Academic Honesty:
Academic honesty is expected of all students. Work submitted for assessment as your own work must be your own, and materials taken from any other sources must be clearly identified and referenced. Intentional falsification of data, plagiarism, copying from others in class, obtaining information about exams and other violations of academic honesty are not acceptable.
Plagiarism, which is the practice of taking the writings or ideas of another and presenting them as your own, is the most common violation.
Students should be aware of the forms that plagiarism can take. Any of the following, without reference or acknowledgement of the original source, can be considered as plagiarism violations:
- Direct duplication, by copying (or allowing to be copied) another person's work, from a book, article, web site, another student's assignment etc.
- Paraphrasing of another person's work closely, making only minor changes to the wording but with the essential meaning, form or progression of ideas maintained
- Piecing together sections of the others' work into a new whole
- Sharing your work with another student
The usual consequences for academic dishonesty the first time are:
- Contact with parent or guardian
- An opportunity to redo the assignment
If it occurs a second time, the usual consequence is:
- Contact with guidance counsellor and or/assistant principal
- Failure on the assignment
The circumstances and evidence in each case are reviewed by the instructor, student, parents and CBe-learn administrators. Consequences in each case are at the discretion of the school staff.
Note: Student work may be screened electronically to identify plagiarism from all internet sources and other student work previously submitted to CBe-learn.