BMP3003 Foundation: Academic Integrity, Skills, and Game Reflection

This report delves into the critical aspects of academic integrity, emphasizing its significance in higher education and the potential implications of academic misconduct. It highlights the core values associated with academic integrity, including honesty, trust, fairness, respect, and responsibility. The report also reflects on the skills acquired during the creation of a game project, such as PowerPoint proficiency, writing skills, organizational abilities, design skills, and creativity. Furthermore, it addresses the challenges encountered during the game development process, particularly in designing an engaging structure and formulating relevant questions. The conclusion underscores the importance of education and the necessity for students to cultivate a strong understanding of academic integrity to foster trustworthiness and honesty in their academic pursuits. Desklib provides access to a variety of resources, including past papers and solved assignments, to support students in their academic journey.

Business Management with Foundation
BMP3003
Further Academic Skills
Academic Integrity
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
Education is one of the crucial element for the people as it is the area of
strength for the pupils in their professional as well as personal life. A education is
consist of basic skills which are spelling, writing as well as reading. The skills with
the support of that a student engage particular academic working like presentation,
learning, research as well as report writing which is known as the academic skills. In
addition to this, it also consist of various abilities as well as talent that are
management, planning, effectual communication and their technical capabilities
(Manocchio, and Willard, 2021). The following report will cover about the academic
integrity together with its implications as well as importance in the education. Apart
from this, it will also include the obligations that comes as the outcome of the
academic misconduct and moreover, it will cover about the essential reasons which
is there in regards to the making of the skills for the academic times.
Section 1
An Introduction including a description of Academic Integrity
Academic Integrity refers to the demonstration and commitment of the honest as well
as moral behavior in the academic setting (Klijn, Alaoui, and Vorsatz, 2021). It is
the basis that supports the exchange of the thoughts and needs the students to work
and trust among each other. It is the ethical plan of action or the moral code of
conduct of the academic. It assist in the enactment of the values of education like
minimizing the plagiarism, maintenance as well as cheating in the academic
standards like honesty in the research publishing and academic. In accordance to
obey the academic integrity, there are five values of it that generates optimistic
conservation in regards of the promotes and integrity assist in the guidance to learn.
 Honesty – It refers to the sincerity towards the work where the person who is
more genuine and honest, carries the set of their capabilities and show it in
their efforts in an fair way. The people should be genuine about their idea and
also how its outcomes is obtained (Khan, and et.al., 2021).
 Trust – It is very easy to make working relationships if there is trust in the
other people and in the society. It can be positioned in the system in which the

members are operating their work, on their policies as well as structure which
are fair and also there is equal treatment for everyone.
 Fairness – It works equally with the trust and all the people accepts that they
should be evaluated on the same standard as others and be treated fairly.
The appropriate work can be derived from the genuine system only.
 Respect – There need to be respect for the idea and the opinion of a person
and it can be done by listening to others and also being agreed to address all
the deadlines. The person should concentrate on providing its proper
feedback to the person who has given its opinions as well as ideas.
 Responsibility – It includes acknowledgment and accountability in their
regular working. It starts with itself and assist in effecting the all society
optimistically. All people should invest in their work with the integrity and also
motivates other to work with integrity (Gomes, and Goncharova, 2021)
(Kader, 2021).
A discussion of the importance of academic integrity in higher
education
The people who has the integrity are the people who are genuine as well as
trustworthy. It is essential for the pupils to have the personal beliefs and morals that can show
their character and credibility. In the college, managing as well as maintaining the academic
integrity shows the genuine academic achievements of the people. The students that possess
integrity are the hard workers and also gets their degree in fair as well as honest way by
working, studying and accomplishing their projects. It can be compromise at the time of
studying in the higher education when the pupils cheats and that also gives outcome of
violation of moral of the people. The need of the academic integrity in the colleges is
mentioned below:
 The academic integrity makes the environment that consist of respect, mutual
honesty, fairness and responsibility as these belief shows others to respect a person
and in their professional work. In such environment the student can learn more and it
can support in their evolution in the future.
 It supports in the trust among the pupils and the faculty as it also helps in makig the
optimistic learning atmosphere. The pupils can take their research and also learn with

