Academic Integrity

Our Commitment to Academic Integrity

At iUniversity Prep, academic integrity is essential to meaningful learning. Students are expected to submit work that accurately reflects their own knowledge, skills, and understanding. Academic integrity ensures that grades reflect authentic student learning and prepares students for success beyond school. Students are expected to demonstrate mastery of course content through their own work and to explain their thinking, processes, and understanding when requested.

Academic integrity violations are tracked across all courses and grade levels. Violations are cumulative and are not reset by course, subject area, or teacher. For example, a student who receives a first academic integrity offense in Math and a subsequent offense in English will be subject to second-offense consequences. This policy ensures consistency across the school and reinforces the expectation that academic honesty applies to all learning experiences, regardless of subject or teacher. All documented academic integrity violations will be maintained through campus tracking procedures and may be reviewed by teachers, counselors, administrators, and other appropriate school personnel when determining interventions and consequences.

Artificial Intelligence (AI)

iUniversity Prep recognizes that artificial intelligence (AI) tools are becoming increasingly common in education and the workplace. Teachers may permit or prohibit AI use based on the learning objectives of a specific assignment. Unless explicitly authorized by the teacher, students may not use AI-generated content to complete assignments, assessments, discussions, projects, or other coursework. If AI use is explicitly permitted, students must follow all teacher directions regarding disclosure, citation, and acceptable use.

Academic Dishonesty

Academic dishonesty includes, but is not limited to:

• Submitting AI-generated work as original student work

• Plagiarism

• Searching the internet for answers

• Copying another student's work

• Allowing another student to copy your work

• Receiving unauthorized assistance on assignments or assessments

• Presenting collaborative work as independent work

• Sharing assessment questions, answers, or secure testing materials

• Fabricating information, sources, or data

• Misrepresenting the authorship of submitted work

Demonstration of Mastery

Students are expected to demonstrate both mastery of content and evidence of their learning process. If a teacher has concerns regarding the authenticity of submitted work, the teacher may require the student to participate in an Open Office conference or other teacher-directed meeting to demonstrate mastery of the content and explain their work.

The determination that a student has violated academic integrity expectations shall be based on the teacher's professional judgment, taking into consideration submitted work, originality reports, student explanations, timestamps of submissions, and other relevant evidence. A teacher's professional judgment is sufficient to determine whether academic integrity has been violated.

Review of AI and Academic Integrity Concerns

AI-Flagged Assignments

When an assignment is flagged for potential AI use, plagiarism, or other academic integrity concerns, a temporary grade of 3% will be entered in the gradebook while the concern is being reviewed. The student will be invited to attend a conference with the teacher to discuss the assignment, demonstrate understanding of the content, and provide evidence of their work process. The temporary grade will remain in place until the review process is completed and the teacher has made a determination. If the concern is resolved and the work is determined to be authentic, the assignment will be graded according to the student's demonstrated performance. If an academic integrity violation is determined to have occurred, consequences will be assigned in accordance with the Academic Integrity policy.

Academic Integrity Consequences

All academic integrity violations will be documented and tracked in accordance with campus procedures. Academic integrity offenses accumulate across all courses and school-sponsored academic activities during the school year. Depending on the severity of the offense, students will be placed on academic probation, and their grades will be determined by probation requirements. 

First Offense

• The teacher will notify the Parent/Learning Coach.

• The student may complete a replacement assignment or a reassessment. In most cases, the replacement assignment will be more rigorous than the original. 

• The incident will be documented in accordance with campus procedures.

Second Offense

• The teacher will notify the Parent/Learning Coach.

• The student will receive a maximum grade of 50% on the assignment, and a replacement assignment will be given. 

• The student and Learning Coach must complete the Academic Integrity Remediation paperwork.

• Student access to Canvas may be temporarily restricted until the required remediation paperwork is completed.

• The incident will be documented in accordance with campus procedures.

Third Offense and Beyond

• Parent/Learning Coach will be notified by a campus administrator. 

• The student will receive a grade of 0% on the assignment.

• The student will be referred to the Dean's Office for Academic Probation review.

• Additional interventions and academic restrictions may be assigned at the discretion of campus administration. Repeated offenses may result in dismissal from iUniversity Prep. 

• The incident will be documented in accordance with campus procedures.

• Repeated offenses may result in dismissal from iUniversity Prep. 

Advanced, Accelerated, Dual, and AP Coursework

Students enrolled in advanced, accelerated, dual credit, or Advanced Placement (AP) courses are expected to uphold the highest standards of academic integrity. Repeated violations of academic integrity expectations may result in a review of a student's placement in advanced coursework. Students who demonstrate a pattern of AI misuse, plagiarism, or other forms of academic dishonesty may be recommended for removal from Advanced, Honors, Dual Credit, or AP courses and placement into a more appropriate instructional setting.

Shared Responsibility

Maintaining academic integrity is a shared responsibility among students, Learning Coaches, teachers, and administrators. By enrolling at iUniversity Prep, students and Learning Coaches acknowledge their commitment to honest academic practices and understand that academic integrity violations will result in consequences designed to protect the value and credibility of student learning.

Remediation will be determined by deans and teachers for students involved in multiple instances of AI use. Required conference with the student, teachers, dean, principal, and learning coaches.