This page contains a collection of resources. Step-by-step guides, checklists, and guidelines. Click the links below to see a description for each item.
Best Practices for Academic Integrity
Academic Honesty Tools and When To Use Them
Canvas Academic Honesty Module
How to Add Honesty Statement to Exams
Enhancing Multiple Choice Exams
This short document covers some of the best practices for encouraging academic integrity in your classroom. Good communication strategies and design practices can go a long way!
Follow these steps to add additional layers of security to your course! Some of the best techniques to keep your students behaving honestly are simple steps that only require good preparation.
The four primary tools we use are exam settings in Canvas, Respondus Lockdown Browser, Respondus Lockdown Monitor, and Turnitin. This document explains when it is appropriate to use each tool and links to pages with more information on how to implement these tools in your courses.
This is a pre-built Canvas module that covers academic integrity in-depth for both instructors and students. For instructors, it answers questions such as "Why do people cheat" and gives advice on how to build written assignments and tests.
For students, it describes what academic integrity is and the consequences of being dishonest. It gives clear definitions of plagiarism and cheating and gives advice for completing writing assignments or online tests.
You can use this module as a whole or pick and choose which pages you might want to use in your course. If you need assistance importing the module into your course, contact CITE@nku.edu
You can join the course here:
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This document covers a step-by-step process to adding an academic honesty statement to your exams. Adding this reminder can be helpful to students who don't know your expectations and ensure that there is no confusion about what is and isn't allowed.
Here you'll find some tips on reworking your multiple choice exams to reduce the impact and frequency of cheating. Multiple choice exams have been a staple for decades, but modern technology makes them vulnerable to dishonest behavior. Reworking your questions for the modern age can secure your questions against a simple google search and encourage deeper learning by your students.
A quick exam checklist to ensure your exam is ready to go! This ensures that students can't see (and share) correct answers, have an appropriate time limit, and that your answers are shuffled.
Copyright can be a confusing and nuanced topic. When we share material online we have to ensure that we have permission to do so. You can access the Copyright 101 webpage here and it will give you a brief rundown on the importance of copyright and what you can and cannot do with licensed works.
The common syllabus template can be found by clicking here. This document contains several sections that you can use in your own personalized syllabus, including information on academic misconduct.