the confidence as if there is honesty and trust in pupils and the atmosphere where they
operate or research in (Amigud, and Pell, 2021).
 It comes from honesty in learning as well in research, the honest as well as hard work
understanding of the person can assist the pupils to show their own project in the
authentic way and also gives the outcomes in declaring the work of other people in
accordance to make the optimistic learning atmosphere.
 Academic integrity can assist in the higher education in getting more reputation as the
students are obeying all the values as well as norms genuinely that will assist in
managing the respect of the company.
 It is very essential at the colleges as it shows the learning due to dishonest as well as
negative behavior and impacts the quality of the colleges. Colleges that have more
standards of the academic integrity can minimize the trust of the people in the
academic undertakings.
Discuss the implications of academic misconduct
Academic misconduct means to the thing that supports in the unfair practice
of the academics either for themselves or for the other people of the society. It is the
kind of misconduct which is there in regards to the formal academic working and risk
the academic integrity and the college that give education to their students. The list
of academic misconduct is not thorough and involves several kinds of academic
misconduct (Alessio, and Messinger, 2021). Few of them are mentioned below
briefly:
 Cheating – It means to the dishonesty, deceit or activity in the academic
projects or utilising any resource that is not appropriate or restricted in regards
of academic working in question. These might involve copying at the time of
conducting the exams from others or in the projects.
 Plagiarism – It is utilised for the intellectual material that is produced by
several other people and the use is without the proper source of it. It might
also involve paraphrasing of the copyrighted, literary or metaphor of other
people with out acceptance of the work of other people into their own
assignments or work with out their permission.

All of above are included in the academic misconduct and includes several other features that
are linked to this misconduct. It can harm the goodwill of the pupils or the college but also
impacts the knowledge as well as learning of the students and their future evolution. The
effect of the academic misconduct can be sometimes serious as well as can involves
banishment or the suspension of the student from the company. It also includes the infraction
of the academic integrity and the pupils are charged with the misconduct of the academic. It
is understood that the values, ethics and belief of the colleges make the optimistic learning
atmosphere for the learners and any kind of the violation might give and outcome in the risk
of goodwill of the college and also makes a negative effect on the students as well as
community (Abdullah, and Asar, 2021).
Section 2
Reflect on the steps you have taken, and difficulties encountered in
producing the game for Project 2
When the thought was finally made, I focused on to making the game that is convenient as
well as efficient. Moreover to this, I managed to figure out the perks of the academic
integrity in order to make people more encouraged in accordance to move forward to avoid
academic misconduct and follow academic integrity. The respective game which is designed
to assess the understanding and knowledge of the players in regards of the academic
misconduct. It consist of several rounds in regards of asking questions about the academic
misconduct including cheating, falsification and plagiarism. My purpose to make the game
was to spared consciousness in order to restrict academic misconduct and need of the
academic integrity.
At the I was making this game I have faced several issues as well as difficulties that
are mentioned below briefly:
 The main issue that I faced at the time of making the game was to make the design as
well as structure of the game. I needed to have the design that attracts the people and
show the whole idea in accordance to accomplish its goals.
 Another issue that I faced was linked to the making of the several different questions
as it needed to manage the questions that are at lower to average level in order to
make all the people can play the game happily and understand its aim.

Reflect on the skills you have learned this academic year and those
emphasized in producing your game
At the time when I was making the game, I have gained various of the skills and also
identified some skill which I already have. Moreover, I got this chance to instioll
several new skill in me as the time of making the game. Few of them are mentioned
below briefly :
 Power Point Knowledge – At the time of my earlier time in the college, I
used to make several presentation with the support of the power point.
Moreover, at the time of producing the game, it has helped me in gaining
more knowledge regarding the power point that assisted me in telling my
concept in more effectual way.
 Written Skills – At the time of making this game, I need to make several
questions and because of this my writing skill got more better. In addition to
this, I learned about the several techniques and tricks in order to write more
creative questions.
 Organization Skills – At the time of production of this game, I did now have
the sufficient understanding in order to organize my task as well as work. So, I
learn about how to organize the task in the given time period that assisted me
in carrying out my top abilities.
 Designing skills – In the beginning I did not have any understanding
regarding the designing of the game or any other thing but I managed to learn
this skill as it requires the designing of the game which is more attracting as
well as more informative.
 Creativity and imagination – When I was making the game and
implementing the concept I got this chance to evolute creativity skill that has
assisted me in making the game more attracting and widen the area in order
to produce the game more effectually.

Conclusion
From the above report is it concluded that education has an essential role in
the future evolution of the students. It is also necessary that the student should have
the required knowledge and understanding of the academic integrity ion order make
that person trustworthy as well as honest. The idea of the academic integrity is
essential as it supports in managing the reputation of the college and also supports
in making the optimistic learning atmosphere. Moreover to this, academic
misconduct risks the idea of the academic integrity which involves cheating as well
as plagiarism. The following report also includes the game which is made to restrict
the plag and enhance the need of the academic integrity among the students.
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