WEEK 5
STRUCTURED ENGLISH FOR ACADEMIC MISCONDUCT:
Students Submission for Assignment.
1. Raising an incident:
a. A report of academic misconduct from a person(That may be assignment marker, exam invigilator or some other person will observe evidence of academic misconduct)
b. A report taken from a copy detection program.
c. After receving the either report of Academic misconduct.
d. Then lecturer or Course Coordinator should complete paper based student form by evidence to support the suspicion.
2. Recording the incident:
a. Form is sent via internal mail.
b. This mail is received by concern plagiarism officer.
c. Then they refer cqu student details for contact.
d. Student details and acdemic miscondut details are sent to spreadsheet.
e. So that, all plagiarism officers can share via network.
3. Assigning the offence level:
a. After seeing the details on spreadsheet defines level of plagiarsm as
b. If in level 1 (the student has no previous offences) he/ she is going to loose the marks for the section that is copied.
Else
c. If in level 2 (the student has been found guilty of one offence) automatically a failure in the course is given. Else
d. If in leve3 (the student has been found guilty of two offences) student is sent to CQU exclusion committee.
e. After defining a level of plagiarism then the spreadsheet is updated.
g. This Spreadsheet is sent to course coordinator who is now responsible for deciding on the penalty.
4. Deciding on the penalty
a. Incase of level 1 the penalty is decided on the basis of percentage of the work copied and is assumed with the assignment marks and is deducted from it.
b. In case of level 2 or level 3 course coordinator can decide the misconduct not worthy of penalty and just issue them with a warning or even the decision is some times left to the teaching staff.
c. Course coordinator Writes another form with the indication of penalty applied which is received from plagiarism officer and returns to him after the indications.
5. Applying the penalty involves two steps
a.Letter to the student by informing academic misconduct.
b.Returning the assignment when the above process has been happening the student’s assignment or exam has been suspended until the outcome has been decided.
The spread is again updated as penalty is applied by plagiarism officers.
6. Handling Appeals
a. Students appeal for the decision to penalize them for the academic misconduct.
b. Teaching staff considers the appeal and inform the student
c. if there is no change.
Else
The coordinator requires filling a new form with the details of original d. Incident and send it to the plagiarism officer.
7. Final report is generated.