Game Design Project: Plagiarism Avoidance Bingo for Students

This project report details the design of a "Plagiarism Avoidance Bingo" game aimed at educating students about academic misconduct and promoting academic integrity. The game, designed with an attractive and colorful interface, features three stages addressing plagiarism, academic misconduct, and the importance of academic integrity. The game mechanics involve marking boxes based on student actions, with rewards and feedback provided. The report outlines the game's structure, instructions, and the significance of academic integrity, emphasizing honesty, trust, fairness, and responsibility. The student reflects on the skills developed, including critical thinking, coding, time management, and design, highlighting how the project enhanced their understanding of plagiarism, ethical behavior, and game design principles. The conclusion stresses the importance of academic integrity in fostering student growth and ethical conduct, advocating for its implementation in universities.

Academic misconduct is action to gain or attempt to gain
unethical and unfair academic advantage by the students of
university during assessments. Plagiarism is one of the highly
conducted academic misconduct that is the growing rapidly in
the students for submitting their assessments without doing
hard work. Plagiarism is an activity where students steals
someone else's ideas, work, data etc. without permission and
acknowledgement of that person. Therefore, it is important for
every university to have academic integrity among the
students to ensure the honesty and transparency in their work.
There is one more noticeable thing in college students is
addiction and craze of gaming. Therefore, the current report
utilizes the concept of game design to teach students the
strategies to avoid plagiarism and academic misconduct and to
feed them with the academic integrity. The game designed in
report is “Plagiarism Avoidance Bingo Game” which will
recognise the various activities regarding plagiarism,
academic misconduct and academic integrity performed by
student during performing the assessment.
Structure of Game
Features of game
 The game is attractive and colorful to attract the students.
 The Plagiarism Avoidance Bingo is a fun game for the
students along with the educational learning to enhance
the academic integrity in students.
 The game is beneficial in analyzing the activities of the
students regarding the plagiarism, academic misconduct
and academic integrity.
 The game provides the feedback to students which help
them to improve their work and also to develop academic
integrity in their behavior and assessments.
 The structure of game is simple yet attractive in look with
basic instructions to play.
 The game also helps students in getting extra rewards for
their assessments.
Instructions for playing the game
The game “Plagiarism Avoidance Bingo” consist of some
instructions that student must consider while playing the game.
Plagiarism can also be claimed as the criminal act if
the owner of the data possesses the copyright or intellectual
property right on the idea and information. Therefore, it has
become very necessary to adopt the academic integrity factors
in the functioning of a university to make the students learn
about the values and ethics. Academic integrity is the concept
that delivers the values such as honesty, transparency, trust,
respect, fairness etc. in the work of the student. Academic
integrity will help the universities in reducing the academic
misconduct among the students.
It is examined that gaming is capturing the minds and the life of
the students of the university speedily and effectively. Students
or not just playing the game for the fun but they are also
adopting their features into their daily lives. From the recent
research it has been evaluated that among the college students
playing games has become the most essential habit of the day.
Therefore, to make the students learn to avoid plagiarism
and academic misconduct and established academic integrity
into their life support of game is used by designing the game.
The game is developed for students to develop strategies for
avoiding plagiarism and academic misconduct is named as
“Plagiarism Avoidance Bingo” (PAB).
The game is in the form of Bingo. There are three stages of
game one to avoid plagiarism, second to avoid academic
misconduct and third one to describe importance of Academic
misconduct. The game has a chart with different strategies
regarding the three stages in multiple boxes. The player has to
mark the boxes in two colors green and red green stands for the
activity is performed by the student and red stands for the
activities not performed by the student during assessment. In
the end the rewards are given to student according to the things
they have marked red and green. And a feedback is also
provided to improve the student’s misconducts and practice of
plagiarism.
Game Design
INTRODUCTION
Game Design
Academic Misconduct is the serious topic which defines the
illegal actions performed by the students to gain the academic
advantage for oneself and thereby creating academic
disadvantage to other member. The academic misconduct
includes the various activities in the form of the behaviour of
a student’s such as cheating, Plagiarism, getting hold of the
access of someone else study materials,
helping the friend in unfair activities to gain academic
advantage, fabrications of academic documents, stealing of
examination papers, taking electronics devices during the
exams etc. Plagiarism is one of the academic misconduct
activities where the person copies or uses the ideas or the
words of another person without his acknowledgement or the
permission. Plagiarism is adopted by the students of the
university at very large scale.

