Academic Integrity Process

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Students are expected to be honest in their academic work and respectful with their classroom behavior. All your actions should align with expectations in the Code of Student Conduct which can be found below.

Academic Sabotage: An intentional effort to corrupt or negatively impact another student's academic work. 

Cheating: Copying, collaborating, or completing an academic exercise with or for other students or parties without permission from the class-assigned faculty member; paying someone to complete assignments; using any unauthorized materials to assist on assignments; misusing study aids such as Chegg, Quizlet, Course Hero, etc., to complete or pass class assignments; using test banks or copying answers from another source or student. This also includes unauthorized use of artificial intelligence sites including, but not limited to, ChatGPT, Dall-E, Alpha Code, Tensor Flow, Scribe, etc., and any act or behavior that gives the student an unfair advantage.

Fabrication: Inventing, altering, falsifying, creating data, citation, or information in an academic exercise or for any improper purpose. Knowingly presenting false or falsified official documentation such as transcripts, doctor's notes, supervisor evaluations, application materials, etc. 

Facilitation: Helping another person participate in any act of academic misbehavior (including, but not limited to, sharing course materials without permission).

Misrepresentation: Misleading an instructor as to the condition under which the work was prepared, including, but not limited to, undisclosed Artificial Intelligence (AI) use, substituting for another student, or permitting another person to substitute for oneself on any academic work.

Plagiarism: Intentional or unintentional use of someone else's scholarly or academic work, language, ideas, or other material as your own without proper citation in an academic exercise (whether reproduced or presented verbatim or in paraphrased or summary form); recycling a previous assignment as a new assignment without appropriate citation or notification and approval from faculty members.

Contact

Student Accountability & Academic Integrity

Code of Student Conduct

Academic Integrity Violation Form

Academic Integrity Options

Option A: Voluntary Resolution

An Academic Integrity Voluntary Resolution is an informal way to resolve an academic integrity concern between the faculty member and the student. The faculty member meets with the student and outlines the information discovered. If the student accepts responsibility for the academic misbehavior, the faculty member and student will come to an agreed resolution. The faculty member may assign an appropriate grade sanction (e.g., an F in the course or an F for the assignment or exam, redo/resubmit the original assignment, etc.). After the agreement is reached, the faculty member will submit a report to OSAAI using the

Option B: Academic Integrity Meeting

An Academic Integrity Meeting is a formal resolution that is handled by a Conduct Educator in OSAAI. During this meeting, the alleged misbehavior is discussed, evidence is presented, and the student is able to give their perspective of the incident. The faculty members are present to present their case to OSAAI and answer any clarifying questions.

Academic Integrity Resources

Ask Before You Sign

Students are not expected to agree/disagree with an academic integrity voluntary resolution at the time that the alleged misbehavior is brought to their attention and a resolution is proposed. Students are encouraged to contact the Office of Student Accountability & Academic Integrity at 757-683-3431 or osaai@odu.edu with questions prior to signing the Academic Integrity Voluntary Resolution Form.