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At CCCOnline and the Colorado Community College System, academic integrity is a fundamental value of our community.
CCCOnline students will demonstrate academic integrity in all courses. Students will complete coursework and participate in courses with honesty. Academic integrity ensures that all students have a fair and equal opportunity to succeed. Any behavior that provides an unfair advantage to one student is unacceptable and will not be tolerated. Each piece of work completed by a student must be solely a reflection of that student's own work or his or her contribution to a collaborative effort.
Instructors follow specific procedures for addressing student violations of the Academic Integrity Policy:
Directions: Complete the following tutorial for clarification of the policy, violation procedures, case studies and other resources. Click on the answers to check your understanding. Once you are ready, click the link at the bottom of the page to take the Academic Integrity quiz. Once you successfully complete the Academic Integrity quiz, you will receive a certificate of completion, valid for one year.
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Academic integrity can be defined as acting honestly in all college related activities.
Students enrolled in classes offered by the Colorado Community Colleges Online (CCCOnline) are bound by the home college's Student Guidebook AND the CCCOnline Student Guidebook (link opens in new tab).
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CCCOnline students will demonstrate academic integrity in all courses. Students will complete coursework and participate in courses with honesty by the following:
One way a student violates the Academic Integrity Policy is by committing an act of plagiarism. Plagiarism includes, but is not limited to:
Students are required to use proper citations in the use of any outside resources. Please note that summarized and paraphrased ideas also need to be cited, not just direct quotations. For additional resources on the correct use of citations, please see Citing Your Sources Tutorial.
CCCOnline expects all student work to be created by the student for each individual class as directed by the instructor. Please also note that CCCOnline does not allow self-plagiarism. Examples of self-plagiarism would include:
All coursework submitted for each course should be current, original and unique for that particular course.
Your sister is a Spanish major and volunteered to take your Spanish test for you if you send her your course login, because she knows you have to work and don’t have time to study.
Correct!
Incorrect. You should never give your login to someone else, misrepresent your identity, or allow someone else to complete your work.
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Using coursework created or otherwise completed by another, such as a service that writes a paper for you or sells you a paper. Having anyone complete your coursework or using another's coursework from a prior term or another course.
Since the above types of coursework are not produced by you, submitting them as your work is dishonest.
Cheating demonstrates a lack of respect for your college, your classmates, your instructor, and most of all, yourself and your education!
You are a member of an organization, which maintains an online database of papers, answer keys, assignments, lab reports, and discussion posts that you can borrow to use in your classes. Does this violate the academic integrity policy?
Correct! You must do your own work.
b. No, because you pay membership to the organization, so you can use the benefits.
Incorrect. You must do your own work.
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Communication by phone, text, chat or otherwise working with another during coursework is not allowed UNLESS approved by the instructor in advance. It is also unacceptable to use a calculator, notes, textbook, phone, or other aid device unless permitted.
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 your coursework. This is a natural and valuable part of your education. However, if substantially influential, inform your instructor of the collaboration to avoid possible misunderstandings about the originality of your work.
You are taking a proctored math test, and the rules indicate that no phones, calculators, notes, or aids are permitted. But the webcam can’t see your full desk. Can you still use your calculator because the proctor can’t see it?
Correct!
b. Yes, as long as the proctor cannot see it, it’s okay.
Incorrect. The rules indicate that no phones, calculators, notes, or aids are permitted. This is true regardless of what the webcam can or cannot see.
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It is critical to give credit to others in coursework when appropriate to do so. Not doing so is considered plagiarism. To plagiarize includes, but is not limited to: copying, writing, or presenting another person’s or entity’s information, ideas, graphics or phrasing without properly acknowledging the true source via appropriate citation format. Check with your instructor for the appropriate citation format to use in your class.
CCCOnline expects all student work to be new, unique, original, and 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.
You paraphrased (rewrote) an idea from an article into your own words for a research paper. Do you need to include a citation?
Correct!
b. No, because you are using your own words.
Incorrect. Even though you are using your own words, the author's ideas were still that author's. This requires a citation to avoid plagiarism.
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Instructors follow specific procedures for addressing student violations of the Academic Integrity Policy:
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