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Today’s PresenterGina DysonAssociate DirectorStudent Affairs and Academic Integrity

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Objectives

• Best Practices• Academic Integrity Policy• Using Turnitin for Discussions DEMO• Evaluating an Originality Report• Academic Integrity Inquiry Process• Resources

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Demystify Academic Integrity

• Encourage completion of our Academic Integrity Tutorial located at the Writing Center http://writingcenter.waldenu.edu/809.htm

• Encourage use of Turnitin Drafts– 6 drafts in the classroom– Unlimited drafts at the Writing Center

• Classroom announcement/email– Encourage citing, paraphrasing and synthesizing

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Academic Integrity Policy

Discussions• Examine one week’s worth of main posts.

– Submit and examine any individual posts throughout the course that look concerning

Applications: • Examine a sampling of originality reports

based on course lengthEspecially concerning reports should be included

in your random sample• Doc Studies: Google or Dogpile can help too

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Using Turnitin for Discussions DEMO

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Evaluating an Originality Report• References, quotes and 1% matches should already

be excluded• What’s left?– Common phrases– Content that has been borrowed and not

paraphrased/synthesized

• Matches to previously submitted papers– From Laureate/Walden– From another university

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Academic Integrity Inquiry Process

• Understand your program’s expectations around teachable moments and internal warnings

• Once you need to make something formal, send an academic integrity inquiry letter– Email Subject: Academic Integrity Inquiry– Copy your Program Director or their academic integrity designee– Do not copy Code of Conduct (COC)

• Your PD/designee will work with you to decide sanctions and will send a formal Findings letter. You and COC will be copied

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Resources and Links

• Academic Integrity Inquiry Template: available in eCampus• Academic Integrity Tutorial:

– Faculty can access the module in ELMS– Students can access the module at the Writing Center:

http://writingcenter.waldenu.edu/Documents/Scholarly-Writing/Academic_Integrity_Student_04.24.13.swf

• For Turnitin technical support: • Faculty may contact the Student Support Team: 1-877-

780-9954, option 1 or Turnitin directly (please do not give this number to students): 1-866-816-5046 x241.

• Students can contact the Student Support Team for technical assistance: 1-800-WALDENU.

• Gina.dyson@waldenu.edu

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Q & A