BMP3003 Game Design: Understanding Plagiarism and Academic Integrity

This assignment details a game designed to educate students on academic integrity and plagiarism. The game involves two stages: a general knowledge and mental ability quiz followed by an image recognition round where participants write articles on identified figures. The game emphasizes research, writing, time management, and critical thinking skills, with the winning team being the one with the least amount of plagiarism in their submitted work. The importance of academic integrity is highlighted, focusing on how it builds reliability, trustworthiness, confidence, leadership qualities, and a positive reputation. The assignment also includes a list of references related to academic integrity.

Instructions for playing the game
Check the Plag
BMP3003 Further Academic Skills
• Make a reliable person: the development of academic integrity in an
individual make him more trustworthy and reliable. People start following
him and start relying on their decision. They also start taking suggest
suggestion from them related to his/her career. An individual with academic
integrity always stick to their values.
• Make a good person: this not only make an individual a good person but also
improves the potential or ability for doing something. Development of
academic integrity make them a calm and trustworthy person. These
individual don't get easily controlled and influence by others.
• Make a confident person:- development of academic integrity in an
individual make them a confident and positive person. This not only boost up
the confidence but also provide overall security to them (Guraya, 2018). An
individual without academic integrity means that, he is not a trustworthy or
honest person and this at the end reduces the self confidence.
• Make a leader:- development of academic integrity makes an individual more
responsible person in his life. A person with right moral and values help them
in attaining a successful person in his life. These individual also become an
inspirational icon for others.
• Develops good fame: an individual with academic integrity have high values
and morals. This not only reflects what kind of person they are but also
reflects their reputation in the eyes of other people. An individual without
integrity means that no one can trust their decision and this ultimately ruin
their reputation and fame (Solmon, 2018).
This game is going to be played with 5 groups in which 2 people in the each
group, so that each and every student can participate and play the game.
This game is divide into two stages and different topics and images has been
given to each team so that they cannot cheat and play the game with utmost
honesty.
Before starting the game, first of all each team has to create their account on
the university portal and then complete the procedure of sign up by assign a
name which was allotted to them.
The game is going to play on online software.
In the first stage, five different question related to GK, mental ability and
many more has been provided to each team with four options. They have to
select the correct answer from the given option and then click to submit
(Özcan, Yeniçeri and Çekiç, 2019) .
The group of individual who give more correct answer with less time,
promoted to the next stage. Time has been noted on the basis of click on
submit button.
The above game is related to plagiarism and academic misconduct. The group
who got the least plag is chosen as the winner of this game.
Winner of the game has been awarded with different gifts and vouchers.
In the second stage, different images of famous personality have been shown
on their screen. Each group of individual have to correctly identify the image
first. Then they have to write an article on the recognized image. Word limit
for this round should be 1000 and time limit allotted to each team will be 30
minutes.
An explanation of why academic
integrity at University is so important
Game Design Skills used to produce the game
• Writing skills
• Research skills
• Time management skills
• Critical thinking skill
• Managing skill
Name
• Ayoub, M.I. and Aladwan, K., 2021. The relationship
between academic integrity of online university
students and its effects on academic performance and
learning quality. Journal of Ethics in Entrepreneurship
and Technology.
• Brown, T and Et .al., 2020. Predictors of academic
integrity in undergraduate and graduate-entry masters
occupational therapy students. Hong Kong Journal of
Occupational Therapy, p.1569186120968035.
• Guraya, S.Y., 2018. Comparing recommended sanctions
for lapses of academic integrity as measured by Dundee
Polyprofessionalism Inventory I: Academic integrity
from a Saudi and a UK medical school. Journal of the
Chinese Medical Association. 81(9). pp.787-795.
References