 A player is required to complete all the three stages
of game to get access for login the SIP portal.
 The player is required to click on finish and save
button at the end of the game to save the feedback
and score of the individual which will be required to
login the portal.
 In the game student need to mark red cross on box
for the things that they have never performed and
green tick on box they have performed regarding
above mentioned topic. This will be done
simultaneously in all the three stages.
 All the boxes of the chart must be marked to move
to the next stage.
 If the player gets the whole vertical, diagonal or
horizontal line with same color marks and should
click at bingo on right top corner to collect extra
rewards for the assessment they are submitting on
portal.
 Students should not mark false data else they can be
disqualified for the regular two chances.
 To mark the boxes student are required to double
click on each box.
 To proceed further on next stage player is required
to click next button at bottom right corner and to
change their answers click on restart button at the
bottom left corner.
 The person must regularly update themselves with
the knowledge of avoiding plagiarism, academic
misconduct and implementing academic integrity in
order to effectively play this game and earn extra
rewards for their assessments.
Importance of academic integrity
Academic integrity is the vow and performance of truthful
and ethical behaviour in an academic environment. This is
most applicable at the university because it involves
providing credibility to others when using their ideas. In the
simplest terms, it needs to acknowledge the contributions of
others. The roof of academic integrity is standing on the 5
pillars:
 Honesty: The honest academic community
promotes the pursuit of truth and knowledge through
personal honesty in learning, teaching, research and
service in the university.
 Trust: Academic integrity promotes and relies on an
atmosphere of mutual trust. The ambience of trust
encourages the free exchange of ideas, which in turn
permits academic research to attain its full potential.
Respect: academic integrity helps the students to support
their fellow members with respect and values.
Fairness: The academic integrity establishes transparency
and clarity of thoughts,
standards and practices to maintain fair interaction among
students and the faculty members.
Responsibility: The academic integrity is built on the basis of
individual accountability, attached with the eagerness of
individuals and groups to lead by example.
Hence, the academic integrity is important to university to
establish the above mentioned factors in the operations of the
organisation. Academic integrity is crucial for the university
as it gives the chance to students by doing their assessments
with the full honesty and trust in their attitude and even in
their task. It is important for the university to look at the
academic misconduct performed by the students of the
organisation. Academic integrity helps in university in setting
up the foundation for the students with the professional
knowledge and the trust and fairness in their work. Academic
integrity is very important for the university, the students and
the staff and the other people's outside the University to gain
ethics and fairness in society.
University needs to set a trust, fair and ethical standards of
the courses and the assessment so that the society can have a
confidence in the university and in their students who are
taking degree from the particular University. Therefore,
Universities take very strict actions towards the issues of the
academic misconduct. Hence, it is very important for a
university to conduct the activities in operations of students
with at most fairness and responsibility so that at the end of
the year students are proud and with the highest standards to
achieve the future success.
Reflection
To produce the “Plagiarism Avoidance Game” I
have utilized various skills of mine and also developed new
skills while designing the game.
To plan the structure and format of this game I used my critical
thinking and creative skills so that game looks attractive and
interesting to the students. My coding skills are highly reflected in the
performance and different features of the game. The game has helped
me in developing my knowledge about plagiarism and academic
misconduct and also in learning the measures to avoid in my life. I
have also improved and enhanced my academic integrity values will
be producing this game. I have also learned the key factors required
while designing the game. While designing the game I have used my
note making skills to write down the content required at various
stages of game. I have learned the time management skills while
producing the game. I have utilized and improved my designing skills
while drawing the logo and presentation of the game to the viewers.
While producing the game I have learned so much about values,
honesty, trust, transparency and also implemented these factors in my
life to grow in future with integrity. During the designing of the game
I have reflected all my written communication skills and also
developed my R&D skills to analyse the mind-set of the students and
to develop the game with new technology and innovations. Hence,
the game designing has aid my existing skills of creativity and
academic knowledge and also helped me in developing new
professional and personal skills.
Conclusion
It is concluded from the above report that academic misconduct and
plagiarism are activities that hinder the growth of the students and
reduces the knowledge of particular subjects. Therefore, it is very
important to nourish the students in the university with the academic
integrity so that they can demonstrate honesty, morals and ethics in
their work and assessments. Hence, the report outlines that academic
integrity is important for the universities to respect and acknowledge
the work of others along with the self-determination to build creative
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