The Centre for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning

Academic integrity

Academic integrity is the commitment to upholding the values of honesty, trust, fairness, respect, responsibility and courage in all scholarly activities (International Center for Academic Integrity (ICAI), 2013).

At the University of Manitoba, we believe strongly that academic integrity is everyone’s responsibility.

What we offer

We offer academic integrity supports to instructors in the form of workshops, teaching tips and learning resources.

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Academic integrity

Promoting academic integrity

When we create and implement learning activities that encourage deep learning (Gonyea, Anderson, Paine, Anson, and Carolina, 2009), students will invest in their education and have fewer reasons to cheat (Lang, 2013). On this page, you will find various strategies to help you to promote academic integrity in your teaching and learning environments.

Promoting academic integrity online

Promoting integrity in online classrooms during the COVID-19 pandemic is very similar to promoting integrity in in-person learning. This page contains information to help you promote integrity while providing remote learning.

Preventing plagiarism

Small changes to the learning environment have the potential to make a big impact. Revamping an entire course all at once can be a daunting task. A good place to start is to make bite-size changes to a few assignments and other assessment opportunities.

Preventing cheating

Cheating on quizzes, tests or final examinations is a serious type of academic misconduct. Fortunately, there are several strategies you can use to help students avoid making poor decisions.

Reporting academic misconduct

Students are more likely to embrace academic integrity when they believe their instructors are honest, fair, respectful, trustworthy and responsible – the very same qualities that we expect of our students.

Christensen Hughes and McCabe, 2006

Understanding Academic Misconduct

Outreach

We reach out to our partners on campus through the Show Your Integrity newsletter, drop-in lunch hour sessions and Knowledge Nuggets.

Show Your Integrity

Show Your Integrity is a quarterly newsletter produced by the Academic Integrity Advisory Committee (AIAC) to share announcements of upcoming events and newly created resources for promoting academic integrity.

View the latest issue of Show Your Integrity

If you have an announcement related to academic integrity and would like to share it in Show Your Integrity, please contact Brenda.Stoesz@umanitoba.ca for its inclusion in the next issue.

Lunch hour sessions

Lunch hour sessions are on hold until further notice.

When: 12 p.m. to 1 p.m.

Where: Room 223 – 65 Dafoe Road

What:

Bring your lunch and listen to faculty members share their new and innovative teaching strategies. Lunch hour teaching sessions are open to sessional instructors, instructors, librarians, pre-and tenured faculty members and graduate students.

How to register: Drop-in sessions. No registration required.

Lunch hour workshops are not eligible for credit in the GTP or TLC programs.

Knowledge Nuggets

Bite-sized resources to help students help themselves, as a collection of teaching/learning resources for promoting academic integrity and related topics (e.g., citing and referencing, finding valid sources) that has been curated within UM Learn.

These resources include content in various forms and sample learning outcomes, learning activities and quizzes. Instructors can select and import chosen resources into their own course shells and modify them to suit their specific course needs.

Interested instructors can contact Brenda Stoesz to gain access to this UM Learn course.

Email Brenda Stoesz