Students also use their computing accounts to access enterprise applications, such as Microsoft 365. The files created in these apps are uploaded into the Learning Management System and associated with their user ID, course, and relevant assignment for grading by the course instructor. Students are required to use the University computing account to communicate with faculty, staff, and classmates. This involves email communication through the LMS, Microsoft Outlook, and Microsoft Teams. Likewise, the administrators, faculty, and staff communicate with students using an official email address.
Academic Integrity is a fundamental value of Kentucky State University's community of students, faculty, and staff. The University wishes to promote the highest and most honorable pursuit of intellectual achievement and emphasize the importance of in acts of academic dishonesty may be subject to sanctions. Any student who knowingly assists in any form of academic dishonesty may also be subject to sanctions. Academic dishonesty can occur in several forms, some of which include cheating, plagiarism, and forgery. Each student is responsible for understanding the definitions of cheating, plagiarism, and forgery. The definitions are presented here and/or can be found in the KYSU Online Academic Code of Conduct, which describes the processes for the investigation and determination of academic dishonesty or misconduct.
Cheating is the fraudulent or deceptive taking, giving, or presenting of any information or material with the intent of aiding oneself or another on any academic work that is considered in the determination of a course grade.
Forgery is falsely recording the signature of an advisor, instructor, or any University official on any official University academic document.
Plagiarism is the intentional or unintentional act of submitting the work of another as one's own. If a student has any uncertainty regarding plagiarism in the submission of any class material, he or she should discuss the matter with the instructor prior to submission of the material.
Examples of plagiarism include: submission of the complete or partial work, or of the words, ideas, or format of another, published or unpublished, without appropriate reference and source credit; and employing or permitting another person to produce, alter, or revise material that the student submits as his or her own work.
The policy, Use Of University's World Wide Web/Internet – Students, says it is a violation for students to – “Whether by email or other Internet resources with a login account assigned to someone else. Forgery or attempted forgery of email messages is prohibited.”8
7 https://www.kysu.edu/documents/information-technology/Security_Policy.pdf
8 https://www.kysu.edu/documents/information-technology/IT-IM-07
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