University Game Design: Plagiarism Competitors & Academic Integrity

The 'Plagiarism Competitor' game is designed to educate university students about academic integrity through an engaging and interactive platform. Players sign in, answer questions, and participate in levels of increasing difficulty (low, medium, hard) related to plagiarism. Successful players earn bonus points redeemable for cash, providing an incentive for learning. The game aims to foster creativity, research, writing, and problem-solving skills, while discouraging plagiarism and promoting original work. It also supports the university's efforts to address academic misconduct consistently and transparently, preparing students for future career success. The project references academic sources to support its approach to academic integrity.

Instructions for playing the game
Plagiarism Competitors
BMP3003 Further Academic Skills
Academic integrity refers to the fundamental research,
teaching as well as learning within university. Academic
integrity allows students to have freedom for building new
ideas, creative works as well as knowledge while respecting
and acknowledging the others’ work. It involves the ongoing
fostering related to a complex network of responsibilities as
well as strategies within the university community. This
makes university to respond the academic misconduct in
consistent, fair, transparent as well as timely manner. This is
essential for the student to have the best chance for the
success of their future career by doing their assessment task
through an honest attitude.
In order to start the game, participants need to first sign in the
account of game for answering the certain question which has
been asked in their portal.
After answering the question participants can access the
game.
In one chance 3 participants can play the game that is
Plagiarism Competitors. After completion of step, the
participants can access the game.
The participants conduct good performance in this game win
bonus points which can participants redeem in their bank
account.
The Plagiarism Competitor contain different levels which
includes low, medium and hard in order to make the game
more interesting for the participants.
The game creates an effective opportunity for the student to
earn some money while studying in their academic life.
This game also helps in developing the various skills in the
student which helps in making their future career more
effective.
The Plagiarism Competitor has a direct link with plagiarism
in order to stop the misconduct in the university.
This will also help in motivating the student to perform
original rather than copying other work.
An explanation of why academic
integrity at University is so important
Game Design Skills used to produce the game
• Creativity skills
• Research skills
• Writing skills
• Problem solving skills
Name
• Bretag, T. ed., 2020. A research agenda for
academic integrity. Edward Elgar Publishing.
• Ghazali, A. and Aziz, A.A., 2021. Resetting
Integrity Through Communication on Plagiarism:
University Classrooms Weaving Values into the
Social Fabric. International Journal of Learning,
Teaching and Educational Research, 20(12).
• Ashford, T., 2021. App-centric students and
academic integrity: A proposal for assembling
socio-technical responsibility. Journal of
Academic Ethics, 19(1), pp.35-48.
References
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