Final thoughts Thanks everyone for joining us for this coffee course! It has been really interesting for us to hear your thoughts on the issues during the course. I heard a lot of concern from all the participants around the challenges of balancing empathetic teaching and firmly dealing academic misconduct […]
The big picture on academic integrity As we’ve seen from recent events, it’s vital for students to have a comprehensive understanding of academic integrity and plagiarism before the leave university and enter the work force. But academic integrity goes far beyond Turnitin alone, and ideally should be addressed before students […]
Today’s post is by Debbie Wilson, who is the Senior Academic Integrity Officer in the Academic Standards and Quality Office (ASQO) at the ANU. Debbie advises and trains staff on the ANU’s Academic Misconduct Rule, supports staff throughout the various stages of the procedures, and manages the central academic misconduct […]
Vivien Silvey from ASLC joins us again today to discuss unacceptable text matches in Turnitin. What makes a text match unacceptable? Checking through text matches in students’ work can help to identify where there may be issues with their use and attribution of sources. Common problems include: Broken text matches, […]
What makes a match acceptable? For this post we welcome Dr. Vivien Silvey from the ANU’s Academic Skills and Learning Centre. Vivien Silvey has over 6 years teaching in higher education, as an academic and in her current Learning Adviser role. She has particular interest in academic integrity including developing […]
What is academic integrity? Academic integrity is a core value for higher education. For ANU students, this “embodies the principle that a student’s work is original and authentic.” Working within an online environment generates many new issues around academic integrity and raises the need to educate students about academic integrity […]