BMP3003 - PlagBreak: Game Design Report on Academic Integrity Skills

This report details the design of "PlagBreak," a game intended to educate students about academic misconduct and plagiarism. The game divides students into groups to answer questions related to academic integrity, fostering creativity, technological skills, logical thinking, and design knowledge. The report emphasizes the importance of academic integrity in fostering honesty, creativity, and respect for others' work within educational institutions. It concludes that plagiarism is unethical and a criminal offense, highlighting the significance of proper research and information gathering for student development. The report also references existing research on game design in educational settings. Desklib provides students with access to this document and a wealth of other solved assignments and resources.

Instructions for playing the game
BMP3003 Further Academic
Skills
Firstly the students will be divided into three groups and each
group will have equal participants. In order to involve students in
to the game and to make it more interesting a captcha will be
provided below and each team will have to select one box under
which their will be a surprise question for each team related to
academic misconduct and plagiarism. The five boxes will have
three different colours and students will have to pick any one box
at a time. The colour of boxes include blue, green and red.
Game Design Skills used to produce the game
Creativity skills
Technological skills
Logical skills
Design skills and knowledge
Innovative skills
References
Ismail, R. and Ibrahim, R., 2018, July. Teachers' perception
on digital game: A preliminary investigation towards
educational game application for Islamic religious primary
schools. In 2018 International Conference on Information and
Communication Technology for the Muslim World (ICT4M)
(pp. 36-41). IEEE.
Boutefara, T. and Mahdaoui, L., 2020, December. Applying
game design approach to build web-based collaborative tool
with better social presence. In 2020 4th International
Symposium on Informatics and its Applications (ISIA) (pp. 1-
6). IEEE.
Conclusion
From the above report, it is concluded that plagiarism is a
criminal offence and is highly unethical. Using someone
else's handwork without providing proper credit is extremely
bad. In order to learn new things it is important for the
students to make sure that they are doing proper research and
are gathering information which can be beneficial for their
assigned tasks. It will help the students in becoming self
sufficient and will also make sure that they are learning new
things
Introduction
Plagiarism refers to the presentation of ideas, thoughts or work
of other person as one's own work. Intentional or unintentional
copy of other's work is considered to be as plagiarism. This
includes legal repercussions and the guilty may have to face
legal charges against them. It is important for the user to
provide proper credit to the original author or source through
which they have gathered the information. Academic
misconduct refers to any type of cheating that is done by the
student in a formal academic exercise which is against the
rules and norms of the institution is considered to be as
unethical or dishonesty. The universities and institutions take
this unethical behaviour seriously and will take appropriate
actions against those who are involved.
Importance of academic integrity
Academic integrity refers to the fundamental learning,
researching and teaching in any institution or at the university.
it is important for the institutions to develop academic integrity
in the students so that it can help them in becoming more
honest and can learn new things without using short cuts to
complete their work. It gives freedom to teachers as well as
students to build new ideas and to make sure that the students
are developing creative skills while respecting the work of
others.
Ensures credibility of students as well as universities
Creates a learning environment
Protect the interest of honest students
Name: PlagBreak