BMP3003 Further Academic Skills: Game Design to Avoid Plagiarism

This assignment details the design of a game aimed at educating students about plagiarism and academic misconduct, fulfilling the requirements for module BMP3003 Further Academic Skills. The game involves dividing students into teams to answer questions related to academic integrity, emphasizing the importance of honesty, proper referencing, and ethical behavior in academic work. The report includes instructions for playing the game, an explanation of why academic integrity is crucial in university, a reflection on the skills used in developing the game (creativity, artistic vision, time management, and balancing logic with fun), and a list of references. The game incorporates a bonus question to determine the winning team, ensuring engagement and knowledge retention. The conclusion underscores the significance of academic institutions fostering honesty and integrity among students to prepare them for future success.

Game Design Why academic integrity is important at university
It refers to the term which support the educational values. Educational values refers to the avoidance
of cheating, plagiarism, contract cheating etc It strongly support the maintenance of academic
standards and believes in maintaining those standards by avoiding unethical behaviour.
The academic integrity is important for students as it will develop honesty and trustworthiness in the
behaviour and in the personality of the students . It is important for the students to develop these skills
so that it can develop the personal morals and values of student that defines their credibility and
character.
It is important for the university or the academy to provide justice too the students who are working
for hours in order to complete their assignments and projects with utmost dedication and without
using someone else's work It will provide benefit to the honest students and will ensure that no
students are completing their projects by cheating or by any unethical activity which is not acceptable
by the university or against the4 norms of the university.
Required skills
Creativity: The utmost important skill that is required by an individual is the skill of
creativity. A person in order to develop a skill requires to make sure that they have ideas which are
related to the game so that they can combined different ideas and make a game which is a combination
of fun and knowledge.
Artistic vision: In order to develop something new it is important for the company to make
sure that they have skills of observing situations and developing ideas from that situation in order to
build a game. In order to have an artistic vision it is important for the designer to make sure that they
can have open mindset and a knowledge about the situation.
Time management skills: These are the skills that are required in every field of work
whether it is game designing or any other field. It is important for an individual to manage their time
correctly in order to avoid any late penalty . It is not a good impression if someone submit their work
after deadline. It is important for the students to submit their work in time and in order to do so they
must have to develop time management skills.
Balance between logic and fun: It is important for the designer to have a balance of fun as
well as logic in order to make the game interesting and knowledgeable for the students. The students
in this game is playing the game in order to have a knowledge about plagiarism and academic
misconduct and it is important for the game to make sure that it provides basic knowledge about the
same.
Introduction
Plagiarism refers to using someone else research or thought, ideas into one's own
original work with or without taking permission and also without proper credits.
Its an offence and is absolutely against academic integrity. Plagiarism can be
intentional or unintentional and only intentional plagiarism is considered to an
offence. It refers to any type of misconduct or cheating that is directly related to
university or academic exercises. This act definitely includes some mandatory
regulations that the educational institution takes against the students that has done
anything unethical regarding the projects that they submitted. Academic
misconduct is an offence but the students will always get a chance to describe
their part of explanation and situations as that no student can feel injustices and
also as their career depends on the same.
Quiz
A) the words or work of an author is protected by intellectual property
1) unless the work appears on the internet
2) Still be cited in accordance with the fair use restrictions.
B) if two students are working together on the project and the match of the
projects is up to 35% then
1)they will not be guilty since the plagiarism is derived in the common ideas
2)regardless of the intention the students will be penalised.
C) students who has accused for plagiarism has no defence and will surely be
penalized
1) true, they will not have any defence
2) false, every student has the right to explain the situation.
D) plagiarism will be defined as
1) not acknowledging the source.
2) paraphrasing someone else's ideas with attribution to the author'
Instructions for playing the game
The class room is needed to be divided into two groups. The groups will be divided on the
basis of heads and tails which means that members in the room will come into pair and will
then toss a coin. Their will be a heads team and a tails team. The head team will be asked
two questions and tails team will be asked two questions of 20 points each. Then their will
be a bonus question of 50 marks which will decide the winning team. It is important for
both the teams to make sure that they do not miss the bonus question as it can provide
maximum amount of points to the team. The questions will be asked randomly from the
given below set of questions:
.
bonus question
E) since the ancient theories and books such as Bible and Homer's Iliad does not require
any referencing since these are not protected under intellectual copywrites
1) true
2) false.
ANSWERS
A) 2
B) 2
C) 2
D) 1
E) 2
Instructions for playing the game
Conclusion
From the above report it is concluded that plagiarism is a misconduct and must not be
followed or acceptable by any university. It is important for the universities to develop
skills in their students and also inculcate honesty in the behaviour of the students so that
their character can become trustworthy or credible. The honesty developed by the
academic institutions of the student will help them in their future prospects as well.
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