No
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REFERENCES
Books and journals
Gikay, A.A., 2019. A Tale of Plagiarism: Do Publishers Condone Academic Misconduct?.
Imam, T., Grose, R., and Mazid, A., 2020. Contract cheating and plagiarism in technical
disciplines: A conceptual reflection from multidisciplinary perspectives.
Kleusch, S., 2018. Academic misconduct in online education.
Stacey, A., 2019, June. Reframing Plagiarism in Academia 4.0. In 18th European Conference on
Research Methodology for Business and Management Studies (p. 305).
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