Risky situations
Be careful of these real academic integrity risks
Here are some examples of situations that can raise a serious risk of academic misconduct and violation of the University’s Code of Behaviour on Academic Matters:
- Altering test answers
- Cellphone in your pocket during an exam
- Crediting or citing sources
- Failing to appropriately cite information
- Forgery of a death certificate
- Forgery of a medical certificate
- Having a friend write a test
- Hidden course notes
- Improperly cited sources
- Posting work online
- Resubmitting a previous assignment
- Submitting a friend’s old assignment
- Submitting a purchased essay
- Submitting shared work
- Submitting someone else’s work as your own
- Unreferenced quotes and passages
- Unreferenced sources
- Using answer-providing sites such as Chegg on a marked assessment
- Using ChatGPT or other generative AI tool on a marked assessment
What to do if you:
