Academic Integrity
Statement of Policy
Students shall uphold the principles of personal integrity in all aspects of their academic work and relationship with the Cyber Training Facility. Students are expected to use complete, accurate, specific, and truthful representations of authorship, origin of ideas, mastery of material, and data. Students are likewise expected to access and use only those materials for which such access and use is authorized during enrollment. Students also have an ethical obligation to report academic integrity infractions of which they are aware.
The Cyber Training Facility has the right to determine the originality and authenticity of a student's academic work. Reports by a designated service may be used as evidence in an Cyber Training Facilty investigation of academic integrity policy infractions and in support of disciplinary action(s). The spirit and intent of this policy is to support student success and a culture of learning excellence.
Definitions
Plagiarism:
- Representing the work of another as one's own is considered plagiarism. The work might include words, images, thoughts, or ideas. The source might be another student, author, website, media in all forms, or course content.
Fabrication:
- Falsifying or inventing any information, citation, or data.
- Misrepresenting oneself or one's status in the Cyber Training Facility.
- Use of a Virtual Private Network (VPN) to misrepresent or mask an IP address.
Cheating:
- Use of technology or other materials during examinations or quizzes, except where explicitly authorized or provided.
- Attempting to communicate with others during an assessment when collaboration is not allowed.
- Communicating with unauthorized people about assessment content at any time.
- Obtaining any content from an assessment prior to its administration.
- Making any content from an assessment available to anyone not authorized to have access to it.
- Undertaking any activity to obtain, or that has the effect of obtaining, an unfair advantage over other students.
- Contract cheating (i.e., the exchange of something of value for another to do one's work, which one then represents as one's own and submits for credit).
Collusion:
- Allowing another person to do one's work, and/or impersonating a student to do his/her work.
- Hiring someone to complete coursework.
- Aiding another person in an act that violates the standards of academic integrity (i.e., providing one's own previously submitted course work to another person).
- Providing outside sources with the Cyber Training Facility's proprietary materials (i.e., providing intellectual property or answers to coursework) is a violation of the Electronic Use Policy. This includes websites that promote unauthorized sharing of training materials.
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