Academic Integrity

What is Academic Integrity?

Academic integrity is a concept used to address the many facets of authenticity within a student's work. A student who upholds a high standard of academic integrity maintains that the work he or she turns in is authentic and true to the knowledge he or she has acquired.

The technology age has certainly helped people have fast access to any and all information on the web. Because of this, you will see academic integrity becoming more of a standard in educational institutions as they begin to hold students to higher accountability measures.

It is important that as you take courses online, you are equipped to appropriately utilize technology. The Internet can be a powerful research tool. The key is to know how to use it and what is appropriate.

Academic Integrity means...

• Your work on each assignment will be completely your own

• Your collaboration with another classmate on any assignment will be pre-approved by your instructor

• You will not practice plagiarism in any form

• You will not allow others to copy your work

• You will not misuse content from the Internet

Please be aware that all FLVS instructors utilize a myriad of technologies to check student work for authenticity, including but not limited to the upload of student work to TurnItIn.com. In order to maintain the integrity of all FLVS grades, instructors may choose to facilitate random oral assessments and/or face to face exams. If an instructor confirms that a student has plagiarized work in any manner, the student will be subject to consequences determined by FLVS administration and may be removed from the course with a failing grade.