BMP3003 Game Design: Directing Plagiarism & Importance of Integrity

This assignment outlines the design of a game called "Directing Plagiarism," aimed at promoting academic integrity among university students. The game, designed for online play with a duration of 35 minutes and a maximum of five players, uses a question-and-answer format to award bonus points for correct responses related to academic integrity. The assignment details the game's instructions, emphasizing the importance of teamwork, unity, and language selection. It also underscores the significance of academic integrity in higher education, defining it as a cornerstone of learning, teaching, and research that fosters creativity, innovation, and accountability. The document references several academic sources that highlight the need for universities to address misconduct and promote genuine work among students. The game aims to develop problem-solving, research, writing, and creativity skills.

Instructions for playing the game
BMP3003 Further Academic Skills
Academic integrity could be defined as fundamental rules
regarding learning, teaching and research in an educational
institution like university, colleges, etc. that provides with higher
level programs such as bachelors degree or masters degree. It
renders the free environment for the students in order to learn
how to develop new ideas, skills, knowledge, innovation and
creativity in their work in order to satisfy the objective of
academic integrity. This will also helps the students to realize the
accountability which they posses in terms of completing their
projects without any discrepancies(Bretag, 2018).They must
learn to handle the complex tasks by making proper plan or
strategies. . In order to maintain the sanctity of academic
integrity, the universities must take care of any sort of
misconduct which is being done by the students. The regular
check by authorities of concerned institutions will help in
developing a positive attitude in the students to perform the tasks
by presenting genuine work. It will also provide a support to the
learners by making them an honest human being who carries the
assigned tasks diligently and responsively.
An explanation of why academic
integrity at University is so
important
Game Design Skills used to produce the game
Creativity skills
Research Skills
Writing skills
Problem-solving skills
Name
• El-Muwalla, M. and Badran, A., 2020. Turnitin:
Building Academic Integrity Against Plagiarism to
Underpin Innovation. Higher Education in the Arab
World, pp.261-268.
• Ransome, J. and Newton, P.M., 2018. Are we
educating educators about academic integrity? A
study of UK higher education textbooks. Assessment
& Evaluation in Higher Education, 43(1), pp.126-
137.
• Eaton, S.E., 2021. Plagiarism in higher education:
Tackling tough topics in academic integrity. ABC-
CLIO.
• Davis, M., 2021. Raising awareness of inclusive
practice in academic integrity. In European
Conference on Academic Integrity and Plagiarism
2021 (p. 89).
References
Add A Picture of the game here
Name of the game- Directing Plagiarism
Mode- Online
Duration- 35 minutes.
Winning Criteria- In the game of directing plagiarism, only 5 players are allowed to
participate. The candidates who are interested in playing this game have to answer some
of the questions to win the bonus points. Every candidate who wins the game will going
to earn bonus points.
Importance of Game design- In order to motivate the students to work in a group and
maintain unity among themselves which helps in making them learn about the importance
of team work, game designing could be considered as one of the best activity for the
individuals.
Instruction required to play the game
To start with the game, the candidates needs to enrol themselves by signing up in their
accounts which has been created on the game portal. Then after signing up, they will be
generated a username along with an id password. They can use it if they need to login
again. After that, there would be an option of choosing the preferable language from
which candidates are free to select any of the language according to them. Then they need
to click on the start button where the screen will flash some questions and the space in
order to write the answers. Now, the participants are require to write the answers into the
given free space.