BMP3003 Game Design: Promoting Academic Integrity Through Gaming

This assignment outlines the creation of a game designed to educate students about academic integrity and the importance of avoiding plagiarism. The game, intended for use in a team-based setting, involves questions related to plagiarism and academic misconduct, with points awarded for correct answers and deducted for incorrect ones. The design emphasizes communication, problem-solving, and information technology skills. It aims to foster a responsible and transparent learning environment, encouraging students to respect and acknowledge others' work, thereby reducing instances of academic misconduct. The assignment also references existing literature on game-based learning interventions for academic ethics.

Instructions for playing the game
BMP3003 Further Academic Skills
 Allows students to built new ideas and knowledge as
well as respect and acknowledge others work
 It helps in reducing chances of occurrence of
academic misconduct
 It make students responsible so that they can
complete their work and learn in fair and transparent
manner.
 It help students to act in integrated manner and
create an environment which is fruitful for others and
can help students to succeed.
Plagiarism quiz is a game for students that will
help them in understanding importance of
plagiarism and academic misconduct as well as
will further help them in developing strategies
for doing so. There will be four teams
participating in this team
This game will be played in team of 4 students. Each team
will be asked to register themselves for the game and them
login with their user id and password
Each of the team will be asked questions one by one. Correct
answer will provide them with 5 points partially correct
answer will reward them with 1 point and wrong answer will
deduct 1 point from tota
Likewise, all the team members will be asked 10 questions
each and at the end of the game team with maximum
number of points will win the game
An explanation of why academic
integrity at University is so important
Game Design Skills used to produce the game
 Presentation skills were used to produce
game for explaining instructions of game
 Information technology skills were used to
conduct game online
 Communication skills were required for
communicating rules of game
• Problem solving skills were required if issue
among two teams occur.
Name
Kier, C.A., 2019. Plagiarism intervention using a
game-based tutorial in an online distance education
course. Journal of Academic Ethics, 17(4), pp.429-
439.
Todorov, P., 2019. A game of dice: Machine learning
and the question concerning art. arXiv preprint
arXiv:1904.01957.
References