Academic Integrity

By this point in your education, we expect you’re familiar with what is and is not acceptable academic behavior, but here's a reminder...

Behaviors:

  • Any form of cheating on exams is unacceptable. We follow the UBC campus rules on assessment.
  • PA/HWs: we allow credited collaboration with a single partner on PA/HWs. The PA/HW write-ups give you detailed instructions for declaring your collaborators. Each student is still responsible for submitting code/answers for grading. You may only collaborate with students currently taking the course. Do not ask for help from your roommate who took the class last semester, or from your parent’s sibling's nibling's cousin’s former roommate Links to an external site.. Do no accept assistance from students not currently enrolled in the class, even if they offer. Do not contract your work to anyone else.
  • Piazza: You should not publicly post solutions or partial solutions to HWs, PAs, or labs or any questions/solutions about examlets. You are welcome to publicly post questions about HWs or PAs and post questions/solutions for practice problems or other ungraded material. (Lab questions should be asked during your lab first.) You are welcome to privately post questions or solutions of any sort. If in doubt, just post privately!
  • You may not receive help from anyone outside of course staff and your credited partner for that assignment. If you are struggling with an assignment, course staff will help you better than your friend can, and we won’t have to talk to you about an integrity violation.
  • You may not use or refer to solutions written in past semesters or found online.

Penalties:

At UBC, a course instructor does not impose academic misconduct penalties. Instead, should we determine that you have committed misconduct on an assessment, (1) we will assign a grade of 0 for the assessment (reflecting your academic contribution to the assessment), and (2) we will initiate an academic misconduct case in which the university will determine an appropriate penalty for misconduct. Avoid that misconduct process the very simple way: by doing your own work!