BMP3003 Report: Designing a Game to Avoid Academic Misconduct

This report discusses the design of a game aimed at developing strategies for students to avoid academic misconduct and plagiarism. The game involves two teams answering questions on academic misconduct, with points awarded for correct answers. The report emphasizes the importance of academic integrity at the university level, highlighting its role in teaching, learning, and research. Skills such as problem-solving, creativity, research, team management, and attention to detail were crucial in producing the game. The report concludes that academic misconduct is a serious issue affecting the quality of work and suggests that the game can raise awareness and promote ethical academic practices. The report also includes sample questions and answers for the game.

Instructions for playing the game
BMP3003 Further Academic Skills
An explanation of why academic
integrity at University is so important
Game Design Name
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References
• Academic integrity at university is important because it is
basically fundamental to teaching, learn and research at
University.
• It is necessary because it offers peace of mind that work has been
done into correct manner and doing right things in consistent
manner.
• Academic integrity basically includes responsibilities and
strategies which are ongoing fostering across university
community.
• It is also important because it allows staff members and students a
kind of freedom for purpose of building new ideas, knowledge
and creative works while acknowledging and respecting work of
others.
• At university academic misconduct is necessary it will ensure the
records of outcomes and investigation that are kept confidential
and secure as well according to records management policy and
privacy policy.
• Academic misconduct is also important that the university will
ensure a continuous cycle of quality improvement for monitoring
occurrence and nature of instances of academic misconduct and
take action to address underlying causes. It is also necessary in
the context of university where it will take steps to ensure that
academic integrity is properly maintained in arrangements with
any collaborative partner.
INTRODUCTION
Academic misconduct refers to any kind of cheating which occurs in relation to a formal academic exercise. The
university takes all reported incidences of academic misconduct seriously and also seeks to ensure that they are
dealt in appropriate and efficient manner. Academic misconduct is very unethical at university level because it is
kind of unfair practice or activity which resulted into negative kind of work due to which it impact the quality of
work as well. The report will cover discussion about a game for students that develop strategies for avoiding
academic misconduct and plagiarism. In addition to this the report will cover analysis about explanation related
to game.
Academic misconduct is important because it ensure the student that they are achieving course meeting and
objectives, state standards. Students only earn credit for material in which they have mastered and learned. In
terms of developing strategies for avoiding plagiarism and academic misconduct, a game has been designed for
this purpose.
Instructions for the game
•The game is designed in such a manner where there are two teams and in each team there are five players.
• In this game, there are different colored cards in which certain questions are there which are related to
academic misconduct.
•A student from the team pick a card and that team member has to answer for this question and if student give
wrong answer then their team will get one point as in the negative frame.
•If student give correct answer for the question then their team will get five points for each correct answer.
•The team which will give maximum correct answer then that team will win the game and another team lost their
game.
Academic Jenga

Skills used to produce the game
While I was producing the game there were certain skills which were required at the the time of producing a
game.
• These skills can be problem-solving, creativity, research, team management, awareness and attention and
hand-eye coordination skills.
• While I was designing the game I have to research about the questions related to academic misconduct so that
I can properly frame questions into appropriate manner.
• Creativity skill is necessary while I was producing the game because designing of questions requires
creativity and it should be frame out into appropriate manner.
• When I was producing the game I have to think about team members coordination and how many players
should I have to decide within a team. So it was required that management of team can only lead towards
successful completion of game.
• I have to be aware about proper scoring points while producing the game so that I can assign proper scores
while assigning scores at the time game conduct. For this purpose I needed attention towards the game so that
game should be not designed into inappropriate manner.
• While I was producing the game I have realized that there should be proper coordination in between eyes and
hands so that different colored does not get mix in appropriate manner. So its important to have this hand-eye
coordination skills while I was designing the game.
Question Jenga with answers
Question- 1) According to
your opinion is it legal to buy
an assignment on online
basis and submit it into the
form of as your own
assignment?
A) Yes
B) No
C) Yes, if you inform the
teacher in advance
Answer-1) No
Question- 2) Whether is it
necessary to reference the
sources for the purpose of
assignment?
A) Yes
B) No
C) Only from books
Answer-2) Yes
Question- 3) Is it
necessary to know the
original sources when
paraphrasing
A) Yes
B) No
Answer-3) Yes
Question- 4) Is it
necessary to reference the
source of picture of
presentation that has been
found on website
A) Yes
B) No
Answer-4) Yes
CONCLUSION
The above stated report concludes that academic misconduct at university is a very
serious issue that should be resolved on immediate basis. It has been concluded that the quality of work
has been affected due to this kind of work and the results which has been achieved on a very low score
basis. It has been determined that certain strategies have been designed for purpose of avoiding
plagiarism and academic misconduct as well. For resolving this issue, a game has been designed for
purpose of creating awareness related academic misconduct. This game has been produced for purpose
of creating awareness that these activities leads towards laziness and not active part in academic
activities. So it is important that academic misconduct related activities should be banned on immediate
basis.

References
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