UTVA makes every effort to work with all students to be successful in their courses. UTVA has designed the following policies in Academic Integrity to ensure students are making satisfactory and valid academic progress towards promotion. If students violate any of the academic integrity policies below, a plan for their success will be created by the homeroom teacher and FAST team.
The State of Utah, when issuing public funds to UTVA, does so in good faith that enrolled students are in fact making regular and appropriate academic progress. The Online School is designed to collect and record data that substantiates the academic progress of UTVA students. Students found to be falsifying attendance and/or progress (cheating) will be placed on a Success Plan.
Examples of false attendance and/or progress can be, but are not limited to:
· Entering progress and/or lesson assessments for work not actually completed.
· Not completing written work in provided K12® materials. Content teachers may ask for a scanned/typed version of written work completed by the student to check accuracy of progress.
· Progress that does not match attendance. Attendance should reflect work completed in OLS.
· Students using the Learning Coach’s account to access the OLS curriculum, lessons, assessments, unit assessments, and Email or any other OLS component.
· Student has taken the same assessment multiple times within a short time frame in order to retrieve correct answers from OLS “Review” option.
· There is a difference between work sample quality, Study Island assessments, and OLS progress. If a student is mastering a concept, he or she should be able to duplicate this mastery on work samples and/or Study Island assignments.
· Mass amounts (10 or more) of lessons being marked complete in a day with or without assessment mastery. Student is moving very quickly through lessons and mastery cannot be verified.
· Student is not completing mid-unit assessments and unit assessments before moving to the next unit.
Please note that progress and/or attendance logged under suspicious circumstances requires verification. If this cannot be verified in a timely manner, progress and/or attendance will be removed by the content teacher or designated administrator.
Students demonstrating academic concerns in any content area will be required to attend live instruction via Class Connect. Teachers will provide students with a schedule of required sessions. Students who fail to attend required Class Connect sessions will be placed on a Success Plan.
Work samples are submitted monthly to teachers and provide valuable insight about student achievement, as well as give teachers an opportunity to provide feedback and suggestions to Learning Coaches and students. Students not submitting work samples monthly will be placed on a Success Plan and their grade will be impacted.
The definition of plagiarism is: copying or imitating the language, ideas, or thoughts of another writer and passing them off as your own original work. Students who submit plagiarized work will be required to complete Plagiarism Training with their Learning Coach. Plagiarized work will not be accepted for credit and must be resubmitted. Students who submit plagiarized work may be placed on a Success Plan.
Examples of plagiarism can be, but are not limited to:
· Copying or rephrasing another student's work.
· Taking material from Internet sources and using it as your own, even if some words are changed.
· Having someone other than the student write an assignment.
· Direct or indirect reproduction of student aids, critical sources, or reference materials, in part or in whole, without citing sources.