BMP3003 Foundation: Academic Integrity & Game Development Project

This report provides an overview of academic integrity, emphasizing its importance in higher education and the implications of academic misconduct such as cheating, plagiarism, and falsification. It reflects on the process of developing a game for Project 2, detailing the steps taken, difficulties encountered, and skills learned, including critical thinking, time management, teamwork, and collaboration. The report concludes by reiterating the significance of academic integrity in maintaining ethical standards and fostering trust within educational institutions, while also highlighting the value of practical projects in developing essential skills for future professional success. The student also reflects on how the game helps detect unfair means in task completion and the ethical behavior practiced during the project.

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BMP3003
Further Academic Skills
Academic Integrity
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Contents
Introduction p
Section 1 p-p

An Introduction including a description of Academic Integrity
p
A discussion of the importance of academic integrity in higher
education p
Discuss the implications of academic misconduct p
Section 2 p-p
Reflect on the steps you have taken, and difficulties encountered in
producing the game for Project 2 p
Reflect on the skills you have learned this academic year and those
emphasized in producing your game p
Conclusion p
References p

Introduction
Academic integrity assist in performing the task in ethical way and learning the new
abilities that will be useful in future so that the student can use these learning in their
professional line and in their workings. This assist in growing the knowledge of the
individual with their rising and development. It includes the fair means of completion of
task and teach to avoid the unfair means of using unfair means. This is essential in
the academic institutions ans the students life (Pethrick, 2020). It provides a methods
of learning, readings, writing and much more. In this report will learn about the academic
integrity and the importance of having academic integrity and the misconduct of the
techniques.
Section 1
An Introduction including a description of Academic Integrity
Academic integrity is the seriousness to and presentation of honorable and motive
activity in an domain surround. This is most applicable at the educational
institution level as it associate to furnish recognition to other group when using
their opinion. In other words it needs declare the attempt of other people. Failure
is such acknowledgment is considered plagiarism.
It is a main core in learning. The more person grows in school or university,
gets a knowledge about the things that can be useful in future. It values avoiding
cheating and plagiarism. The mentors and teachers want that their students utilize
their knowledge and their learning that will be beneficial fir their professional life.
It is considered that doing work and learn the thing properly and avoid the mis
chiefs that could give the bad impact on the performance of the person and can
create a bad image in the eyes of the guider or mentor (Thomas and Jeffers, 2020).
It includes the responsibility and honesty in scholar or during the assignment by
avoiding the unlicensed materials during the exams and indecent cooperation. It
considered extremity a task twice for individual courses, forging, fabricating or
changing documents to get academic benefits or assisting others in misconduct.
Discouraging or trying to bribe someone to secure to prevent them from reporting
misconduct violets the code of integrity.

The six set belief of academics integrity that include trust,fairness, courage,
honesty and responsibility. A person who holds the values of academic shows
respect for his mates and teachers. it is extremely disrespectful to cheat in
exams,that the other ones have sacrificed so much time on reading and learning to
get a good remarks and grade (Orr, 2018).
A discussion of the importance of academic integrity in higher
education
It plays a vital role in persons life as it is useful in future life. This is due to
developing integrity is major in perceiving the course and study. It is mandate in
every sector that it helps in every ares whether it is long or short area. It gives a
direction to the person to done a task ethically and properly. As it is mandatory in the
completion of the particular task or lesson by getting a good knowledge.
it help In developing the personal skills and the power of working and give
the motivation in working properly (Vogt, 2020) or fairly it taughts avoiding the unfair
practices in the exams and assignments. It believes that doing work and task in fair
means by using the capability and learning that has learned will increase the
personal skills and give the experience by completing of the task or project that is
assigned by the mentors.
Academic honesty is the key to taking up the instruction and research at the
university. It permits understudies and staff at the opportunity (Muthukamatchi
and Veerachamy, 2021) to assemble novel ideas, details and creative works
while reading and recognizing and crafted by others. It is important in institutional
areas which is concern about the ethical and the moral conducts in the academic
task. It hits the values and standard and working of the administration. This usually
concentrate on providing the thoughts, clarification and transparency in the
attitudes of the scholar or the mentor. This consist a various reasons that provides
the significance of academic integrity in all higher education areas
Discuss the implications of academic misconduct
Academic misconduct are the practices which is being done by doing various
activity that are done with the motive gaining the good remarks by doing these
wrong practices like cheating and many more. There are many things which is done
in order to framework a misconduct in all the administration (Gervais, 2020). Every

