BMP3003 Game Design: Developing a Game for Academic Integrity Skills

This assignment details the design of a game intended to promote academic integrity among university students. The game involves five students competing to write on a topic of their choice while avoiding plagiarism and grammatical errors. Their work is evaluated using plagiarism detection software and points are awarded based on quality, grammar, and adherence to academic integrity principles. Students exceeding a plagiarism threshold are eliminated, while the student demonstrating the highest level of academic integrity receives a reward. The assignment emphasizes the importance of academic integrity in higher education, highlighting its role in fostering independent thought, knowledge creation, and respect for others' work, referencing values such as honesty, fairness, and responsibility. References are provided to support the discussion on academic skills and integrity.

Instructions for playing the game
BMP3003 Further Academic Skills
The academic integrity is essential for the higher education for
students as well as staff by handling the independence of making
new ideas, knowledge and creativity along the respect and
ascertaining other's work. This is followed with a fair work and
consistent time for the universities. This is significant for
development of ideas and innovation. There are many types of
values serves in this like honesty, fairness, courage,
responsibilities respect and trust. They have to handle the
academic integrity which will improve upon their knowledge and
skills which are advantaging for them in developing the person.
This is necessary for a learning life of a student which helps in
preventing the misconduct and concentrates on learning.
This game serves a purpose for avoiding plagiarism in the
academic work so there is a need for 5 students to be seated in
a line in a way that they couldn't talk or see the other's work
and they are given a system.
They are given an interesting topic of their choice that is
given to them for write at-least 2000 words on it while
maintaining the decorum of the game room.
Then they should be given same time to do their writing part,
as the speed of typing and analysing matters as a skill in them.
They should be aware for the cheating or plagiarism and
grammatical mistakes before starting the game.
When the time is up they their work should be tested by a
plagiarism predicting software.
They should get points in the matter of quality, grammar,
plagiarism avoidance and many more academic integrity
tasks.
The students who bring more than 30% plagiarism then they
should be kicked out of the game without any option.
The student who had attempted with all academic integrity
will get a reward at the end.
An explanation of why academic
integrity at University is so important
Game Design Skills used to produce the game
• Presentation skills
• Writing skills
• Creativity skills
Name
• Aldosari, D., 2021. The Level of Academic
Leaders’ Mastery of the Intangibles
Management Skills and its Role in Achieving
the Competitive Advantage of Saudi
Universities: A Field Study. International
Journal for Research in Education, 45(1),
pp.235-265.
• Ashton-Hay, S.A. and Doncaster, N., 2021.
Student success and retention: What’s academic
skills got to do with it?. Journal of Academic
Language and Learning, 15(1), pp.102-116.
• Byrne, C., 2022. What determines perceived
graduate employability? Exploring the effects
of personal characteristics, academic
achievements and graduate skills in a survey
experiment. Studies in higher education, 47(1),
pp.159-176.
References
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