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Academic Integrity Tutorial: Test your Existing Knowledge

Complete the Poll

Complete the following poll to see how your assumptions compare to others.

Clicking will compare your response to others, but does not determine a right or wrong answer. The poll is merely a way to establish some common ideas about access to information and its acceptable use. To learn more, click the Don't Know link.

Agree or Disagree?

Visiting the library is unnecessary because everything I need when doing research can be found using Google.
Agree: 1790 votes (8.94%)
Disagree: 17570 votes (87.76%)
Don't know: 660 votes (3.3%)
Total Votes: 20020
Information I find online has no copyright attached to it; it is free for me to use.
Agree: 1015 votes (5.2%)
Disagree: 17651 votes (90.47%)
Don't know: 844 votes (4.33%)
Total Votes: 19510
Openly licensed materials such as text, music, or images that carry a Creative Commons license don’t require a citation when reusing.
Agree: 1694 votes (8.77%)
Disagree: 15783 votes (81.67%)
Don't know: 1848 votes (9.56%)
Total Votes: 19325
Wikipedia is not usually considered a reliable source of information for academic research.
Agree: 16759 votes (86.3%)
Disagree: 2245 votes (11.56%)
Don't know: 416 votes (2.14%)
Total Votes: 19420
Risks associated with plagiarism are over-rated because nothing is original and everything can be remixed.
Agree: 1189 votes (6.21%)
Disagree: 17398 votes (90.83%)
Don't know: 568 votes (2.97%)
Total Votes: 19155
No one owns the information generated by chatbots like ChatGPT, so it is free for me to use without attribution.
Agree: 163 votes (3.02%)
Disagree: 4928 votes (91.41%)
Don't know: 300 votes (5.56%)
Total Votes: 5391
Undeclared or unauthorized use of AI tools to produce work for academic credit (assignments, theses or dissertations) is a form of academic misconduct.
Agree: 5061 votes (94.49%)
Disagree: 234 votes (4.37%)
Don't know: 61 votes (1.14%)
Total Votes: 5356
Avoiding academic misconduct is about developing good academic and time management skills.
Agree: 16122 votes (84.54%)
Disagree: 2327 votes (12.2%)
Don't know: 622 votes (3.26%)
Total Votes: 19071
The values of academic integrity - honesty, trust, fairness, respect, responsibility, and courage - are worth upholding, even in the face of adversity.
Agree: 18662 votes (97.65%)
Disagree: 268 votes (1.4%)
Don't know: 181 votes (0.95%)
Total Votes: 19111

Sample Quiz Question

Which of the following constitutes academic misconduct?
Seeking to acquire or acquiring prior knowledge of the contents of any examination question or paper with the intent of gaining an unfair advantage: 266 votes (1.35%)
Consulting or seeking the assistance of others when writing a “take home” examination unless permitted by the course instructor: 138 votes (0.7%)
Altering answers on a returned examination: 146 votes (0.74%)
Collaborating with other students without the express consent of the instructor: 57 votes (0.29%)
Presenting the work, words or ideas of someone else as your own: 396 votes (2.02%)
All of the above: 18473 votes (94.1%)
None of the above: 155 votes (0.79%)
Total Votes: 19631

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