Encouraging Academic Honesty

• Explain to students your expectations regarding academic honesty and proper recognition of sources.
• Offer information about how to properly reference materials.  Suggest university support structures to help students learn how to reference.
• Establish the importance of recognising colleagues efforts, and allowing all group members equal opportunities to contribute.
• Establish ground rules for involvement in groups.  Provide examples of acceptable and unacceptable behaviours within groups, and between groups.
• Discuss etiquette for group involvement with respect to the sharing of information, and the need to establish an agreed code of conduct within a group

See also Plagiarism and the Safe Assignment Tool students can access via the Blackboard Academic Honesty Module.