Academic integrity - compulsory exercise

Academic integrity represents a set of values and behaviours by which members of the academic community abide. To be a trusted member of this academic community you must understand and demonstrate academic integrity in your studies and the work you produce. Such values include honesty, trust, fairness, respect and responsibility.

You are required to successfully complete the University Online Academic Integrity Tutorial. The tutorial must be completed by the deadline indicated on your assessment schedule.

You will be unable to progress to the next stage of the programme without having successfully completed the tutorial.

The module can be found on the VLE and will take you through key principles around integrity, and how to avoid things like plagiarism and collusion.

If you do not uphold the values and conventions of academic integrity, you may be subject to the University’s academic misconduct procedures.

Referencing

Referencing is a key aspect of academic writing and is used to clearly identify information and ideas that come from source materials. It is essential to acknowledge other people's ideas in this way so that you can avoid committing plagiarism.

The Harvard referencing style is used by this Department.

Please note that incorrect or non-existent referencing can constitute misconduct.

Turnitin

Turnitin is a text-matching software designed to help students integrate material into assignments correctly. All students can use Turnitin once you complete the online Turnitin tutorial on the VLE.

You can find information on how to access the Turnitin tutorials via the Academic Integrity website.

The Department of Health Sciences submits all summatively assessed work through Turnitin. It is utilised as a tool alongside academic judgement to identify instances of plagiarism, poor academic referencing and other poor academic practices.

Following the introduction of VLE Blackboard Ultra in the 2023/4 academic year, all summative written coursework must be submitted electronically. Electronic submission must be through Turnitin Feedback Studio. For each summative piece of coursework, a submission point will be set up within the module site on the VLE. 

It is the students responsibility to submit their work to the correct submission point. Clear instructions will be given  by the module team in advance of the submission deadline to enable you to locate these. There are a number of instruction videos available on the homepage of the VLE to support you with the use of Turnitin.

Your raw mark (subject to the ratification process) and associated feedback will be made available to you on the deadline release date. Please be aware that this raw mark will not reflect any associated late submission penalties. Your final mark (subject to ratification) with any associated deductions or penalties will be the mark visible through your eVision ‘view my results’ section. The eVision result is the mark that will contribute to your progression and award calculation.

Any summative work submitted through Turnitin may be used anonymously as an exemplar for future cohort teaching sessions. For further information you may contact dohs-assessments@york.ac.uk.