BMP3003: Game Design to Enhance Further Academic Skills at University

This assignment outlines the design of a game, developed to enhance further academic skills, specifically targeting academic integrity at the university level. The game, suitable for multiple teams with 3-6 players each, features various levels and rounds, including rapid fire, multiple choice, and one-word answer formats. The questions are related to academic misconduct. The game is designed for online platforms, allowing students to play anytime and anywhere with an internet connection. The main goal is to educate students about various subjects, instill a sense of competition, and emphasize the importance of honesty. Players are rewarded based on their performance, reinforcing the value of academic integrity, reliability, leadership, and confidence. The assignment references academic articles emphasizing the importance of academic integrity and its impact on student development and ethical conduct.

Instructions for playing the game
BMP3003 Further Academic Skills
Reliable person – It is analysed that a student that obeys the
methods of the academic integrity is more reliable. It gives
students the chance to work and make proper decision making.
Leadership – A person who functions with academic integrity
that is never focused in any type of academic misconduct. It is
important because it gives the opportunity to become the leader of
the group.
Confidence – The people that operates their work with respect
and honesty and have not done any type of error or misconduct so
they are way too encouraged and convinced about the task that is
being completed by them (Orr, 2018).
The game can be played with the multiple players of various teams.
In a single team it is required more than 3 players and maximum 6
player.
There are various levels in the game and the in every level there are
3 rounds each. Teams have to perform good in each round in order
to promote themselves in the next round.
There are types of rounds like rapid fire, multiple choice, one word
answer. The questions of the quiz are related to the several subjects
mainly of academic misconduct.
This game can be played on the online platform which enables
players to play the game anytime they want from any place in the
world having a proper internet connection. Moreover, the main
motive of the game is to help students gaining knowledge about the
various subjects and understand the spirit of competition as well as
honesty.
It is essential for the students to play effectively and win without
any type of cheating and misconduct.
It is crucial to know that players are rewarded according to their
position in the game.
An explanation of why academic
integrity at University is so important
Game Design Skills used to produce the game
• Academic Writing
• Designing Skill
• Academic Research
• Organised
• PowerPoint
• Creative
Name
• Orr, J., 2018. Developing a campus academic integrity
education seminar. Journal of Academic Ethics, 16(3),
pp.195-209.
• du Rocher, A.R., 2020. Active learning strategies and
academic self-efficacy relate to both attentional
control and attitudes towards plagiarism. Active
Learning in Higher Education, 21(3), pp.203-216.
• Stitzel, B., Hoover, G.A. and Clark, W., 2018. More
on plagiarism in the social sciences. Social Science
Quarterly, 99(3), pp.1075-1088.
• Boafo-Arthur, S. and Brown, K.E., 2017. International
Students and Academic Misconduct: Personal,
Cultural, and Situational Variables. In Handbook of
Research on Academic Misconduct in Higher
Education (pp. 286-305). IGI Global.
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