The Academic Integrity Awareness module is mandatory for all students at RMIT's Australian campuses. Commencing students will be automatically enrolled in the module and it will appear on their Canvas dashboard.

Academic Integrity, or the ability to produce work with honesty and fairness, is essential to academic study.

This module explains the concept of academic integrity and its significance within and beyond university. As part of this module, students explore the importance of doing one's own work while also acknowledging how other people's ideas have influenced their thinking and writing.

Effort: Approximately 40 minutes

Mode: Online

If not automatically enrolled, staff and students can access the module through the Academic Integrity Awareness enrolment page. 

Learning outcomes

Successful completion demonstrates to future employers that students are able to:

• acknowledge that the RMIT community has expectations around academic integrity
• acknowledge that honesty, fairness and respect are values associated with academic integrity
• are able to recognise academic misconduct and its impact
• are able to identify appropriate referencing techniques

Assessment

The Final Assessment for this module is a multiple-choice quiz (MCQ), with 13 questions total. This is auto-marked, with no facilitation involved.

The assessment is designed to test the participants' understanding of topics such as: identifying instances of academic integrity and academic misconduct, the relationship between referencing/citation and academic integrity, how to avoid academic misconduct, and what it means to be a part of an academic community.

There is no time limit for the final assessment and students have an unlimited number of attempts. They are required to achieve a score of 100% to complete the module.

Complete information for staff about the Student Mandatory Modules, including Academic Integrity Awareness is available on Student Onboarding Modules webpage.

Note: Staff wanting to verify if a student has completed the module should contact Student Connect.

The Academic Integrity Awareness module introduces fundamental principles of academic conduct and will benefit:

• any student new to RMIT
• first-year undergraduates 
• Vocational Education students
• Masters students new to RMIT
• international students new to the Australian academic environment

Student benefits

On completion of this module, students will have engaged in activity-based learning and will:

• understand what academic integrity means in the Australian university context
• know how to avoid academic misconduct
• understand how the principles of paraphrasing and referencing relate to academic integrity
• know which types of materials need to be referenced 

Students can find further information on the mandatory modules on the student onboarding modules webpage.

Staff with any queries about the content of the module should contact Library Study Support at studysupport@rmit.edu.au.

Note: since the module is mandatory for all students at RMIT's Australian campuses, there is no need for staff to embed the module in their courses.