Students: to understand academic responsibilities and the consequences of breaches of academic integrity.

Staff and affiliates: to guide the promotion and management of academic integrity.

As a student, you are responsible for acting with academic integrity. This means submitting your own original work and correctly citing all sources, including from technologies like AI.

You must also understand what is legitimate cooperation and what is improper collusion.

Breaches can be accidental or intentional. Key examples include:

• Recycling: Resubmitting your own past work without permission.
• Plagiarism: Using others' work (text, images, ideas) without proper acknowledgement.
• Collusion: Improperly collaborating on individual tasks or assisting another student to obtain an academic advantage by dishonest or unfair means.
• Contract cheating: Having someone else complete your assessment, including submitting AI-generated content without acknowledgement or permission.
• Exam cheating: Any dishonest act in an exam.
• Fabrication: of data, information, images, or sources.
• Inappropriate technology use: Using tools like AI in ways not permitted or without citation.
• Unauthorised sharing: Sharing any of the following without permission:
  • course materials
  • assessment questions, content, or answers
  • personal information
  • other students’ work
  • anyone else's intellectual property

Breaches are categorised as minor, major, or student misconduct.

• Minor breaches, such as small referencing errors, require mandatory development activities and are given small penalties.
• Major breaches, such as repeated minor issues, or plagiarism, lead to formal investigations and more severe penalties.
• Student misconduct, such as contract cheating or extensive plagiarism, is referred for more serious disciplinary action. You have rights throughout this process, including the option of having a support person present.