institution and person carries an important duties in regards to control the work
and also the follow integrity, some of the academic misconducts which are
described below.
 Refutation - This is the technique in which the scholar motive to addition
the good remarks by having some details to construct the information. It is
also the line and the information which is been build by the scholars so
as to misconception the pirate and to increase some essential collection.
 Cheating – This technique involves the practices which is being done by the
students during exam or completion of assignment. It is unethical manner of
finishing the task that is done with the aim of having a good remarks in the
exams or assessment.
 Plagiarism - it includes all the practices which is done from the other person
assignment it same as the copying and cheating of the details to have a
better completion. It is the method in which the person writes the same
works that is done by the others in the same duration. This is the unethical
method in the academic integrity (Duff and et, al., 2020).
All the above discussed point shows the unethical misconducts that are being done
by the students in order to have good marks In the academics duration.
This will make the lack of interest of students in university by this the studious
students will lose the hope because they have spend ed that lot of time in studies to
get a good marks. It also creates a bad image of the institution in the eyes of other
and the unequal environment in the university.
Section 2
Reflect on the steps you have taken, and difficulties encountered in
producing the game for Project 2

In current era, it is important to give to the academic integrity as education has
the taken great stage of necessity in present time. It is the motive to save the
goodwill as well as dignity of the institution and academics. In present because of
academic in conception, this puts a huge effect on the academics which includes
the cheating and plagiarism specifically (DiPaulo, 2021). So in command to secure
this and control the academic integrity, the ethical behavior that is being practice by
the students.
An thought which is analyzed by me was introduce a game which help in detect
the unfair means that has been used in the completion of task. After thinking I
thought about to implement the plan. I make a strategy that how the game is going
to be design and how it will work to save the unethical practices In the exams. First I
start spreading awareness about the game and the plan and start discussing on that
with the friends and teachers the topic that are related to the academic integrity.
I stated to collect the information regarding the game and the resources that will
be useful in the building the game. The main aim of creating the game is to reduce
the unfair practices ad increase ethical practices. I thought game should be attractive
and fun game that everyone show there interest in playing the game. After making
plan and strategy I decided to provide some online practice where in the player has
to first log in the portal in regards to response the quatrains which is related to the
academics. Further discussed below (Dawson, 2020).
While making game, there were many trouble which were featured by me which enclosed
the following-
 The hardest hurdle I have beard during launching the game was to
prepare the design and the outline of the game as I desired to design the
game that attract the players and influence them to play with the interest.
 The second obstacle I have faced is the pole of the enquiry as it is the
structure of total game. This is the very hard project I prepared a huge
amount of questions and the task was to choose what to put or what not.
 The other challenge I have faced was related to collection the game as
it is essential to be complete in the way of academic integrity is reflected
in the game. The design of the game should be communicate the
content of save the cheating and piracy from the literature writing
(CHRISTEN, 2021).

Reflect on the skills you have learned this academic year and those
emphasized in producing your game
There are various set of ability which has been utilized as well as knowing while making this
game which enclosed the following-
 Critical thinking skills - while producing the game I have learned thinking at wide
range. This project assessed in me in thinking at the different areas that are useful in
producing the game and that (Bretag, 2019). will be useful in future these skills help
me in completing the project creatively and innovate. The main aim of producing
the game is to attract the students and reducing the unfair means of academic
integrity.
 Time management - I always used to late from the time in every task and project
submission and that was my bad point. After implementing this game with the good
motive I have improved my skills of time management and finally I have competed
this project before deadline and I got a god results from the game.
 Team working - This project assist me in improving my ability of working in the
team and I have learned that while working in team the things are done more
creatively and innovatively. While creating a team I got a new learning from
different people, I got a new things and new lessons from the leanings.
 Collaboration - during designing the game I have learned to work with the
involvement of the others that teach me to how to deal patiently and to create a
peaceful and successful decision that helps in successfully completion of the task in
the institution.
These above discussed points will be useful in future and professional life that will create a
way of success in the achievement of the goals and objectives that are set for the personal
and professional growth (Barnhardt and Ginns, 2017).

Conclusion
From the preceding report it is considered that domain unity assist in managing the
ethical values and the moral benchmark of the institution and also build the believe
and encouragement in the scholar is important motive is to control scholars with
proper clearness, belongings and also with equivalence. The teachers and the
students should concentrate on using academic integrity in their attitudes.
Scholarly direction is the bad practices which are build by the scholars in regards
to have good remarks that can be gain but cheating, plagiarism and many more.
Moreover, this also be seen that the piracy can be distant from the definite lame
and techniques in the way to make the work more easy.
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