Academic Integrity in the E-Learning Environment

Academic integrity is a fundamental pillar of academia. Academic integrity in its comprehensive concept deals with addressing scientific plagiarism, cheating, scientific fabrication, obtaining an academic advantage without right, aiding and abetting academic dishonesty, unauthorized access to academic and administrative official documents, and violation of intellectual property rights. The Deanship of E-Learning and Distance Education contributes to respecting and achieving academic integrity through the principles and principles of dealing with educational content in a way that guarantees intellectual property rights when designing, developing and publishing all digital educational materials and digital content of all kinds on the website or on e-learning systems. Therefore, it is a basic principle for e-learning systems in providing e-learning and distance education programs at the Water Academy.

Mechanisms for Achieving Academic Integrity

The Information Technology Department, in cooperation with e-learning officials, spreads the culture of academic integrity in e-learning environments among the beneficiaries of trainees and trainers.

The Information Technology Department, in cooperation with e-learning officials, achieves the principles of academic integrity in e-learning environments in cooperation with trainers to ensure the integrity of the work submitted from assignments, tests and research.

The trainee is required to have all the work provided during the educational process as original works.

The identity of the trainee is verified at the Academy in cooperation with the Information Technology Department and the verification is periodic.

Forms of violation of Academic Integrity

There are many forms of conduct that violate the standards and principles of academic integrity, including, but not limited to

Cheating: Transfer of the work of others and the unauthorized use of any notes, information and materials in academic examinations or other tasks assigned to trainees.

- Plagiarism: quoting the phrases and works of others, and unauthorized use of intellectual and literary blogs or any information in any training costs, without referring to them as a reference. - Stealing the efforts of others: the trainee's exploitation of another trainee to accomplish training costs.

Impersonation: The trainee claims to be another in a virtual classroom, in a test, in training forums, or in any kind of academic assignment.

Forgery: The trainee changing or misleading the information available to him in an academic test/assignment or presenting false documents about the performance of academic costs.