TRSM-S2023-Module-intro

What follows are several simulations — interactive stories — about school work. They are fictional, but based on real challenges faced by TRSM students like you every day. Because these are interactive stories, you will be asked to make choices, and the choices you make will affect how each story unfolds. But these are stories, not tests. There are no right or wrong answers — just choices that make the story unfold in different ways. Your choices are not being recorded in any way. At the end of each simulation, you'll be given the chance to go back to the beginning, to try it again, and to see how the story unfolds if you make different choices. ONE LAST THING: don't use the "Back" button on your browser (or you'll be brought back to this page, wherever you are in the story!) Go ahead and click to <a href="https://choicepoint.ca/trsm/integrity2">start the first simulation....</a> © Choice Point Solutions, Inc. 2023

<h3>Academic Integrity at TRSM</h3> Academic integrity is important at the Ted Rogers School of Management, and is governed by TMU's "Policy 60." As a student at TRSM, it is in your best interest to take academic integrity seriously, and you are obligated to do so by the documents you signed upon registration. Maintaining academic integrity is a central part of your education, and a central part of who you are as a person. This short module is aimed to introduce you to key concepts in academic integrity. It includes 3 short "simulations" — interactive stories aimed at helping you explore what it's like to make choices related to academic integrity, and to explore, in a safe way, what the consequences of those choices might be. [[Next...|AcInt1]] <img src="https://assets.choicepoint.ca/logos/images/tmu-trsm-logo-sm.png">

"What is Academic integrity?"</b. Informally, academic integrity means doing your school work honestly. Technically, at TMU, academic integrity means avoiding "academic misconduct," which the TMU's "Policy 60: Academic Integrity" defines as: "Any behaviour that undermines the university’s ability to evaluate fairly students’ academic achievements, or any behaviour that a student knew, or reasonably ought to have known, could gain them or others unearned academic advantage or benefit." In short, academic integrity means doing your own work: it means not cheating on tests, and not engaging in plagiarism (that is, not presenting someone else's work as your own). This short introductory module will look briefly at three topics, before you try out the three simulations that follow. 1) Why is academic integrity important? 2) Why do students sometimes engage in academic misconduct? 3) What are the immediate and longer-term consequences of academic misconduct? [[Next...|importance]]

Academic integrity — avoiding academic misconduct — is important for two main sets of reasons. The first set of reasons includes a number of ethical reasons, reasons having to do with the moral wrongness of cheating. Cheating involves lying, and trying to gain an unearned advantage. The second set of reasons includes a range of practical reasons, having to do with the harmful effect that academic misconduct can have on you, your academic career, and your relationships with your peers and instructors. We'll come back to the potential consequences in a minute. But first, let's look at what it is that sometimes motivates students to engage in misconduct. [[Next...|causes]]

Students who engage in academic misconduct may do so for a range of reasons. Sometimes it's just a matter of poor time management: they've left their essay until the last minute, and now they feel they "have no choice" but to copy a friend's essay or copy something from the Internet. In some cases, students engage in academic misconduct out of ignorance — that is, out of a lack of understanding about what constitutes 'plagiarism,' or a lack of understanding about proper citation methods, or a failure to appreciate just how serious academic misconduct is, under university policy. The simulation you are about to try out is designed in part to get you to think ahead, to get you to appreciate the pressures that sometimes tempt students to cheat, and to understand how serious the potential consequences are. After you've tried the simulation, and seen for yourself what the consequences of academic misconduct can be, we'll end this module with a short explanation of the other worrisome consequences that can result from misconduct. OK, so now it's time to go ahead [[try the simulations...|preface to sim]]