What is academic integrity?
At the Melbourne Institute of Higher Education, the highest standards of academic integrity are upheld. You are here at MIHE to learn and develop the necessary skills for future success. Study and work in accordance with Academic integrity will help you be prepared for a fulfilling career.
As a student, you are expected to comply with the TEQSA Academic Integrity Policy and submit your assignments to Turnitin. These policies and supporting applications have been created to promote a culture of academic integrity in learning, teaching, scholarship and research.
GOOD ACADEMIC BEHAVIOUR
- The submission of your own original work (not work written by someone else)
- The selection of quality and credible scholarly sources of information when gathering information for your assignments
- Accurate referencing (citing) of all sources of information used in your assignment including text, images, video, and data
- Adherence to copyright regulations when privately copyrighted information and resources
- Completion of exams and tests without cheating
- Contributing fairly to group assessments
- Asking for help from Melbourne Institute of Higher Education support services, teachers or lecturers
BAD ACADEMIC BEHAVIOUR
Contract Cheating: Engaging someone else to complete your work and then submitting it as your own. This includes using artificial intelligence tools to generate responses to essay and exam questions. Collusion: Unauthorised collaboration between individuals to act together in the preparation or presentation of work. Plagiarism: The use of all or part of work that is not your own without appropriate acknowledgement of the author or source. Sharing/File-sharing: to give an unfair advantage (e.g. questions and answers, or assignments) . Fabrication/Falsification Inventing or altering information to support your assessment needs. Cheating: All forms of cheating in examinations and assessment tasks (e.g. copying another person’s work or unauthorised use of phones)
Turnitin
What is Turnitin?
Turnitin is a text matching software application designed to support academic integrity and help students avoid plagiarism.
Assignments are submitted through Turnitin and are then compared to the contents of very large database. This database contains:
- works previously submitted to the academy
- billions of websites and webpages
- periodicals, journals, and publications
Instances of text flagged as similar or matching to other sources will be shown in a similarity report.
AI Generated Texts
Since the public release of AI tools, the Turnitin similarity report includes an AI writing indicator. This shows a percentage of the document that may have been generated by an AI Large Language Model. The lecturer/tutor will then interpret the results. The Turnitin company has published information on AI writing detection online.
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