Strategies for Avoiding Plagiarism & Academic Misconduct: Ludo Game

This practical assignment details the creation of a Ludo game designed to educate students on academic integrity and strategies for avoiding plagiarism and academic misconduct. The assignment outlines the rules and conditions of the game, where players are prompted with questions about academic integrity and misconduct based on game events, such as being 'knocked out' by another player. The questions cover topics like defining academic misconduct, identifying its causes, explaining the importance of academic integrity, and defining plagiarism. The assignment also includes a poster presentation summarizing the game's purpose and rules, and a reflection on the skills used in developing the game. The goal is to provide an engaging and interactive way for students to learn about and understand the importance of academic honesty in higher education. Desklib provides access to this and other solved assignments.

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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY..................................................................................................................................3
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................3
Designing a game for students that develops strategies for avoiding plagiarism and academic
misconduct...................................................................................................................................3
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................4
Poster attached.................................................................................................................................4
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................4
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................1

INTRODUCTION
Academic misconduct is any action which gains or assists others in attempting to gain
unfair academic within higher education and University (Biagioli and et.al., 2019).
The report will analyse that Task 1 will explain Ludo game produced for students that
develop the strategies for avoiding plagiarism and academic misconduct. Along with this, Task 2
will also explain instructions for playing the game. Further, why academic integrity is important
at University will also be explained in an effective and efficient manner. Moreover, summary of
reflection of skills used to produce the game will also be explained.
MAIN BODY
TASK 1
Designing a game for students that develops strategies for avoiding plagiarism and academic
misconduct
Academic misconduct is defined as unfair means of attempting the academics and working on it
within higher education. The game which is being taken for the avoidance of plagiarism and
academic misconduct is Ludo (Awasthi, 2019). Ludo is the strategy board game for two to four
players in which the players race their dice from start to finish according to the rolls which
comes in the single die when thrown. Like other games, Ludo is also an interesting game which
is being played with friends and colleagues.
In this game, there are four players who throw their dice when rolled once. The roller
begins the game. The chance of rolling the die passes from person to person in the clockwise
direction (Bhatia and et.al., 2021). To start the game, the payer must get a six or one on the dice.
Unless they get a six one, they are allowed to play and get a chance to start the game. If they do
not get six or one then they have to wait for their chance to come in the next round. Apart from
this, there are some rules to the game.
Rules and Conditions for playing ludo are — There are certain rules in playing ludo which are
described as -
 When the player rolls the dice and gets out by the other player in the game, then that
player is required to provide the details of what is academic integrity.
 On the next turn when any other player's chance is skipped while playing the game then
that player is required to explain what is meant by academic misconduct (Fickle, 2019).

 If the player gets out by any other player while rolling the dice, then that person is told to
define why academic integrity is important in the University.
 No player will get second chance after the dice is being rolled, and they do not achieve
six or one in the starting. But there is double chance to the player when they get six.
Some questions are asked to the players when they are out of the game. This depends upon the
colour of dice and then questions are framed. The questions are -
Red — What is academic misconduct?
Blue — What are the five main cause of academic misconduct? (Zinken and et.al., 2021).
Yellow — Why is academic integrity important?
Green — What do you mean by plagiarism?
TASK 2
Poster attached.
CONCLUSION
Thus, it is concluded from the above report that Task 1 explained Ludo game was being
produced for students that developed the strategies for avoiding plagiarism and academic
misconduct. Along with this, Task 2 was also explained which included instructions for playing
the game. Further, why academic integrity is important at University was also explained in an
effective and efficient manner. Moreover, summary of reflection of skills used to produce the
game was also explained.

REFERENCES
Books and journals
Awasthi, S., 2019. Plagiarism and Academic Misconduct: A Systematic Review. DESIDOC
Journal of Library & Information Technology. 39(2).
Bhatia, A. and et.al., 2021, May. An Analysis of Ludo Board Game Play on Smartphones. In
Extended Abstracts of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing
Systems (pp. 1-6).
Biagioli, M. and et.al., 2019. Academic misconduct, misrepresentation and gaming: A
reassessment. Research Policy. 48(2). pp.401-413.
Fickle, T., 2019. Introduction Ludo-Orientalism and the Gamification of Race. In The Race Card
(pp. 1-28). New York University Press.
Zinken, J. and et.al., 2021. Rule talk: Instructing proper play with impersonal deontic statements.
Frontiers in Communication. 6.
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