New Academic Integrity Online Course for Students

During the summer UCL Arena developed a new online and self-paced course to help students understand Academic Integrity. This course is now live, and all departments are encouraged to publicise this to students and include it in departmental inductions. 

The course is designed to help UCL students to develop good academic practice for completing assessments, and will help students develop an understanding of when poor practice becomes academic misconduct, what the consequences can be of plagiarism and other forms of academic misconduct, including collusion and contract cheating, and receive useful ideas for working with sources to help present their own arguments. The new course helps demonstrate the importance of academic integrity, and gives students some tools for developing it in their own work. 

Students are also expected to take the course if they are found to have committed Poor Academic Practice or any other form of Academic Misconduct. 

The course also contains numerous case studies to help students understand exactly what can constitute Academic Misconduct, and can be used alongside the Updated Student Academic Integrity Website.

Full instructions on accessing the course are available via the Student Academic Integrity website via: 

Understanding Academic Integrity

For further information please contact academicregulations@ucl.ac.uk