Colorado Community Colleges Online

Violations of academic integrity include

• sharing login information
• submitting coursework completed by another
• receiving unauthorized assistance with coursework
• committing an act of plagiarism

Click each violation type below to reveal the definition.

Allowing anyone to use login information and participate in or otherwise communicate in a course under any circumstances. In urgent circumstances, students can contact their home college or Student Services to reach a faculty.

Faculty are required to include a phone and external email contact mehod for students on the syllabus. Additionally, faculty are encouraged to have the Division Chair and Academic Dean's contact information available for use in urgent situations.

Using coursework created or otherwise completed by another, such as a service that writes a paper or sells a paper. Having anyone complete coursework or using another's coursework from a prior term or another course. Since these types of coursework are not produced by the student, submitting them as their work is dishonest.

Reusing the same assignments over several terms or across several courses may encourage cheating. Focusing on task based assignments can increase originality in coursework.

Communication by phone, text, chat or otherwise working with another during coursework UNLESS approved by the instructor in advance. Authorized assistance occurs with an acknowledgment in coursework of tutoring, study group collaboration, assistance from a librarian, or any other source.

Spontaneous sharing of ideas with others may influence student coursework. This is a natural and valuable part of education. Instructors could encourage students to describe collaboration that occurred as part of a reflection portion of coursework submissions.

To plagiarize includes, but is not limited to: (a) copying, (b) writing, or (c) presenting another person’s or entity’s (a) information, (b) ideas, (c) graphics or (d) phrasing without properly acknowledging the true source via appropriate citation format. CCCOnline expects all student work to be (a) new (b) unique (c) original (d) created by the individual student for each discrete class as directed by the instructor. Please note that CCCOnline instructors may use TurnItIn or other plagiarism prevention/text matching services in conjunction with grading any student work. Additionally, plagiarism has been compared by scholars to stealing or counterfeiting, “fakes” true academic scholarship, and weakens the “economy” of higher education. Therefore, it is important that there be stringent consequences for plagiarism and other forms of academic dishonesty.