5 Academic Integrity Policy & Procedures
NSCC’s Student Academic Integrity Policy, outlines your rights and responsibilities in terms of academic integrity. Please familiarize yourself with this policy. You can read the NSCC Academic Integrity Policy on the Polices and Procedures page of the NSCC website.
Key Takeaways
- Students have a responsibility to meet the highest standards of Academic Integrity
- Students must not commit Integrity Violations
What is meant by Integrity Violation?
It means “engaging in, attempting to engage in, or assisting others to engage or attempt to engage in conduct that violates the standard of academic integrity”. Violations include:
- Cheating and / or plagiarism
- Misrepresentation / Contract cheating
- Fabrication
- Forgery or falsification of documents
- Assisting another student in committing an integrity violation
- Infringement of copyright
- A note on copyright: in Canada any original work created in a fixed form automatically has copyright protection — the copyright owner is the person who created the work [except when the creator is an employee and creates the work as part of their employment]. Copyright protection is the default status and does require a copyright statement or copyright symbol.
Test Your Understanding
Now complete the following quiz to check your understanding.
Have a look at the following scenarios and check the correct answer(s) to each. There may be more than one correct answer. You may need to scroll down to see the whole page. Please go through all 7 slides.
