REQUIRED AGREEMENT - Academic Honesty

The online course format allows for multiple methods of identity verification, collusion, collaboration and plagiarism monitoring and detection.  A violation of the course policy may include (but is not limited to) the following:

• Providing your UT EID to any other person;
• Sharing information with another person on any quiz, assessment or assignment, before, during and/or after any quiz, assessment or assignment unless it is specified in writing that collaboration is permitted; simply sharing answers is never permitted.
• Recording any quiz, assessment or assignment material in any format;
• The public (such that it can be viewed by more than one person) posting of any form of a test bank or group of questions from any assignment;
• Consulting forbidden materials or sources of information, including online translators.  Online translators may be used only in two ways:  1.) To look up single words on some assignments (where explicitly permitted) as though you were using an actual dictionary.  2.) To translate emails or logistical information supplied by your instructor in Spanish if you don't understand it fully.  This is not permitted for coursework; just for course communications. 

The University of Texas at Austin Academic Integrity Principles call for students to avoid engaging in any form of academic dishonesty on behalf of yourself or another student.  

http://deanofstudents.utexas.edu/sjs/acint_student.php  (Links to an external site.)

Grade-related penalties are routinely assessed (including "F" in the course), but students can also be suspended or even permanently expelled from the University for scholastic dishonesty. 

http://deanofstudents.utexas.edu/sjs/acadint_conseq.php (Links to an external site.)

Academic Integrity in This Online Course

Online courses require means of supporting Academic Integrity that differ from traditional courses in order to ensure fairness to all students. This course uses a new software system intended to automatically detect behavior that violates the course rules – for example, collaborating on a quiz or any graded work with another student in any way not consistent with the syllabus and UT-Austin Academic Integrity Principles. As part of this effort, our system will occasionally result in students receiving email notifications if any problematic behaviors are detected. These notifications are intended mainly to remind students of the course code of conduct, and carry no automatic implications for a student or for his or her grade in this course. If you receive such an email, it does NOT mean that you are under any suspicion – it is an indication that the system has flagged a particular behavior or set of behaviors. We will only investigate cases where our system determines that there is considerable evidence that the code of conduct is not being followed. 

You are required to check the acknowledgement box below to proceed in the class.