What is academic integrity?
Academic integrity is understanding and practicing honesty and ethical behaviour in your learning. It is a set of skills that enables you to find, read and synthesise information, while acknowledging where those ideas originated.
Academic integrity means doing the right thing, even when no one else is watching. It is a practice that flows from academic life into the workplace, informed by your values, and facilitating ethical practice in your career.
We often refer to a situation where one breaches academic integrity standards, as academic misconduct. Plagiarism is one of the most common forms of academic misconduct.
Searching and evaluating library/research sources
To avoid plagiarism or any form of academic misconduct, you need to have the skills to be able to identify suitable sources of information and learning and incorporate these effectively and correctly into your studies at all levels. This includes acknowledging your sources of information.
GO TO: Module 6 (Digital Skills Hub) for more information on best practice when referencing websites.
Using AI systems to generate your answers for assessments
The use of ChatGPT or similar AI systems to generate/write your assessment answers is considered a breach of academic integrity.
Using Turnitin
Some of our programme use Turnitin. Turnitin is a platform that can be used to help you assess the originality of your work in some of our programmes. It does so by detecting text that matches with other online sources or documents. When you submit your work through the submission point, it will go through Turnitin and return a report of how much your text matches with existing resources. It is your responsibility to ensure that any matching text is duly acknowledged or reworked and cited accordingly. Failure to do that may lead to your assessor determining that you have been engaged in academic misconduct.
It's important to approach your education with integrity and a genuine desire to learn. If you're struggling with assessments, it's better to seek help from your tutor or your classmates to help you understand the material better.
Kia ora, how are you doing so far?
We just threw a fair bit of information your way. We know you won’t remember every little thing, but we also know that by using these techniques, you’ll be more successful in your studies. It’s plain, simple, and proven. At the same time, you’ll build a community of people around you and gain the confidence that you have done everything you can to set yourself up for success.
Take the quiz again
Remember the quiz at the beginning of this section? See if you do better this time around.
Did you do better than the first time? If you did, then good on you! Now that you know what to do, it’s just a matter of actually doing it. If you keep your career goals in mind, we know you’ll smash your online studies.
