Academic Integrity Game: Plag Pro and Strategies to Avoid Plagiarism

This project outlines the design of "Plag Pro," a game created to engage students in developing strategies for avoiding plagiarism and promoting academic integrity. The project details the game's description, including its freemium model and instructions for playing, emphasizing the importance of originality and ethical conduct in academic work. It also reflects on the skills acquired during the game's development, such as communication, innovation, and teamwork, highlighting how these skills contribute to personal and professional growth. The project concludes by underscoring the significance of academic integrity at the university level, preparing students for the ethical demands of their future professional lives. Desklib provides a platform to explore this project and access a wealth of study resources, including past papers and solved assignments.

FURTHER ACADEMIC SKILLS
INTRODUCTION
It is essential for every individual to
focus on their academic skills because it
will help them to analyse, learn and
understand new aspects of a topic. There
are many skills which an individual can
use to develop their personal and
professional life such as Communication
skill, presentation skill and many others.
The following file covers designing of a
game that develop strategies for avoiding
plagiarism, instructions for playing the
game, importance of academic integrity
at University and summary of reflection
on skills used to produce the game.
Develop strategies for avoiding
plagiarism
Academic misconduct are those activities
which are done by students to achieve
their goal without much efforts and it is
considered as illegal practice.
Name of game- Plag Pro
Description of game- This game is
designed to generate interest for students
to create their own projects and
assignments without copying with full
interest and enjoyment.
Players in game- Minimum 1 players is
required to play this game
Instructions for playing the game
• Fill your personal details before
playing the game. This will help you
to provide that level of content of your
project which is matched to your age
and according to your class.
• You are not allowed to copy paste the
content in this game.
• You are not allowed to select two or
more images in this game when they
appear.
• It is a freemium game which can be
played free of cost for its basic version
but it will charge some amount of
money for using its updated version.
Importance of academic integrity at
University
• Academic integrity is honest and trust
worthy behavior of an individual
which help them to learn good habits
and gain a good reputation.
• It is very important to understand the
academic integrity at University level
because after University, students are
required to start their professional life
where they have to perform well for
their betterment.
• Secondly, in professional life student's
well-being behavior and good habits
will help them to gain their personal as
well as professional life goals.
• The basic concept of teachers at
University is make their students
understand that doing own work
without copying or cheating is well
effective and helpful to develop some
personal skills whether the work is
challenging or tough.
• This concept is same in professional
life where they have to work with a
team and communicate and coordinate
well for achieving their goals.
Summary of reflection
While designing the following game I gave leaned
few skills which are mentioned below-
Communication skill- While
designing this game I need to develop a team and
work with them because I need different skilled
students complete designing this game. Hence, I
have to communicate each and every factor to my
team and also listen their innovative ideas for
additional features in the game. Hence, I have
developed communication skill that in what way I
can convey my message and what all content should
be covered in my message.
Innovative skill- This is the most
important skill for an individual and I have learned
this skill while designing the game by having new
and additional features in my game (Bertram
Gallant, 2017). Here, firstly I have analyzed students
interest area while preparing any project or
assignment. Then I applied my findings in my game
by making in more attractive and interesting for
students to play. Hence, this helps to generate
innovative idea.
Team working skill- I am working in
a team for designing this game. Hence, I learned
how to communicate with team mates, appreciating
the good ideas of team mates and the coordination
made with them. Roles and responsibilities while
working in a team is different from roles and
responsibilities while working individually. Hence, I
have learned the team working skill from this game.
REFERENCES
Book and journal
Bertram Gallant, T., 2017. Academic integrity as a teaching & learning issue: From theory to practice. Theory Into Practice, 56(2), pp.88-94.
Fass-Holmes, B., 2017. International Students Reported for Academic Integrity Violations: Demographics, Retention, and Graduation. Journal of International Students, 7(3), pp.664-669.