Copying
Copying聽is where a student acts in such a way as to seek to gain unfair advantage or assist another student to do so.
Copying can include:聽
- submitting an assessment task which the student has copied from another person
- submitting the same, or a substantially similar, piece of work for assessment in two different courses (except in accordance with approved study and assessment schemes)
- completing an assessment task outside the conditions specified for that task
In copying both the student who copies work and the student who originally shared it can be found to have breached the academic integrity policy. When a student shares an assessment task with another student it could give that student an unfair advantage over other students, even if they didn鈥檛 realise that the student would copy the assessment directly. Copying is different to collusion because the two people involved did not work together.
Case Study (from Semester 1 2020)
Reece (not his real name) is enrolled in a second year course which has written assignment. Reece finishes his assignment early and shares it with some friends who haven鈥檛 finished their assignment yet to help them get ideas for how to do their own assignments.
Tamara (not her real name) is also enrolled in the course. She is really struggling with the assignment. One of her friends tells her she has a copy of a completed assignment that Tamara can look which might help. She forwards the assignment to Tamara via email. Tamara is running