BMP3003 Academic Skills: Game Design for Academic Integrity Project

This project outlines the design of a game, "Plagric," aimed at enhancing students' understanding and application of academic integrity. The game uses a question-and-answer format with varying levels focused on plagiarism-related topics, leveraging AI for accurate scoring and offering both online and offline playability. It incorporates elements of skill development, including technical, presentation, research, writing, and organizational skills. The game design emphasizes engaging students through interactive gameplay, color customization, and competitive scoring to promote honest academic conduct and reduce plagiarism. The document also references academic papers related to skills development and academic integrity.

Instructions for playing the game
BMP3003 Further Academic Skills
The concept of academic integrity is one of the most important part of student's
academic year. Academic integrity helps in developing academic skills by
covering perspectives impacting students performance. It helps in making best
chances of success to be developed in relation to academic year, after analysing
assessment with honest attitude. Further, academic integrity makes foundation
of academic scholarship by guiding students in right directions. It is an
emerging initiative that has been used within colleges and schools in order to
enhance their academic quality. Also, through such integrity students are able to
present their project in more effective way. This provides solutions to solve
academic misconduct like breach of taking place in relation to plagiarism.
Academic integrity helps in making fairness developed in students which makes
quality of work improved presented by them. This helps in developing
techniques in order to deal with the problem of fraud triangle. As per the issue
intervention upon minimizing all kinds of academic disability that can have
adverse effect upon student's education. Further academic integrity helps in
making various kinds of stress removed from student's academic life. It also
helps students to remove plagiarism and work with more efficiency in order to
stop plagiarism existence within the work of students. Academic integrity is
one of the most important concept which helps in completing graduation with
right path. The game “Plagric” has been design for helping students work over
more efficiency which makes smoothness developed within academic conducts.
An explanation of why academic integrity at University is so
important
Game Design
Skills used to produce the game
Anderson, A. and Valero, L., 2020. Supporting Academic
Vocabulary and Social-Emotional Skills of Students With
Learning Disabilities Through an Arts-Integrated Social
Studies Approach. TEACHING Exceptional Children, 53(2),
pp.150-162.
Bailey, J. and Bulotsky-Shearer, R.J., 2021. Learning
Behaviors Mediate Associations between Parent-reported Peer
Play Skills and Literacy and Mathematics Skills for Low-
income Preschool Children. Early Education and
Development, pp.1-18.
Cotronei-Baird, V.S., 2020. Academic hindrances in the
integration of employability skills development in teaching and
assessment practice. Higher Education, 79(2), pp.203-223.
Dreisbach, E., 2020. Apps show teaching potential for math,
early academic skills. Infectious Diseases in Children, 33(1),
pp.20-20.
References
There are different set of skills which has been developed while
forming the game. While developing the game, technical skills is
enhanced as in this game AI has been used in order to make it
more interesting in nature. Further game makes development
possible in relation to presentation skills which helps in making
work look more presentable in nature. Research skills has been
improved as innovative ideas that made it interesting in nature.
Writing skills is improved as formation of questionnaire was to be
done. Organizing skills is improved as the game is formed in
discipline and organized manner. Further, the game has taught
about innovative skills that is developed by showing creativity
within the game. This is done by introducing new interphase
which makes students develop better understanding about the
concept of plagiarism.
Rules for playing the game
There are various strategies that can be used upon
developing design of game. This makes game more effective by
enhancing the purpose of game. Also certain instructions are required to
be followed that has been given as follows:
Students requires to face different levels during the game. In this interest
of player maintained over game and themes changes according to
requirement of level. Students can change colour of game as per there
convenience.
There are different and packages within the game which makes it
interesting. Design of game provides students more opportunities to
improvise with their academic skills.
Five players can play game at a time and two chances is given to each
player. Format of game is in the question and answer form. In this,
questions are presented and students requires to answer them.
Students have access to the game and they can generate their login ID’s
by using personal emails. This can be used by all students above 13 years
of age.
Students is required to listen to questioner presented by professor and
has to answer it. Students giving correct answer gets two points for each
answer. In order to provide more accuracy within the game artificial
intelligence is used to mark out final results.
In this game there are different levels within which different questions
asked based upon plagiarism. These levels are based upon questions and
answers.
These pins will be converted into new words which helps in
understanding about root cause of plagiarism. In this game, questions
having one-word answer which makes game more attractive.
Player has to choose the words which are floating on screen, after that as
per the selection of word, questions will come on screen and player has
to answer that question.
All the points scored at all level is calculated and then only rewards is
provided to the winner. This makes game to be more competitive in
nature which makes best working capability inherit within students.
The game can be played online also by using an app that has been
introduced by college. Further it can be played offline within the class
this provides the game uniqueness which makes it more effective in
nature from student's perspective.