We encourage teaching staff to include a statement relating to academic integrity in all assessments. The following example can be adapted to best suit your needs.
As a member of the University’s student body, I will complete this assessment in a fair, honest, responsible and trustworthy manner.
This means that:
- I will not seek out any unauthorised help in completing this assessment. Please note: unauthorised help includes seeking assistance or advice from anyone, using a tutorial or answer service whether in person or online, asking fellow students, friends or family, etc.
- I will not discuss or share the content of the assessment with anyone else in any form, including but not limited to, Canvas, Piazza, Chegg, Facebook, Twitter, Discord, Messenger or any other social media platform or messaging service within the assessment window.
- I will not reproduce and/or share the content of this assessment in any domain or in any form where it may be accessed by a third party.
- I am aware the University of Auckland may use Turnitin or any other plagiarism detecting methods to check my content.
- I declare that this assessment is my own work, except where acknowledged appropriately (e.g., use of referencing). Please note: It is not appropriate (and will be considered plagiarism) to reproduce or copy material provided by your teachers, including lecture slides, lecture notes and/or course readings in your exam. All content must be written in your own words and referenced appropriately. If quoting a source, quotations must be used and referenced appropriately.
- I declare that this work has not been submitted for academic credit in this course or another University of Auckland course, or elsewhere.
- I declare that I generated the calculations and data in this assessment independently, using only the tools and resources defined for use in this assessment.
- I declare that I composed the writing and/or translations in this assessment independently, using on the tools and resources defined for use in this assessment.
I understand the University expects all students to complete coursework with integrity and honesty.
I promise to complete all online assessment with the same academic integrity standards and values.
Any breach of this statement or identified academic misconduct will be followed up and may result in disciplinary action.
Incorporate the academic honesty declaration into assessments
Choose an option from the table below that suits you, then expand the option heading for instructions.
| Feature | Option 1 | Option 2 | Option 3 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ease of implementation | Easiest | Straightforward | Moderate |
| The declaration can be edited to suit my requirements | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Records student responses to the declaration | No | Yes | Yes |
| Can be set as compulsory | No | No | Yes |
Option 1: Incorporate the Academic Honesty Declaration in the Canvas Assignment instructions
Include the Academic Honesty Declaration with the instructions in your Canvas assignment. Please note however, that this option will not allow you to set up the Declaration as a required or compulsory activity (Use Option 3 to set up the Declaration as a required or compulsory activity).
Option 2: Incorporate the Academic Honesty Declaration as a 'Text (no question)' Canvas Quiz question
Include the Academic Honesty Declaration as the first question of the quiz you have set up using the Text (no question) question type. Please note however, that this option will not allow you to set up the declaration as a required or compulsory activity.
- Select +New question in the edit mode of your quiz. This should be your first quiz question.
- Select the Text (no question) question type. Change “question” into “Academic Honesty Declaration” and copy/paste the Declaration into the text box.
- Click on Update question to save the Declaration before you go on to add your quiz questions.
Option 3: Incorporate the Academic Honesty Declaration as a 'Multiple choice' Canvas Quiz question
Include the Academic Honesty Declaration as the first question of the quiz you have set up using the Multiple choice question type. This option also will not allow you to set up the declaration as a required or compulsory activity, i.e. students will be able to move on to other questions even if they choose “Disagree”.
- Select +New question in the edit mode of your quiz. This should be your first quiz question.
- Select the Multiple choice question type.
- Change the heading “Question” to Academic Honesty Declaration and copy/type the Academic Honesty Declaration into the question. Set pts to 0, so as not to allocate any points for answering the declaration.
- Enter Agree in the Correct answer box and click on the trash icon to delete other Possible answer boxes.
- Click on Update question to save it.
- To check if it works go to Student view.
See also
Academic integrity guidelines for course design
Techniques for weaving academic integrity awareness into course and assessment design.
Academic integrity checklist
A quick run through of academic integrity considerations for your course.