BMP3003: Academic Integrity & Game Development Reflective Report

This report explores the critical concept of academic integrity, emphasizing its significance in higher education, including its role in fostering ethical behavior, preventing misconduct like cheating and plagiarism, and upholding standards in research and publishing. It details the importance of universities enforcing legal regulations, utilizing talented professors, developing student self-confidence, and maintaining transparency and fairness. The report also reflects on the practical application of these principles through the development of a game designed to raise awareness about academic integrity. It discusses the steps taken in producing the game, the difficulties encountered such as ensuring easy usage and identifying the best resources, and the skills learned during the process, including creative and critical thinking. The conclusion reinforces the importance of academic integrity in universities and highlights the skills gained from the game development experience, emphasizing the value of creating original content.

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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
SECTION 1......................................................................................................................................1
Description of Academic Integrity..............................................................................................1
Importance of academic integrity in higher education. .............................................................1
Implications of academic integrity misconduct .........................................................................2
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................3
Reflect on the steps taken to produce the game..........................................................................3
Difficulties faced ........................................................................................................................4
Skills learned this academic year and those emphasised in producing the game ......................4
CONCLUSION ...............................................................................................................................5
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................6

INTRODUCTION
Education is consider as the most important part in the life of an individual as it work as
the strength of students in their future development. Basically academic integrity add the values
and standard in education. Academic skills such as critical thinking, note taking and many more
helps the students in becoming the efficient learners and achieve the success in career. This
repost cover the meaning and importance of academic integrity along with the concept of
academic misconduct. In addition to this, the second part of this report include reflection on steps
taken and difficulties faced while producing game along with the required skills which are being
used in producing game.
SECTION 1
Description of Academic Integrity.
This concept is consider as the commitment and demonstration of the moral and honest
behaviour in academic setting. Academic integrity means opposing the frank behaviour towards
cheating and various other misconducting actions i.e. accelerative in educate day by day and they
even empower it as a brave and competent activity. In simple words, it can be described as the
operations with the values of equity, property, loyalty, acquisition and hunting. It also act as a
legal document which add values like avoiding the plagiarism and cheating along with managing
the standard of academics such as honesty in academic and research publishing.
Importance of academic integrity in higher education. Laws: Universities provide several rigorous legalities which have been made by
government which also include several farinaceous punishments, fines and situation in
grave condition for mis-behavior learning action. Use of talented professors: Talented professors is one of the essential element in
university for managing academic integrity effectively. Because with help of talented
professors students easily gained the useful knowledge which is useful for increasing
their ability and career growth in long term. Development of student self-confidence: It refers to increasing the confidence of
students internally with help of facilitating motivating knowledge to them. In such type of
universities professors always concentrate on the weakness of the student which includes
communication problems and analytical problems. Then, according to that solution are
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provided by teachers in form of assignments and case studies which leads to enhance
their performance easily. Maintaining transparency and fairness: It refers to facilitates resources and teaching to
all categories of students equally and effectively (Ugoani, 2020). Effective transparency
helped institutes and students for maintaining good relationship with parents and also
helped to enhanced their productivity. When universities maintained fairness then
definitely large number of parents ready to pay fees for their kids. Because parents
believed that performance of the children are monitored by teachers on regular basis.
Implications of academic integrity misconduct Cheating: In today's world, cheating is the term which is used commonly. It has been
found that breaking rules and regulations is now a part of life of an individual. If the term
cheating is being used in the educational practices, it means that the learners are
performing any unfair actions while completing assignments and projects. Majorly, the
students undertake the practices of cheating at the time of examinations and various
sections of actions which are being performed during their higher studies. Social: the social life of an individual may get impacted by any misconduct undertaken
by any student. For instance, if the student is being performing cheating practices in the
past and then it become it's habit of cheating for the longer time. Such activities build a
bad image of an individual which also result in the dissatisfaction and low self confidence
of an individual. This misconduct implies the development of bad habit in the friend
circle of individual as well. The individual conducting the activities of cheating
demotivate the other people while performing the work. Plagiarism: It refers to the practices of repeating the content or material of any other
person and use the content without mentioning any reference or name of the writer. This
activity is related to the plagiarism. It is not essential that the plagiarism must be in
graphic information variety, it can also be in written, chart, articulate or coded form.
Acting this action deliberately without offering needed remark may change of course out
to be legally difficult. In some cause it has been found that the thievery some rational
