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.

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

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Plagiarism is copying or using ideas or words (from another person, an online classmate, or an Internet or print source) and presenting them as your own.

Some examples of plagiarism:

• Buying a paper from a research service or term paper mill.

• Turning in another student's work without that student's knowledge.

• Turning in a paper a peer has written for the student.

• Copying a paper from a source text without proper acknowledgment.

• Copying materials from a source text, supplying proper documentation, but leaving out quotation marks.

• Paraphrasing materials from a source text without appropriate documentation.

• With the Internet, another type of plagiarism needs to be listed: Turning in a paper from a "free term paper" website.

Florida Virtual School takes the integrity and authenticity of student work very seriously. Do not cut, copy, or plagiarize internet content or the work of your online classmates. FLVS instructors utilize technologies to check for authenticity. Copying, knowingly allowing others to copy from you, and/or misusing the internet content could result in removal from your course. Academic integrity is the cornerstone of learning at FLVS. Because of its preeminence in all our instruction, there are a variety of tools that we use in ensuring the integrity of student work.

Among these tools are:

1. Plagiarism Detection Tool
   This internet tool compares student work against a variety of databases. The FLVS Learning Management System is now integrated with Turnitin.com and most work is automatically uploaded to the system. This database compares students’ work against other students’ work, as well as work found on the internet.

2. Academic Integrity Database
   FLVS maintains its own database of student integrity incidents. This database is used to monitor the number of student integrity issues.

3. Teacher Expertise
   FLVS instructors have extensive classroom experience. Their expertise is often a guide in identifying the level of originality in student work.

4. Discussion-based Assessments
   As a means of ensuring comprehension and integrity, each course contains built-in assignments that are designated to be completed verbally during a discussion between a teacher and student. A student who does not complete and pass every discussion-based assessment in the course is ineligible for course credit. Additional discussions may be conducted randomly throughout the course to assess mastery of content and authenticity of student work. To ensure integrity, it may be required that discussion-based assessments be completed using a video application.

5. Proctored Exams
   FLVS may, at its discretion, require a proctored segment exam for any student on a situational basis. Academic Integrity proctored exams must be successfully passed (grade of 59.5% or higher) on the first attempt for a student to be eligible for course credit.

6. Random Proctored Exams
   Students are randomly chosen to take a proctored segment exam. For more information, please visit http://www.flvs.net/myFLVS/student-handbook/Pages/AcademicIntegrity.aspx

7. Academic Integrity Hotline/Email
   Community members, school counselors, parents, and students can call or email to report any academic integrity related issue anonymously.

All of your written work is automatically filtered through the Turn It In system to check for similarities with other work. This means anything you type, including in the student comment sections, on exams, and uploaded documents are checked for academic integrity. This even includes the direct use of course content.

Once you submit your work, go back to your Gradebook to check your Turn It In results by clicking on your assignment and scrolling down to the questions you answered. You will see your Turn It In results, as seen below: