Documentation:Distance Learning Support/Plagiarism

Plagiarism

Most often, plagiarism arises out of misinformation, lack of good judgement or complete lack of awareness about what it is. For this reason, students need information and resources as much as they need information about policies and consequences related to academic misconduct.

If you suspect a student of plagiarism, you will want to know about:

• the resources available to you.
• the resources available for students.
• UBC's policy and process for dealing with plagiarism

Your Resources

• Reducing Plagiarism - UBC's VP Academic

Guidelines, links to policy docs, and reference material for faculty. Also the site for information about Turn-It-In, the online plagiarism detection system adopted by UBC.

• Plagiarism Resource Centre for Faculty UBC Library.
• Faculty of Arts: Academic Integrity
• Faculty of Science Guidelines

Resources for Students

• Plagiarism Resource Centre for Students UBC Library.
• UBC's Learning Commons
• Academic Integrity: Online Tutorial UBC's Chapman Learning Commons

UBC Policy

• UBC Regulation on Plagiarism
• UBC Calendar Explains what is required of the instructor in cases of suspected plagiarism. Also includes extensive information about policies, processes and appeals).

TurnitIn

Instructors of distance education courses, as in on campus courses, may want to use the plagiarism detection service, subscribed to by UBC, called TurnItIn

Guidelines for Instructors are posted on the UBC site for the Provost and VP Academic.

For more information, please visit the Turnitin section of the eLearning Toolkit at http://www.elearning.ubc.ca/toolkit/turnitin-2/.