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If a group assignment is failed then the resubmitted work must be changed by a minimum of 25% to make it an individual piece of work.
This means if a Group Presentation is 12 slides a minimum of 3 must be different to the group submission. If the assignment is a Group Poster with 6 text boxes then a minimum of 2 of them must be different to the Group Poster.
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The lecturer will grade as 1 and the written feedback will state ‘This resubmission should be individual and a minimum of 25% of the assignment has not changed’.
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Where a written assignment has text that is unable to be read by Turnitin because it is either a graphical image (excluding Presentations & Posters); for example, a screenshot or the assignment is written within text boxes on each page.
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This assignment will be graded 0 and the written feedback should state ‘This assignment is unreadable by Turnitin and cannot be checked for Academic Misconduct. It has been referred for an AMC meeting’.
The assignment will then be referred for Academic Misconduct investigation.
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An assignment that does not make use of any Mandatory references provided in the assignment brief/Module Handbook.
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The reference rubric criteria is not moved and that criteria will remain at zero
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An assignment has a reference list, but no citations.
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The reference rubric criteria is not moved and that criteria will remain at zero.
Written feedback should state ’The reference criteria has been graded Zero as no citations have been used. Please include citations in your assignment to support the academic points being made’.
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An assignment has no citations and no reference list.
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Foundation & Level 4 - The reference rubric criteria is not moved and that criteria will remain at zero. The written feedback will state ‘Please ensure that you use citations and references to support your assignment submission’.
At Level 5 and Level 6 this would be graded as a Fail. The lecturer will grade as 1 and written feedback will also show ‘This assignment has no citations and no reference list’.
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Where False references are included in an assignment.
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This will be referred for Academic Misconduct.
This assignment will be graded 0 and the written feedback should state ‘This assignment contains false references and has been referred for Academic Misconduct. You will be invited to attend an Academic Misconduct meeting’.
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Assignment is submitted after the Late Deadline or if it is a Resubmission, after the Resubmission deadline
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This assignment will be graded a Fail.
The lecturer will grade as 1 and written feedback should state `This assignment was submitted after the deadline. Please resubmit at the next resubmission opportunity.`
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Student Integrity and Academic Misconduct
The values of student integrity expected by CCCU are:
- Honesty – being clear about what is your work and where your ideas come from other sources.
- Trust – others can have faith in you being open about your work and acknowledging others’ work.
- Fairness – you do not try to gain an unfair advantage in using others’ work.
- Responsibility – you take an active role in applying the principle of Academic Integrity to your work.
- Respect – you show respect for the work of others.
Peer-support:
Students might choose to get support from their peers when preparing assessments, such as discussing the subject of the assessment, exchanging ideas, and receiving suggestions for improving the work. This is peer-support, and the University accepts this as a reasonable expectation when completing assessments. However, peers must not make any changes to anyone’s assessments as such actions could lead to allegations of academic misconduct.
Use of English as the medium of assessment:
Students cannot write an assessment in another language and subsequently translate their work into English or have it translated by any form of third-party. Use of translation software or third-party translators is a form of academic misconduct.
Artificial Intelligence (AI):
Students must write the entire assessment without using AI software such as ChatGPT. Submitting an assessment that contains any form of AI is a form of academic misconduct.
Proofreading:
Students can make use of Microsoft Word’s grammar and spell-checking functions but the use of Grammarly is not allowed as it uses AI text generation. If students use third-party proofreaders, these cannot make any changes that alter the assessment in any way including correcting language or citation format errors. Identify, search, and assess academic information relevant to higher education study skills. Third-party alterations to the assessment are a form of academic misconduct.
Plagiarism:
Plagiarism can be defined as incorporating another person’s material from books, journals, the internet, another student’s work, or any other source into assessment material without acknowledgement. It includes:
- Using exactly the same words (sentences, phrases or even expressions not in everyday use, invented or created by an author to explain an idea) as used originally
- Rephrasing by making slight adjustments
- Paraphrasing in a way which may deceive the reader as to the source.
- Plagiarism in whatever form it takes is a form of academic misconduct.
Collusion:
If students submit work for assessment that is falsely presented as the student’s own work but was jointly written with somebody else; this is a form of academic misconduct.
Duplication/Self-Plagiarism:
The inclusion in assessments of a significant amount of identical or substantially similar material to that already submitted for assessment by the student and graded for the same course or any other course or module at this University or elsewhere is classed as self-plagiarism. It does not include a resubmission of the same piece of work allowed by the examiners in an improved or revised form for reassessment purposes. Self-plagiarism is a form of academic misconduct.
Further clarification of the above can be found in CCCU’s Academic Misconduct documents below:
CCCU Student Academic Misconduct Procedures can be found below: Please click the link to Open.
https://www.canterbury.ac.uk/asset-library/policy-zone/Student-Academic-Misconduct-Procedures-staff-students.pdf
CCCU Student Academic Integrity Policy can be found below: Please click the link to Open. https://www.canterbury.ac.uk/asset-library/policy-zone/Student-Academic-Integrity-Policy.pdf
