Academic Integrity

All work submitted for credit in any class is expected to be the original work of the student submitting the work. If the submitted work is not the original effort of the student and/or if the words and ideas of other sources are not properly credited, this is a violation of the Academic Dishonesty policy.

Penalties for cheating, plagiarism, or the inappropriate use of technology to generate student work may include loss of credit for the assignment, re-submitting the assignment or re-taking the assessment, parent conference, suspension from school, and/or possible removal from the class with the need to re-take the class. Administration has final authority in referrals for cheating or plagiarism.

Examples of Academic Dishonesty include but are not limited to any situation in which a student:

• Uses Artificial Intelligence (i.e. ChatGPT, Bard, etc…) to generate an assignment intended to be used as an assessment for/of student learning
• Copies another student’s work with or without their permission
• Allows work to be copied by another student(s)
• Copies and enhances work which is not their own original product
• Forwards or transmits work electronically that is pertinent to a test, quiz or class activity
• Submits work which is not their ownIs responsible for or participates in the transference of confidential information (e.g. test answers or test/quiz copies) from one class to another
• Brings to a testing situation, without authorization, written information that is pertinent to a test, quiz or class activity
• Restates another’s work or ideas and claims them as one’s own.

Students should ask the following questions to assure they are not plagiarizing:

• Have I copied, word for word, all or part of another writer’s work without giving specific credit to that other writer and using quotation marks?
• Have I copied the work of another writer, artist, or other, making changes here and there, but retaining the main ideas, thought and/or structure?
• In the case of fiction, have I used a plot invented by another writer, even though telling the story in one’s own words?