Plagiarism Captcha Game: A Design for Academic Misconduct Avoidance

This project details the design of a "Plagiarism Captcha" game, created to educate students about academic integrity, plagiarism, and academic misconduct within a university setting. The game is designed to be engaging, requiring players to log in with personal credentials and solve challenges related to plagiarism, academic misconduct, and academic integrity to progress. The game incorporates three segments: plagiarism, academic misconduct, and academic integrity, with a scoring system to determine eligibility for assessment uploads. The game aims to reinforce the importance of honesty, trust, fairness, respect, and responsibility, which are identified as key pillars of academic integrity. The project reflects the student's creative and innovative skills, problem-solving techniques, and understanding of academic integrity principles, emphasizing the value of ethical behavior and the consequences of academic dishonesty. The game's design includes a captcha system to prevent cheating and ensures that students cannot bypass the learning components. Furthermore, the design incorporates features to upgrade and change questions to avoid copying and cheating.

Game Design
It is a great opportunity for me to design such an ethical and knowledgeable game
for the students to encourage them for academic integrity and teach them to avoid
plagiarism and academic misconduct. By analysing the situation of academic
misconduct and practice of plagiarism in student I was able to learn and study this
wide topic in deep which has given me a lesson of been fair and honest in life and in
work. I have reflected my creative and innovative skills in designing the model and
name of the game. The features and working of the game are developed with
strategic thinking, deeper knowledge of the subjects and problem solving
techniques. With my effective learning and flexibility, the game will also provide
students with instant and effective knowledge and flexible platform to play. I have
ethical and fair habit of working which is highly reflected in my designing and
structuring the questions of the game. During the process of designing of the game I
have personally learned so much about the academic integrity factors like trust,
honesty, respect and responsibility in the work and daily actions of the life and
career to make it valuable and honourable for the future. Additionally, this
framework of Plagiarism Captcha will reflect all my experience and knowledge that
will help the students to avoid academic misconduct like plagiarism and work with
integrity to become successful and attract others with their trust and honesty.
Introduction
Academic misconduct is attempt of gain academic advantage through unfair
action which likely to sabotage the academic integrity in the students of university
in the assessment they are submitting. Plagiarism a practice of stealing someone
else idea or work and presenting it as one's own work is one of the academic
misconduct.
The craze and habit of playing games is increasing rapidly in students of the
university and college along with their heavy impact in students learning in life.
To play the game person must login the account with personal login id
and password for data security and authentication.
The student is required to click any one among the six options.
Game have three segments: plagiarism segment, academic misconduct
segment and academic integrity segment. To win the game aggregate of these
three should be more than 50 points. As that will only make student applicable for
uploading the assessments.
Plagiarism Captcha is designed to avoid plagiarism and academic
misconduct in students therefore student must have basic knowledge of these
topics in order to play game successfully.
Student should not leave game in between without getting their personal
feedbacks regarding improvement and knowledge of academic integrity else
student won't be able to upload an assignment and student will fail.
The questions of captcha will be upgraded and changed each and every
time student login the portal to avoid copying and cheating.
Internal analysis
 Trust: trust is the factor to start and maintain the relationship with others in the university. Trust is a
factor that will bring best out of everyone and conduct the fair and ethical practices all over the place.
 Honesty: honesty means discipline and sincerity in the work of the student. In university honesty in
student and instructors build the pure and fair relationship. Honesty in actions is must to add value to
other factors of academic integrity.
 Fairness: fairness is unbiased and ethical actions in the judgement of the instructors and in team
work of the students. The best should be fairly praised in the university to maintain the academic
integrity.
 Respect: This factor is all about respecting the other person like class fellows, teachers, staffs etc. in
the academic area like university. This is done by listening to them attentively and understanding
their point of view to meet deadlines and to have honest feedbacks.
 Responsibility: In academic integrity responsibility means positively taking the accountability of
work and actions. This factor also considers encouraging others to work with integrity as everyone
invest their efforts and time in doing the work.
Hence, including all these factors of academic integrity in the university reinforce the reputation of the
organisation. A degree without the academic integrity is useless and valueless.
Academic integrity is so important for the university to make the learning and knowledge in students
worth full and valuable for lifetime. Integrity is all about doing fair and right things when no one is watching
and this should be seen in their actions and work. Academic integrity helps the university and students in
avoiding the academic misconducts like cheating, leaking examination papers, plagiarism, unethical practices
etc. Academic integrity makes the academic environment morally strong and ethical. Hence, with academic
integrity deserving one is rewarded and recognized for its hard work and outstanding performance in the
university.
Instructions for playing the Plagiarism Captcha game
Instructions for playing the Plagiarism Captcha game
Academic integrity is the quality or characteristic that one commit and
demonstrate in the academic setting by not conducting any kind of unfair and
unethical practice in their academic work and behaviour. Academic integrity is
principal of the teaching and learning process and this quality should be in both
students and teachers. There are the five pillars of academic integrity:
A summary of your reflection on the skills used to
produce the game
Conclusion
It is concluded from concept of the game design related to avoidance of plagiarism
and academic misconduct that these unethical practices are breaking the roots of
morality, honesty and trust in the students. Students are outreaching the ways to get
their work done without any hard work and knowledge by copying or stealing the
others work. It has now becoming so important for universities to teach and learn
academic integrity so foster the work and reputation.
References
Fatemi, G. and Saito, E., 2020. Unintentional plagiarism and academic integrity: The
challenges and needs of postgraduate international students in Australia. Journal of
Further and Higher Education. 44(10). pp.1305-1319.
Levine, J. and Pazdernik, V., 2018. Evaluation of a four-prong anti-plagiarism
program and the incidence of plagiarism: a five-year retrospective study. Assessment
& Evaluation in Higher Education. 43(7). pp.1094-1105.