Game Design Project: Strategies to Avoid Academic Misconduct

This project details the design of a cardboard and dice game aimed at educating university students on strategies to avoid plagiarism and academic misconduct. The game involves four players moving around a board, answering questions related to academic integrity based on dice rolls. Correct answers allow players to advance, while incorrect answers result in setbacks. The questions cover various aspects of plagiarism and misconduct, reinforcing learning through peer interaction and repetition. The game incorporates instructions, emphasizing fair play and knowledge acquisition. Furthermore, it underscores the importance of academic integrity, defining it as adherence to moral behavior and honesty in academic settings. The project also highlights the benefits of academic integrity, such as proper attribution and fostering a culture of trust and knowledge sharing within the university. The reflection section discusses the skills used in game development, including communication, critical thinking, and writing, and provides sample questions to be used within the game. The project concludes with a list of references to support the concepts discussed.

Further Academic Skills

Contents
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................3
Game designing for the student that develops strategies for avoiding plagiarism and academic
Misconduct..................................................................................................................................3
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................4
Instruction for playing game........................................................................................................4
Importance of academic integrity at the University Level..........................................................4
Reflection on skills......................................................................................................................5
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................7

TASK 1
Game designing for the student that develops strategies for avoiding plagiarism and academic
Misconduct.
Game design
New game will be a cardboard and dice game in which strategies will be developed for
the university level student to avoid the plagiarism and academic misconduct. It will be learning
game so student will understand about how to avoid plagiarism and academic misconduct.
How to play
There will be 4 students who a can participate in one times. The game will be on the cardboard
where 1 to 50 numbers will be written on the board, and they will get the dice on their hand.
One by one all four students will roll the single dice and according to their dice number they will
move. The game twist will be that one every number student have to give answer of the question
related to the avoiding plagiarism and academic misconduct (Alipichev, and Takanova, 2020).
Students have to give answer the question and if they will give the right answer and teachers will
be satisfied with their answer then they will stay on the same position and wait for another
chance.
Other students who failed to give answer will back to their previous number. The question will
be written on the one board according to the number.
if any student get then 6 on the dice then he or she will walk six time in right order. They will
walk next six number and wherever they will reach suppose they reach to the 24 then they have
to see the questions on the board and give answer to the question n umber 24 and if they give the
right answer then they will stay, otherwise they will reach to the same position where they were
before the dice roll.
The plus point for the student's will be that they will able to listen to the answer given by the
other so will member the answer and complete that level as well so it will provide them good
learning and about avoiding the plagiarism and academic misconduct.
A person who will give answer according to their numbers they get reach to the 100 will be the
winner of the game. This is how thy will learn thorough the game and game is the best way to
teach something to the students, and they will able to understand thorough the question that why
avoiding academic misconduct and Plagiarism is important in the academic writing (Keen,
Adams, and Simpson, 2021).

TASK 2
Instruction for playing game
Here are some instruction of the game that would be followed by the students so the
game will be fair and learning related to the plagiarism and academic misconduct can be learned
and better outcomes are produced.
 There will be four students who will participate within the game but every student can
take helps of the other students, so they can discuss the questions and give answer
together.
 Every one get the chance one by one, and they all have to roll the dice properly and
fairly.
 On the cardboard there will be 50 numbers in systemic order and a student who will reach
to the 50 number will win the game (Ribner, Willoughby, Blair, 2020).
 Every question will contain a question and students have to give their answer understand
the 30 seconds and teacher will decide if they give answer right or wrong.
 If any student give wring answer of the question they will get back to the same position
where they were before, and they have to wait for their chance again.
 If any student get the same number the other student get before, then they will be asked
same questions but they will give answer in their own words or understanding.
 If student give repeated answer then they will be disqualified, and they will not able to
participate in the game.
 Questions will be written on the board and communicate by the teacher and answer
should be loud as well.
 All the question will be related to the plagiarism and academic misconduct so student
can learn how to avoid plagiarism and what is academic misconduct.
 Winner will get some prices so their confidence is boosted and it will be related to the
students so winner can use it and take benefits.
Importance of academic integrity at the University Level
Academic integrity is the commitment and a demonstration of moral behaviour and
honesty in an academic setting that helps them to understand that how to write assessment in
academic way and how they can follow the rules to avoid the incessant and rules within the
academic writing (Muratori, and et.al., 2019). This is mostly refers to the university level as it

relates to providing credit the anthers if they are using any other's idea in their assignment. In the
simplest way, it refers to require acknowledge the contribution of the people and their
information they use within the writing assignment.
Academic integrity is the fundamental of the learnings, researcher and teaching at the
university level for the students. It helps to allow students and the teacher staff to come up with
the new ideas and knowledgeable and share their ideas with the other respecting and
acknowledging the work of the others. It helps to give the students best chances to be success at
their university level by doing their task within the assessment with the proper behaviour and
honest attitude and follow the legal rules of the academic writing. The ways students and staff
member at the University level work affects how others view within the university. It is also
necessary for the universities to be trustworthy and consistent in their standards of the courses
and assessments student get for their subjects so that students can have a confidence in the
people who graduate with their degrees, and they can follow their career and become something
in their life by learning from them (Pakarinen, and et.al., 2017).
There are some benefits from the academic integrity like it let the students make their
work see where the influences for their idea have to come from and it also provides students a
proper and accurate path that can be followed by them that how the knowledge can be build.
Credits are most important part within the academic if students are taking the information from
the internet articles because this kind of articles are written by the authors. It makes necessary for
the students to give proper credited to the people who inspired them for the idea and give the
student an idea about their work. Their name should be mentioned which is the part of academic
integrity and must be followed by the students.
Reflection on skills
To develop new game I have used various skills. Here are skills that helps me to develop
a game.
Communication
Communication skills was important for me because I take help of the people about the
idea and ask them about how can I make this game more interesting and ideas from my friends
help to make the new game successfully and whole game is related to avoiding the plagiarism
and academic misconduct.
Critical thinking

Critical thinking also help me to develop the new game because I think differently from
other and note down the different ideas that I can use in game development. This skill helped me
a lot in making the game interesting (Vanegas, 2019).
Writing skills
' The writing skills was helpful for me to develop game because all the idea that I get in
my mind, I write in short form in the notebook, so I can remember that what I have things I will
add within the new game and I can remember the idea for the long time. This is how it helped me
to develop new idea about the game (Ye, 2019).
Types of Question
 What is plagiarism and academic misconduct
 Disadvantage of the plagiarism and academic misconduct for the students
 Strategies to avoid the plagiarism and academic misconduct and write a systematic
assignment ?
 Which act of misconduct is the situation of any ,material which is identical or
correspondent to the material which has already been given by the student's approval ?
 Kind of warnings students get when they get the plagiarism in their assignments or
teachers found any academic misconduct.
 In the case of the minor offences, in the section on the students n misconducting the
assessment, how long to be held a program hearing ?
 What happened when students avoid the interview ? meeting will take place in the
absence of the students or not.
 How many days the student have to appeal for the academic misconduct charge on them?
 Do you think playing game can helps students to avoid the plagiarism or the academic
misconduct and how it which provide them learning to avoid plagiarism and academic
misconduct.

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