property of others. This activity can impact in the academic marks for the scholar. As the
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academician check the plagiarism of each individual document which is been posit by an
individual. Falsification of academic record: It has been found that it is the most offense type of
mislead which have been performed by an individual to have any degree or practice any
fraud. Under this, a person send the other person at their place for the purpose of
conducting the assessment and exam at his place. It is found as the most unethical activity
which have been performed for the purpose of getting a particular job role.
 Collusion: At the time of submission of project and assignment, this activity have been
performed. It is possible only in the case when there is more than one student is involved
in the task. This project have been given by professor to the individual learner but the
students discuss this task in a group. It also include the higher chances of using the used
data again which is consider as the misconduct. The project should be completed by a
single individual but the involvement of several students result in the use of same content
again and again.
TASK 2
Reflect on the steps taken to produce the game
On the basis of above discussion related to the importance of academic integrity, it has
been found that the academic integrity is the most vital aspect which an individual is require to
be undertaken. As it has been found that the academic management and the usage of the partial
way is been practice in the world and it is moving the life an individual in its career. I felt the
need of a tool or game which can help me in avoiding the normal misconducting activity i.e.
plagiarism. Due to the plagiarism, I develop the idea of conducting a game creating the
awareness of importance of academic integrity towards my friends and other people available in
the university. It is the reason behind designing the game which is helpful in analysing the
creation or originality of content or material which is also useful in enhancing the skills of
students or learners. For the purpose of creating a strong team, I started performing the activities
within the group of individuals. It also help me in introducing the creativity in the groups. Due to
the group of individual, I am able to create the game otherwise it was not possible for me to
develop game without taking help of any other person. It was really a complex game, which
require the skills of multiple people to be build in a successful manner. In addition to this, I also
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managed several resources which are necessary for me to design the game such as computers,
coding software and a place in the university of less disturbance. Once the process of designing
the game has been start, I have to perform the task of overlooking and managing the team in an
effective and efficient manner. All the team members work effectively in order to distinguishing
the major issues which are required to be addressed. In order to attracting the users to play the
game, I also added some colours and textures. Along with this, in order to avoiding the
inconvenience of players, I also use specified coding which require full attention and time.
Difficulties faced
While designing the game me and my team members faced respective issues which are
required to be undertaken so that it does not repeat from the next time. Some of the issues are
discussed over here:
 Easy usage- The target audience which I identified while designing this game was the
students. But I forget that there can be some people who do not have a good knowledge
of the computer. So while designing the game it should have the easy procedures so that
bit can be played by everyone(Dixon and George, 2021S).
 Designs, context- The deigning and the use of the graphic and colours was the most
difficult part in designing the game. As there was several options so it was difficult for
me to choose that which one will be more suitable and attract the students so that they
show interest in the gamer.
 Identifying the bes resources- For making the project fascinating and better than the
competitors I needed the qualified resources such as our employees, data we used and
materials, software required. The difficult part in designing this game was to identify and
find these resources from the market and providing them the demanded fees. But despite
this I and my team members decided to find the resources within the budget.
Skills learned this academic year and those emphasised in producing the game
 Creative skills- This is the skill which shows the ability of an individual that how the
person thinks and find the solutions to the problems. In context of the task, it helped me
and my team members in developing our creative skills. I was able to creative and
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develop the new certain ways in w3hich the game can be planned in order to make
attractive and interested. As working in a team suggested the different view point of the
individual. Then we merged the different ideas and came up with a unique solution. I was
able to develop the creative thinking by managing the team and allowing them to give
their suggestions which helped me in creating the creative idea(opova, 2020).
 Critical thinking- This is the skill which enhance the ability of an individual to think in
an organised and rational manner in order to understand the connections between ideas
and facts. I was able to develop my critical thinking where I was not sure about the game
which is been conducted but to motivate the other members I was able to give them
surety that this can enhance and develop an individual in learning the importance of the
academic integrity(Henning and et.al., 2020).
CONCLUSION
From the above report it is concluded that academic integrity is the primary region which
require to be accumulated by the people and it can welfare the social group in the several
manner. There is the need to the any belief which essential to be precede by the universities and
they require that the student perusing follow the regulation and concept. This have the huge
contact on the picture of the universities. It is very essential for the students to realize that the
academic wrongdoing can despoilation their career and the honour of an individual. Graduating
from the well known university is the big accomplishment which help the student in future in
their career. For scheming the game there were several trouble which I faced and also at the same
case I and my team members was able to evolve the skills which are required in the higher
education. The action helps the students in raise their skills and the value of creating the primary
contented in the assignments can lead to the good marks in the academics of an individual.
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