Okanagan College Okanagan College Abstract
This article is required reading by all students. It outlines the expected behaviors with respect to cheating and plagiarism.
Abstract
This article is required reading by all students. It outlines the expected behaviors with respect to cheating and plagiarism.
Student Conduct & academic honesty
Ethics in Education
Student Conduct & academic honesty
Ethics in Education

STUDENT CONDUCT AND ACADEMIC HONESTY
Table of Contents WHAT IS THE DISRUPTION OF INSTRUCTIONAL ACTIVITIES? 2 WHAT IS CHEATING? 2 WHAT IS PLAGIARISM? 3 WHAT ARE THE STUDENTS’ RESPONSIBILITIES TO AVOID PLAGIARISM? 3 WHAT ARE THE PENALTIES FOR PLAGIARISM AND CHEATING? 2

WHAT IS THE DISRUPTION OF INSTRUCTIONAL ACTIVITIES?
At Okanagan College (OC), disruption of instructional activities includes student “conduct which interferes with examinations, lectures, seminars, tutorials, group meetings, other related activities, and with students using the study facilities of OC”, as well as conduct that leads to property damage, assault, discrimination, harassment and fraud. Penalties for disruption of instructional activities include a range of sanctions from a warning and/or a failing grade on an assignment, examination or course to suspension from OC.
WHAT IS CHEATING?
Students must submit independently written work. Students may not write collaborative assignments with other students unless the instructor approves it in advance. Students who share their work with other students are equally involved in cheating.
“Cheating includes but is not limited to dishonest or attempted dishonest conduct during tests or examinations in which the use is made of books, notes, diagrams or other aids, excluding those authorized by the examiner. It includes communicating with others for the purpose of obtaining information, copying