Resources for Faculty

York University offers a toolkit to help faculty encourage academic integrity in their courses. Topics include academic essays, assignment design stategies, course design, collaborative learning, examinations, honour codes, laboratories, libraries, studio environments, copying and copyright, and turnitin.com.

The University of Saskatchewan offers resources to help faculty create tests and assignments that encourage honesty.

The Oxford Centre for Staff and Learning Development site on deterring plagiarism in higher education lists books, on-line articles, and general sites about plagiarism as well as sites that focus on teaching students about plagiarism.

"Exam Procedures: A Few Thoughts from an Ombudsperson" provides suggestions for ways instructors and teaching assistants can reduce opportunities for cheating on exams.

Resources for Students

The SFU English department offers a guide to academic honesty and proper use of sources in research and writing for English department courses. Many other departments offer similar guides, either as handouts or on the department Web site. Be sure to use the guide that is appropriate for a particular course. If in doubt, ask the professor or TA if a guide is available.

York University is pilot testing an academic integrity tutorial.

Indiana University offers a plagiarism quiz that helps students understand what is and what is not plagiarism.

The University of Saskatchewan offers resources for students to learn how to avoid plagiarism and provides guidelines for citing sources.

Pennsylvania State University offers a page on how to avoid cyber plagiarism that includes discussions of wholesale copying, cut and paste, paraphrasing, and when to cite as well as a list of other sites dealing with plagiarism.

Ohio University provides a page of resources for avoiding plagiarism that includes serveral links to Canadian universities.