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[2024] Academic Integrity Tutorial: Welcome

Important Notice

This is the new [2024] Academic Integrity Tutorial that will soon replace the older 2018 version. You may be here because this resource was recommended to you or is being required by your program or course instructor. Key features of this 2024 version include updated content with new STEM and Generative AI examples. Additionally, this version provides only one cumulative certificate upon completion, compared to the 2018 version, which awards four certificates, one per module.

Students: Before you begin, please check with your instructor to confirm which version of the tutorial you are required to complete for your course.

Instructors: Please provide guidance on which version students should complete. For more information about the changes, please visit the Academic Integrity webpage.

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Welcome to USask's New Academic Integrity Tutorial

"As we gather here today, we acknowledge we are on Treaty 6 Territory and the Homeland of the Métis. We pay our respect to the First Nations and Métis ancestors of this place and reaffirm our relationship with one another." 

- University Council

Academic Integrity is an integral part of academic life at USask, and this tutorial explores the guiding principles that govern your role as a student at the university. It serves as an introduction to the core values of academic integrity and is designed to help you understand the university's regulations on academic misconduct, as well as the procedures followed when misconduct is suspected.

While each college and discipline contributes to the academic community differently, they all follow the same set of academic integrity standards. The purpose of this tutorial is to:

  1. Help you learn and understand the expectations for students regarding all academic work
  2. Help you understand your rights as a student and how the Student Misconduct Regulations are applied
  3. Help you develop the skills necessary to uphold academic integrity as a member of the USask community

At the end of this tutorial, you should have a better understanding of the following concepts:

  • Academic integrity and its importance in the academic community
  • The university's regulations and procedures in place to deal with academic misconduct
  • The skill set required to maintain academic integrity and prevent academic misconduct

There are three modules, each concluding with a multiple-choice quiz. These quizzes, along with the activities within each module, will prepare for the final assessment. Successful completion of the final assessment quiz at the end of the tutorial will generate a certificate of completion, which your instructor may require.

It should take you approximately 3 hours to complete the tutorial.

 

Transparency Statement: Portions of this tutorial were developed with the assistance of GenAI. Specifically, Pi.ai, ChatGPT and Perplexity were used to generate quiz and draft content, brainstorm ideas, proof instructions and assist in organizing and formatting tables, and other structured elements. All AI-generated content was thoroughly reviewed, edited, and verified by human educators to ensure accuracy, relevance, and coherence and, where necessary, supplemented with additional research and expertise. The content provided is for educational purposes only and should not be considered a substitute for advice, guidance or requirements from instructors or the institution.

Permissions and Acknowledgement

All the information and material in this tutorial about academic integrity at the University of Saskatchewan is adapted from the Student Academic Misconduct Regulations and is used with permission from the Governance Office.

All information about the values associated with academic integrity is adapted from the "Fundamental Values of Academic Integrity", provided by the International Center of Academic Integrity and is under a Creative Commons CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 license.     

The tutorial includes embedded documents and links to websites and materials. If you use any of the information, please ensure to comply with the terms and conditions of use imposed by the owners or licensees of those materials.

The tutorial itself is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License(CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)
Please attribute this work to The University Library, University of Saskatchewan.

The University of Saskatchewan's main campus is situated on Treaty 6 Territory and the Homeland of the Métis.

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