Who me? Cheat?: An interactive academic integrity dialogue March 12, 2024

Test your knowledge of academic integrity through an interactive, scenario-based forum. Panelists will share experiences and tips while you join in the discussion about how this topic impacts you, your peers, and the larger university community.
New Scenarios:
Temptation’s Toll
Kaleigh is having difficulty getting started on a case study assignment in her business class. She googles the course number to see if there are study groups where she can chat with other students. What comes up instead are pages on Course Hero and other essay-sharing sites that show previous student assignments. They are all blurred out so she can’t see what is there. It asks her to upload an assignment to be able to see the blurred section. She is desperate, so she grabs a years-old assignment and uploads it. She plans to just peek at the case study and then delete her upload. When she looks at the case study, she realizes right away that she missed part of the assignment instructions and can get started without looking further at the coursehero one, anyway. She then goes to delete what she uploaded on coursehero, but it won’t let her. Her heart sinks as she realizes she uploaded an assignment with her name and the instructor’s feedback on it. What should Kaleigh do?
‘Twas the Night Before Citations
Brayden is writing a paper for his political science class. His professor is very clear that students can use chatgpt for brainstorming and outlining their papers, but that they must do their own writing. They must share which AI tools they used and their prompts in an “AI Use Transparency Statement.” It is late at night the night before he plans to hand it in, and Brayden realizes that he is over the word count. He decides to put a couple of paragraphs into chatgpt and ask it to condense and clarify his writing to sound academic. He then hands in his paper to his instructor but leaves out this final prompt from his transparency statement. He later gets an email from his professor saying that his citations point to sources that don’t exist and that he has committed misconduct. What’s wrong with what Brayden did?
The perfect paragraph
Faria is taking a qualitative research methods course and must explain her methodology in detail in a section of her paper. She happens to be using the same methods for this paper as from a previous course in which she similarly had to explain the methodology in her paper. She is proud of how successful her methods were last time and feels her explanation from the previous course is clear and concise. So, she reuses the paragraph in her current paper. It contains citations to the sources she uses, and it is her own original writing. Is this an academic integrity issue? If so, why?