Plagiarism Policy

Plagiarism is the practice of representing someone else's work or ideas as one's own.

It is a dishonest practice and is damaging to a student’s knowledge and skill development.

The sharing of school work--especially after having been marked by your teacher--to other students for the purposes of submitting plagiarized work (either paraphrasing or directly copying student work) is dishonest. This sharing goes against the Alberta School Act’s expectation of students to respect school rules and cooperate with how schools offer education to their students.

If a student is currently enrolled in any online course and found to be sharing school work, whether from their current course/or another, to others:

• First Incident - The student is informed that their work has been submitted as plagiarized work by another student; a warning is provided that further submissions of such work, from any course, will be grounds for removal from the current course(s).

• Second Incidence - The student is removed from all active online courses.

If the student is not currently enrolled in the course and found to be sharing school work with others, they are informed that their work has been submitted as plagiarized work by another student and, as such, further registrations in any online course will not be permitted. The incident will be recorded on the student's file.