ACademic Integrity

Standards of Academic Integrity

Having academic integrity means valuing and demonstrating positive regard for:

• Intellectual honesty

• Personal truthfulness

• Learning for its own sake

• The creations and opinions of others (i.e., intellectual property)

You are acting with academic integrity to the extent that you demonstrate these values, and in particular:

• Take full credit for your own work, and give full credit to others who have helped you or influenced you, or whose work you have incorporated into your own.

• Represent your own work honestly and accurately.

• Collaborate with other students only as specifically directed and authorized.

• Report breaches of academic integrity to a teacher, counselor, or administrator.

What is cheating?

Cheating is defined as seeking to obtain (or aiding another to obtain) credit or improved scores through the use of any unauthorized or deceptive means.

Some examples of what cheating looks like:

• Presenting information collected, organized, or envisioned bysomeone else as your own (with or without the author’s permission) or allowing someone else to present your work as his or her own.

• Taking shortcuts (such as unauthorized use of study aids) that allow you to bypass steps of an assignment.

• Using forbidden material to "help" during an exam, such as cheat sheets, graphing calculators, or cell phones.

• Asking about or sharing questions and/or answers to quizzes and exams.

• Submitting the same work for more than one assignment without express permission from your teacher(s).

• Altering corrections or scores with the intent of changing your grade.

• Misrepresenting yourself in any way to your teachers in regard to the work you have done, such as saying you’ve turned in an assignment when you did not, or that you’ve worked hours longer than you actually did to complete an assignment.

• Fabricating information to try to earn more time, more credit, or grading leniency on an assignment, project, or exam.

• Missing class in order to avoid turning in an assignment or taking a test.

• Doing more or less than your share of a group project without permission from your teacher.

Internet Etiquette or "Netiquette"

Guidelines for Engagement:

• • Be professional. Engage in relevant discussions, avoid partisan political messaging.

  • Be respectful. Express opinion with civility, avoid insulting and/or offensive language.

  • Be considerate. Respect and value the contributions of others by affording them the opportunity to learn, share and grow in a non-threatening environment.

Prohibited Content/Activity

Prohibited Content includes, but is not limited to content that:

• is patently offensive and promotes racism, bigotry, hatred or physical harm of any kind against any group or individual;

• harasses or advocates harassment of another person;

• exploits adults or children in a sexual or violent manner;

• contains nudity, violence, or offensive subject matter or contains a link to an adult website;

• promotes information that you know is false or misleading or promotes illegal activities or conduct that is abusive, threatening, obscene, discriminatory, defamatory or libelous;

• involves the transmission of "junk mail," "chain letters," or unsolicited mass mailing, instant messaging, or "spamming;'

• furthers or promotes any criminal activity or enterprise or provides instructional information about illegal activities including, but not limited to promoting terrorism, making or buying illegal weapons, violating someone's privacy, or providing or creating computer viruses;

• violates any law, rule, regulation of statute, including any communications laws;

• solicits passwords or personal identifying information for commercial, criminal or unlawful purposes from other users;

• involves commercial activities and/or sales or marketing activities not authorized and sponsored by the College Board such as contests, sweepstakes, barter, advertising, or pyramid schemes;

• depicts a photograph or other image of another person posted without that person's prior, written consent or, in the case of minors, the written consent of that minor's parent or legal guardian.