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[2024] Academic Integrity Tutorial: Test Your Existing Knowledge

Complete the Poll

Complete the poll below to assess your current understanding of your rights and responsibilities as a University of Saskatchewan student. This reflective activity will help you recognize gaps in your knowledge and establish connections between your what you already know and the new concepts presented in this module.

Clicking will compare your response to others but does not provide a right or wrong answer. The poll is merely a way to help you determine what you do or do not know about the rules and regulations that govern your academic behaviour. To learn more about each topic, click Don't Know.

Agree/Disagree

Guidelines for behaving with academic integrity can be found in a document called 'Regulations on Student Academic Misconduct'.
Agree: 1882 votes (94.38%)
Disagree: 35 votes (1.76%)
Don't know: 77 votes (3.86%)
Total Votes: 1994
Ignorance of the rules is an acceptable excuse when suspected of engaging in academic misconduct.
Agree: 122 votes (6.19%)
Disagree: 1829 votes (92.84%)
Don't know: 19 votes (0.96%)
Total Votes: 1970
Instructors are fulfilling their responsibilities when they communicate academic integrity expectations along with providing the syllabus and instructions about assessments.
Agree: 1872 votes (97.55%)
Disagree: 28 votes (1.46%)
Don't know: 19 votes (0.99%)
Total Votes: 1919
Students are responsible for seeking clarification when faced with varying expectations from different instructors.
Agree: 1860 votes (97.54%)
Disagree: 34 votes (1.78%)
Don't know: 13 votes (0.68%)
Total Votes: 1907
Wherever appropriate, the university will attempt to resolve complaints through informal processes before invoking formal processes, and wherever possible, sanctions will be educational rather than punitive.
Agree: 1697 votes (88.94%)
Disagree: 135 votes (7.08%)
Don't know: 76 votes (3.98%)
Total Votes: 1908
In their decision-making process, a hearing board must balance the rights and well-being of students involved in academic misconduct cases.
Agree: 1712 votes (89.12%)
Disagree: 125 votes (6.51%)
Don't know: 84 votes (4.37%)
Total Votes: 1921
Fairness requires that procedures for deciding academic misconduct cases allow students to participate and that decision-makers are impartial.
Agree: 1678 votes (89.26%)
Disagree: 116 votes (6.17%)
Don't know: 86 votes (4.57%)
Total Votes: 1880
Students have the right to access support services and to appeal a decision made by the university regarding academic misconduct.
Agree: 1802 votes (96.31%)
Disagree: 32 votes (1.71%)
Don't Know: 37 votes (1.98%)
Total Votes: 1871

Sample Quiz Question

Informal procedures at USask may be used to do which of the following
Address infractions that are minor enough not to warrant a formal hearing: 271 votes (1.95%)
Reach an agreement between instructor and student about whether academic misconduct occurred: 261 votes (1.88%)
Resolve an incident using a grade reduction by a percentage appropriate to the academic misconduct and/or resubmission of the work in question: 255 votes (1.84%)
Create a temporary record of the misconduct to be kept for up to 5 years or until the student has completed their program: 96 votes (0.69%)
All of the above: 12480 votes (89.97%)
None of the above: 135 votes (0.97%)
No Idea: 373 votes (2.69%)
Total Votes: 13871

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