Academic Integrity & Skill Development: Game Design Project Report

This project outlines the design of a game aimed at developing students' understanding of academic integrity and preventing plagiarism and misconduct. The game involves teams answering questions related to academic misconduct scenarios, with points awarded for correct answers and a bonus round to determine the top scorer. The report emphasizes the importance of academic integrity at the university level, highlighting its role in fostering trust, honesty, and responsibility among students and faculty. It reflects on the skills used in producing the game, including creativity, time management, and research skills. The project concludes that academic integrity is essential for students' success and can be effectively promoted through engaging educational tools like games. Desklib provides access to similar solved assignments for students.

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Introduction
Academic skills is basically referred to the talent and habits that are helpful in benefiting
a person while pursuing learning, research, etc. The skills will comprise of several analysis,
communication, studying, social planning, technical skills and several more. The focus of the
skill development has been done through the development of a game.
TASK 1
Game Designing in order to develop strategies for avoiding the academic plagiarism and
misconduct.
The game will be designed in order to develop the understanding of academic plagiarism
in order to avoid academic plagiarism and misconduct. In order to fulfil the purpose, it is
essential outline the criteria for academic misconduct as well as plagiarism.
Academic misconduct is basically a concept that deals with using unfair means that are
against the guidelines of the university. It might comprise of cheating, plagiarism, access to
university materials before they are officially available for the students, etc.
Plagiarism comprises of the concept of using material facts as well as information
without proper references as well as in-texting the citations. The individual student is liable to be
punished if the student is found to be guilty under the several guidelines and the policies. In
order to avoid the incidents of the plagiarism, it is important for the students to avoid rephrasing
the work, copying the several passages that are available through several online and offline
sources as well as using the views and thoughts of the author without the acknowledgement in
the project reports.
TASK 2
Instructions of playing the Game
In order to develop a better understanding of the concept of academic integrity, it is
essential for the students of the university to put in several efforts through the game design
development. In order to play the game, the students will be divided among the two groups.
Further a basket will comprise of 10 balls of two colours namely black and red. Each team
member will be required to choose a ball and further a question will be asked. Each question will
comprise of 30 points. The maximum points will be 120 points out of 4 questions. Further, in
order to identify the top scorer, the team members will be asked a bonus question in form of a
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buzzer round. It will be essential for the team to at least accomplish a total of 90 points in order
to fulfil the submission criteria.
The questions that can be asked in the game have been discussed below.
Question 1 When a report project is submitted without submission, is that considered as an
academic misconduct?
 Agree Disagree
Question 2 When an individual performs a task with the help of several students without the
acknowledgement of the faculty of the project, is that considered as academic integrity?
 Agree Disagree
Question 3 When a tutor provides additional resource material to a student and when this is
further distributed to others, will that be considered as an academic misconduct?
 Agree Disagree
Question 4 When a student has been assigned same assignment from two different tutors and
further the student develops same findings and information for both the projects on a belief that
both were submitted by him. Is that considered as an act of misconduct and plagiarism?
 Agree Disagree
Importance of Academic Integrity at University
Academic Integrity is basically the concept wherein there are several expectations in context of
academic community act and these are performed by several teachers, researchers as well as
students. These are required to be performed along with trust, honesty, fairness, responsibility as
well as respect. The act where in the academic integrity breaches, is termed as academic
misconduct as well as academic dishonesty. It is essential for the students at the University to to
uphold the expectations in form of academic integrity. In order to maintain the academic
integrity, it is essential for the students to contact the teachers regarding the problems that are
being faced by them in order to deal with the problems through several solutions.
Academic integrity is important at the University level in order to the give best chance
for doing the assessment with the honest attitudes. Academic Integrity will facilitates avoidance
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of negative consequences such as failure in assignment or rustication from the university.
Another benefit of academic integrity is that the individual invests time and efforts in the studies
which further facilitate as a stepping stone for success in a specific field or career.
The University is required to be consistent and trustworthy in aspect of the standards. The
University is required to have confidence. The University focuses upon being consistent in
aspect of the courses and assessments and hence academic integrity is of huge significance.
This further helps in building confidence among the graduates and this is the reason the
University considers the issue of academic misconduct in a serious manner.
The academic integrity allows a person make influence of the several ideas that further
helps in marking the influence as well. The academic integrity helps in building the knowledge
within the individual. The academic integrity is helpful in providing credit to the people whose
information is being used.
Reflection of skills used to produce the game
There are several skills that have helped in developing the game. The skills have been
discussed below.
 Creativity- The engagement of academic integrity has helped in performing the several
tasks of providing project report in order to develop creativity skills. The approach has
helped in developing the content. From themselves and further structuring the report in
an appropriate manner.
 Time management skills- The preparation of several tasks in the report have helped me
in enhancing my time management skills. The completion of the complex tasks have
been segmented in small denominations in order to complete the tasks in the specified
time period. The skill has further helped me in making used of the time in the most
productive manner that tends to underpin the personal as well as the professional tasks.
 Research skills have been helpful for me in developing the understanding of the topic in
context of the several material facts as well as information that is available online. It
helps us in performing the several research activities and further helps in enhancing the
concentration level of an individual.
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CONCLUSION
It can be concluded that it is essential for the students to have academic integrity in order
to excel in the career. In order to attain the academic integrity it is essential to avoid the
plagiarism and several academic misconduct activities. Also, the academic integrity can be
developed through academic games as well.
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