Honor Pledges for Online Exams, Academic Integrity in Remote Courses

Shared by Josh Skov, instructor of management, and the Katy Larkin, Assistant Dean of Students Director of Student Conduct and Community Standards

Josh created this pledge for his course:

Another example:  https://www.rochester.edu/college/honesty/instructors/pledge.html

Katy suggests that invoking consequences of being found responsible for misconduct (“if you do not adhere to these expectations, you will receive a failing grade for this course”) may be somewhat preventative.

For Spring courses, Katy offers his advice:

Promoting Academic Integrity

1. Talk about academic integrity and why it is important as well as what constitutes academic misconduct, and why it is detrimental for students – do this early and often.
2. Provide clear academic integrity guidelines and policy information in the syllabus and/or in your Canvas site.
3. Give clear and specific guidelines about what constitutes acceptable collaboration and sharing of / using others’ work.
4. Provide clear and specific guidelines and resources for source use and citation expectations.
5. Assess students’ knowledge of academic integrity expectations for your course.
6. Hold students accountable for their actions in accordance with University policy.For more ideas about promoting academic integrity, check out these resources: https://www.virtualsalt.com/antiplag.htm and https://academicintegrity.org/links/