Plagiarism Game Project: Design & Importance of Academic Integrity

This project outlines the creation of 'Point the Plag,' a game developed to educate students about plagiarism and promote academic integrity. The game works by identifying instances of plagiarism in student-submitted text and converting those phrases into 'spins' or alternative word choices. The project details the game's instructions, including how students can use the game through college websites or mobile devices, create accounts, and submit paragraphs for plagiarism analysis. The game also incorporates an AI-driven question system and a point system for rewards and competition. The project further discusses the importance of academic integrity in universities, highlighting the fraud triangle and the role of pressure and mental stress in academic misconduct. The game incorporates technical skills, innovation, design, and writing skills to develop software that points out plagiarism effectively. The project also mentions the development of the software for windows and IOS, and soon android. The report concludes with a list of references used in the project.

Plagiarism game

Introduction
Article spinner is the game which will help to get information about the article used within
project of student. This game depends upon knowing what the content is and how a new content
is managed by replacing specific words, sentences and phrases. This is a process that is done
using automated timing. In this game, if three consecutive words of the paragraph are same
which are already submitted on internet or portal, then those words will be converted into spins.
The game developed is “Point the plag”. This game will be useful for students in order to
manage the plagiarism in their work. they will get benefit of managing the work and handling all
operations in effective manner. This game will help students to manage their projects and before
submitting they can check whether their work is plagiarism free or not.
Instructions for playing the game
The game design of “Point the plag” depends upon the concept of plagiarism. This will help
students to manage their work and effectively submit plagiarism free projects. There are different
strategies used for managing the game design and considering the establishment of effective
game that will help to manage the work. the instructions for new game “Point the Plag” is
mentioned below -
 Students has to operate the game and enter different levels of game. In this game, there is
opportunity to change themes and colours according to mind. Student has the chance to
maintain an effective level of their own convenience to use the game application.
 There are several offers and packages of this game. This game is designed for students
and it uses different colours, themes, tablets, etc. Page for this game is designed in such a
manner that students get attracted and they will be happy to use this plagiarism game
application.
 Students have the opportunity to use this game by using it through college’s website or
they can download it on mobile phones and computers by using playstore. It is analysed
that students are able to manage their plagiarism reports. It is concluded that students
must know how to manage the work properly and conduct the effective game
implementation.

 Students have access to the game and in here, they can generate their login ID’s by using
personal emails. This can be used by all students above 13 years of age.
 Students can make their own paragraph and this will help to manage the ability to know
how much plagiarism is present in the paragraphs they have provided. There are several
questions which can be asked through the AI technique added in the game.
 There are several parts within game and it is analysed that when three consecutive words
from the provided paragraph are written somewhere on internet then those words will
become spins.
 These pins will be then converted to new words that can be used at the place of earlier
words. These will help students to manage the plagiarism words and know what new can
be added into the place of plagiarised words. s
 Player has to make choose the word which are floating on screen, after that as per the
selection of word, questions are comes in screen and player has to answer that question.
 All the points are scored and stored on the account, which are usable in terms of rewards
of comparison with their friends.
 This game can also be played at online with making competition with their own friends.
An explanation why academic integrity at university is so important
The concept of academic integrity is defined as an essential part of tertiary study. The main
reason behind the importance of academic integrity is that it helps students to bring new and
effective ideas for their projects. This is very important for an individual to give best chance of
success after analysing the assessment with an honest attitude. The concept of academic integrity
is defined as foundation of academic scholarship and in this students often need guidance and
confusing. This is an emerging initiative taken by universities for managing students. There is
need for enabling students to conduct academic projects properly. Academic misconduct is
defined as action that one takes in the breach of principle for academic integrity. This provides
advantage to students in order to give them fair treatments and judgements. Fraud triangle is
known as a technique of academic integrity. This is an intervention for minimising likelihood of
academic misconduct. The concept of academic triangle represents that students conduct fraud
when they have any pressure while doing the projects. In context of fraud triangle, it is analysed
that pressure must be minimised for students. Second reason of students to conduct fraud is
mental stress and pressure. There are conditions where students feel intense level of pressure

and they commit plagiarism in their work. Academic integrity board concept is a variant of snake
and ladders game. This provides pathway from starting the university to graduation level. If the
chosen game is inappropriate, then it takes longer time for graduation. Students are allowed to
work in pair and they have their turns in one round. A move helps to reach new square. When
students move across the game board at a particular point then plagiarism is managed.
Skills used for producing the game
There are several skills that I have used while making this project of game. I have used my
technical skills to manage the development of game and how it can be used for checking
plagiarism effectively. I have worked hard and studied various sources to develop a software
which easily points out plagiarism in a file and highlights the plagiarism used in a file with spins.
The name of software designed by me is Point the Plag. I have also tested this software on
several platforms and it proves to be worthy. I have used my innovation, design and written skills
in order to develop this special application. It took me 10 months to design the application. It
also took me extra 3 months to design the same for windows.
Plagiarism is use of ideas,thoughts and writings of someone. It is copying or stealing someone
else's data for some benefit. The benefits can be primary or secondary depending upon the
demand of data. In era of globalisation Plagiarism is mainly performed by students as most of
data related to their study and reports is available on the internet. So students directly copy data
from internet and paste it in their content. It is practised all over the globe on heavy basis as it
becomes easy for the user to directly get the data. The practice of plagiarism is also performed in
many companies by employees. Employees do not find data on their own they just copy it from
internet and submit it to managers. In recent times this problem is a major issue for management
and they are continuously searching for solution. Plagiarism is also done by students in their
examinations and in their projects.
Increasing plagiarism in whole world motivated me for making a software which directly catches
plagiarism. The software designed is very quick in performing operations which will help many
users to identify plagiarism in a content. It is also compatible with windows and IOS. I am also
doing continuous research as I soon want to develop this software for android. For the same I
have hired professional software engineers. In coming 2 months I will launch Beta version of this

software. Beta version will be available to selected users. Due to high demand in market for
plagiarism identifying software I have focused on research and development department which is
continuously working on its development.
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