Charles Sturt takes an educative approach to academic integrity. Visit the Office of Academic Quality, Standards and Integrity academic integrity page for strategies to promote academic integrity in your teaching practice.
Since July 2021, Charles Sturt’s academic integrity subject has been compulsory for all students to complete before grade release. Students who have not completed the training cannot view their grades.
The academic integrity subject is delivered via a single subject with no points weighting, visible in the student portal and supported by the Division of Learning and Teaching. This free subject will help students understand academic integrity and available support services.
This is permanently available to all active students on their LMS dashboard.
The Division of Learning and Teaching have created a staff-facing Brightspace site, Academic Integrity (Staff), which replicates the student site. All academic staff are encouraged to self-enrol in this site. Use the following instructions to enrol.
- Step 1: Go to the Brightspace Academic Integrity (Staff) page.
- Step 2: Log in with your Charles Sturt University username and password (if needed).
- Step 3: Select enrol in the course.
- Step 4: Select open course.
Educate your students about academic integrity
- A dashboard of student completion statistics is available to Charles Sturt staff.
- Review and teach skills such as summarising, paraphrasing, critical analysis, argument development, and referencing. Remind students about resources that can help them develop these skills and how this will assist them in avoiding academic misconduct.
- Encourage students to use Turnitin before submitting assignments. Please direct them to the Plagiarism Checking Software page of the student portal.
- Encourage students to complete the academic integrity subject, emphasise the importance of avoiding assignment help websites, and explain the difference between collaboration and collusion, especially where group work is required
- Students are required to agree to the academic integrity declaration when submitting their assessments in Brightspace. The same declaration applies to exams.
