Academic Integrity Tutorial

Students want to know how to maintain academic integrity, and this tutorial provides help. Expectations are different at university than in high school, and they can be different at a Canadian institution compared to past study in other countries.

Some students are taking courses where proof of completion is required or instructors are using the content of the tutorial to meet certain learning outcomes for the course. For example:

• the English department requires the tutorial for all 100 level courses;
• the Engineering program includes the tutorial as part of GE102;
• Pharmacy requires students to complete it as part of orientation; and so on.

• Some instructors want students to get the foundational knowledge about academic integrity to understand some of the specific expectations they have.

• Some instructors want students to understand how academic misconduct is handled and the serious consequences that can result.

• Some instructors want students to know about the kinds of skills that help them avoid academic misconduct and the kinds of help available at the University to build those skills.

• Many instructors want all of the above.

• Self-enroll into the tutorial using the button at the top of this page.

• Complete all three modules and pass the associated quizzes. This takes about 3 hours.

• A certificate of completion will be generated within the course. You should download it and save it somewhere that is easy for you to find again. 

• You can only get a certificate of completion once. If you take the tutorial again, it will not produce a new certificate.

• If an instructor is seeking an more updated certificate, ask if they will accept screenshots of current successful quiz completion as an alternative. 

• Follow the directions of your instructor about how to present that proof of completion. Some instructors set it up as an assignment in Canvas, and you can upload the certificate there. Check with your instructor.

You can only get the certificate of completion once. 

• If you need to show proof of completion, go back into the course and complete the quizzes again, taking a screen shot of the successful score (minimum 8/10), of each quiz and provide that to your instructor.
• You can share this webpage with instructors if they have questions about your process. 

1. Log in to the course where you completed the tutorial.
2. Click on the Grades link in the menu.
3. Arrange by Assignment Group to group the tutorial quizzes together 
4. Take a screenshot of your quiz scores
5. Be sure your name is visible within the screenshot

• Approximately three hours: There are things to read, interactive activities, videos, and practice quizzes as well as the actual module quizzes.  

Students should go to the Canvas self-enroll course, complete the tutorial (including the quizzes at the end of each module), and the course produces a certificate.

Students can then download the certificate and provide it to you as proof of completion.

You can accept that answer, or

You can ask them to go into the tutorial again, complete the three quizzes successfully and share screen shots showing that they got 8/10 or better on each quiz.

Yes, you can self-enroll and click through the modules. Be sure to use your USask email.  

• To advance modules, you need to complete the previous quiz. There are only 10 questions in each quiz, and they are the best indication of what the students are meant to learn.   

Beware: The tutorial is designed to be generally applicable to a wide range of students. It likely is not enough on its own to fully equip or inform your students adequately to follow your expectations. 

Do review the tutorial you can see what you want to tell students to pay specific attention to and you can see what is missing or needing more explanation for your assessments. 

No, that tutorial is on generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) literacy, and can be found here:

https://ai.usask.ca/ai-literacy/students.php

• Explain your reason for requiring the tutorial. It will help you do that if you have taken it yourself or at least reviewed it. 

• Indicate the importance of getting a good foundational understanding about academic integrity in order to develop the skills and habits that maintain it and thereby avoid academic misconduct. 

• Take care not to scare students about this topic. Creating fear and communicating mistrust backfires on instructors. If students become afraid to ask you questions, they often won’t and sometimes that leads to inadvertent academic misconduct that could have been easily avoided by asking you a question.   

• Consider what kinds of academic misconduct errors are commonly made by students or that you are most concerned about.

• If your concern is not specifically addressed in the tutorial, develop your own content or lesson related to that skill or issue to supplement the tutorial.

• Reinforce academic integrity expectations again later in the term. Students are most susceptible to academic misconduct when the pressure is on—they may make inadvertent errors and/or bad coping decisions and need to be reminded of their responsibilities and expectations.

• Recommend students to revisit the relevant content or the resources linked through the tutorial.

• Refer to the Faculty tab in the top navigation of this website and contact Susan Bens, Academic Integrity Strategist, for ideas for incorporating this tutorial into your instruction or learning outcomes directly.