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Student Learning and Academic Integrity
Student Learning and Academic Integrity
The college values academic integrity as an essential component of academic excellence. Students are expected to be truthful and ethical in pursuing their learning and demonstrating their knowledge and skills. Commitment to academic integrity is the responsibility of every student, as well as every faculty and staff member at Sacramento City College.
The college community at SCC has the responsibility to make every effort to foster honest academic conduct in the development of its students. Faculty are committed to clearly stating well defined standards that help clarify academic and learning expectations, and specify behavioral manifestations of such expectations in our classrooms, laboratories, co-curricular, and on-line settings.
Defining Academic Dishonesty
Defining Academic Dishonesty
Academic dishonesty defrauds all parties who depend upon the integrity of the college, its courses and its degrees and its certificates. Academic dishonesty is an act of deception in which the student claims credit for work or effort of another person or uses unauthorized materials or fabricated information in any academic work. It occurs when students fraudulently attempt to show possession of a level of knowledge or skill that they do not possess.
What You Need to Know About Cheating & Plagiarism
What You Need to Know About Cheating & Plagiarism
Academic dishonesty is a violation of the SCC “Student Standard of Conduct” and will not be tolerated. It diminishes the quality of the scholarship at the college and hurts the majority of students who conduct themselves earnestly and honestly.
Ignorance of these academic and behavioral standards will not absolve any student from being held responsible for them or from any disciplinary action that may result from their actions. The two most common examples of academic dishonesty are 1) cheating; and 2) plagiarism.
Cheating
Cheating
Cheating is the act of obtaining or attempting to obtain credit for academic work through the use of dishonest, deceptive, or fraudulent means. Cheating includes the following:
Copying from someone else's test.
Submitting work that is not your own.
Submitting work presented previously in another course, if contrary to the rules of either course.
Altering or interfering with grading.
Using material during an exam that is not allowed.
Consulting with someone other than the instructor during an exam.
Committing other acts that defraud or misrepresent.
Plagiarism
Plagiarism
Plagiarism is representing the work of someone else as your own and submitting it for any purpose. Plagiarism includes the following:
Incorporating the ideas, works, sentences, paragraphs, or parts of another person's writings, without giving appropriate credit, and representing the product as your own work.
Representing another's artistic/scholarly work as your own.
Submitting a paper purchased from a research or term paper service.
Other Examples of Academic Dishonesty:
Other Examples of Academic Dishonesty:
Forging signatures on Add/Drop slips or altering other college documents.
Stealing examinations, tests, quizzes, or scoring key for tests.
Removal of class exams or class assignment projects without instructor approval.
Altering graded work after it has been returned from the instructor and resubmitting without instructor knowledge or approval.
Having any other person or student submit academic work in your name.
Giving your academic work to another student to plagiarize.
Purposely sharing your paperwork with another student to copy for a test or an assignment especially when it is not a group project or group response to a test.
Taking a quiz or examination for another person.
Lying to an instructor or to a college official to improve your grade.
Accessing the college computer system to change your grades or those of other students.
Note: These lists are merely illustrative of the types of conduct that will not be tolerated. They should in no sense be considered an exhaustive list of prohibited conduct.
Disciplinary Consequences
Disciplinary Consequences
Depending on the seriousness of the infraction, students may incur the following consequences:
Receive a failing grade on the test or paper.
Have a course grade lowered.
Be placed on disciplinary probation or suspension.
Be expelled.
Copyright and Fair Use
Copyright and Fair Use
Academic work, especially criticism and research, involves using the work of other writers, researchers, and artists. Students need to know they are allowed to use this material, so long as they supply attribution. The Sacramento City College Library has resources that will help you avoid plagiarism and cite sources properly. In addition, if you use the work of any other writer, researcher, or artist, even an image from the internet, you need to provide attribution and ensure you are modeling fair use. Refer to the Creative Commons website and the Creative Commons page on attribution for further information.
While many of the following could be redundant it is still worth emphasizing.
Participation and Attendance
Participation and Attendance
In this asynchronous online course, participation is mainly determined by your reading/watching content, taking quizzes/exams, and class activities on time. This 4 unit course requires approximately 36 hours per week of work. The course is 6 weeks, so more time each week is needed to complete the work. It’s important to check in a few times a week and stay current with your assignments and discussions. Your instructor is available to answer questions, so do not hesitate to reach out for support along the way.
Course Drop Policy
Course Drop Policy
During the first week of this course, you are required to participate or you may be dropped from the course. Please complete all the assignments in the Orientation and Family Building Module.
These activities are very important so you won't be dropped from the course for non-participation during this first week. If you have any challenges with these tasks during the first week, please notify me as soon as possible so we can get you started! My email is michelle.poliseno@losrios.edu
Throughout the semester, I will review your participation and assignments. If you have not participated or logged in within the previous 3 days, you can be dropped from the course. A student may be dropped from any class when that student's absences exceed six percent (6%) of the total hours of class time. Please notify me if you have any challenges as soon as possible. If you feel you can no longer participate and complete the course, I suggest talking to a counselor to discuss options.
Please refer to the Los Rios Academic Calendar for specific course refund, drop, and withdrawal/“W” deadlines. If you don’t drop the course before the end of the course, you will, unfortunately, earn a failing grade for the course. After the final withdrawal deadline, you will receive a grade regardless of whether you completed the work or not, potentially resulting in a failing grade on your permanent academic record.
Course Grading Policy
Course Grading Policy
Assessments % Total Grade
Read and Quizzes 15%
Module Checks 15%
Unit Checks 10%
Activities 10%
Demonstrations of Knowledge 30%
Celebration of Learning 20%
Total Points 100%
A = 100 - 90%
B = 89 - 80%
C = 79 - 70%
D = 69 - 60%
F = 59 - 0%
Some low scores for assignments in Read and Quizzes, Module Checks, Unit Checks, and Activities will be dropped. You will see them as "greyed out" in your grade book.
There is more to a grade than just the percentage.
There is more to a grade than just the percentage.
Each day is an opportunity to learn. Just because you do not understand a concept the first time do not give up. There will be opportunities throughout the semester to demonstrate and show off all you have learned.
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