BMP3003 Project: Game Design to Promote Academic Integrity in Studies

This project outlines the development of a game designed to educate students about academic integrity and plagiarism prevention. The game, intended for use between students and teachers, incorporates features such as content writing activities and tools like 'Red Alert' for plagiarism detection and 'Grammatical Magic' for error correction. The project emphasizes the importance of academic integrity in higher education for fostering creativity, knowledge development, and maintaining the quality of teaching and learning. It also details the skills required for game production, including presentation, writing, creativity, and time management, and references various sources on plagiarism and academic misconduct.

Instructions for playing the game
BMP3003 Further Academic Skills
The game will be played between the student and teacher as the problem
of plagiarism arises when content is written which creates penalties or
termination from university for the students. To start the game firstly,
student is required to download the game in their respective computers of
mobile phones. After download, game will be opened with several tools
and features and their will be shown option activity.
Secondly, the team will be formed of 3-4 students where teacher will
provide the small activity of content writing and the content would be
written by them in word file of approx. 100 to 500 words for detecting
PLAG.
The game provides the feature of fun and writing and there is tool by the
name of ‘Red Alert’ which helps in detecting plagiarism in content and
words are highlighted with red colour or different colour. It also contains
other tool of ‘Grammatical Magic’ which is used for knowing
grammatical error in content. This tool in the game improves writing skill
of students which benefits in future also.
In the last, the winner team will be declared who will have the minimum
plagiarism detection in their content writing and will be appreciated by
the teacher.
An explanation of why academic
integrity at University is so important
Game Design Skills used to produce the game
While producing game several skills were needed which
helped in developing an effective game for the students so
that plagiarism and academic misconduct can be avoided.
The use of skill benefit me in making work easier. The skills
used in producing the game are as follows-
• Presentation skills
• Writing skills
• Creativity skills
• Time management skills
Gaming Against Plagiarism
References
In the higher education the academic integrity is important
for the students and staff as this allows freedom for
developing novel ideas, knowledge and creative work.
The person creativity increases by enhancing and
developing knowledge and skills through academic
integrity. It is important for learning of new things and
new work is produced instead of taking other work as
own. The Academic integrity maintains the quality of
teaching and learning by allowing students to obey the
rules and regulations.
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Computing Education (TOCE), 20(1), pp.1-28.
• Artyukhov, A., 2019. Promoting Academic Integrity:
Challenges for Ukrainian Universities. In Prevention and
Detection of Academic Misconduct in Higher
Education (pp. 204-235). IGI Global.
• Domingues, I., 2021. A holistic approach to higher
education plagiarism: agency and analysis levels. Higher
Education Research & Development, pp.1-16.
• Gregory, J.L., 2021. Plagiarism as a Social Contract, a
New Way to Approach Plagiarism. Journal of Academic
Ethics, pp.1-18.
• Reyneke, Y., Shuttleworth, C.C. and Visagie, R.G., 2021.
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