Cheating
Cheating is generally defined as obtaining or creating an unfair advantage in any assignment or examination through the use of unauthorized aid whether given or received. Cheating includes, but is not limited to, the following examples:
- Use of external assistance on any in-class or take-home examinations without the faculty member’s specific authorization. This prohibition includes, but is not limited to, the unauthorized use of tutors, books, notes, calculators, databases, software or computers.
- Use of another person as a substitute or surrogate in the taking of an examination or quiz.
- Theft of examinations or other course materials.
- Use or allowance of others to conduct research or to prepare any work for a student without advanced authorization from the faculty member to whom the work is being submitted. Under this prohibition, a student must not make any unauthorized use of materials obtained from commercial term paper companies or files of papers prepared by other persons.
- Submission of a written report or project which is represented explicitly or implicitly as the student’s individual work when such work was produced in collaboration with one or more other persons.
- Use of any unauthorized assistance in a laboratory, at a computer terminal or on field work.
- Work on an examination other than during the time or at a location authorized by the examiner.
- Submission of work for credit, when the same work has been or will be used for credit in another course, without the consent of both instructors.
- Alteration of a grade or score in any way.
- Giving or receiving answers on an assignment, quiz, or examination after the examination. This particularly applies to students that are in different sections of the same class.