Academic Integrity - Supporting your students
How to support your students
Become aware of the range of services available for students at Monash to support students academic performance. You can start by completing the MEA Module on Supporting academic integrity in your teaching so that you are able to better promote academic integrity, detect misconduct and respond to breaches.
Communicate openly and honestly with students about academic integrity
These slides have been prepared to help you talk to your students about academic integrity including advice on how to approach generative artificial intelligence. The slide pack contains introductory information, questions about consequences for breach and scenarios where appropriate academic practice might become inappropriate. You can customise the slides to be discipline specific, and use those that are appropriate for your unit.
It is important to create a culture of integrity in your teaching and encourage integrity in learning and assessment. Below are a few strategies for embedding academic integrity in your unit.
- Design the assessment regime and embed educative and preventative strategies.
- Allow student to demonstrate their learning in the task design.
- Adopt targeted security measures and review and monitor assessment practices.
- Anticipate areas that may be more or less secure and deploy time and effort according to the importance of the tasks.
- Share the standards and expectations of a Monash scholar with students and tell them where to get help.
- Define acceptable and unacceptable behaviours with examples.
- Work with students in partnership to give and receive feedback about academic integrity practices and how they are embedded in the unit.
- Create a culture of academic honesty, respect, trust, fairness and responsibility.
- Get to know students, give them formative and scaffolded tasks to develop academic integrity practices.
- Give students feedback specific to academic integrity practices.
- Reiterate expectations and standards with each new task and have frank conversations.
What resources and services are available to students
A number of services at Monash can help students learn about and maintain academic integrity. Breaches of academic integrity often arise as a result of skill deficits and desperation, rather than deliberate attempts to cheat.
Share the student resources about academic integrity on Learn HQ. Share these resources with your students:
Compulsory Unit Modules - Academic Integrity and Respect at Monash
Both Australian and Malaysian new students need to complete the compulsory unit on academic integrity. If you are teaching a first year unit or have new students in your unit, you can share the link to these modules for them to complete.
Academic integrity slide packs
This set of slide packs may be downloaded and amended to suit a specific unit. The slides define and explain the expectations of Academic Integrity at Monash with links to student support resources.
Learn HQ: maintain academic integrity
Suite of resources to help students apply and maintain principles of academic integrity at Monash. Students will learn what academic integrity is and why it is important, what to do and avoid in order to maintain it, and how to avoid unintentional breaches.
Student Academic Success: Learning and Language Support
Encourage students to seek advice from learning and language support about understanding the assessment task. Students can make appointments or attend a drop-in session with a Learning Adviser who can assist them with interpreting and analysing the requirements of assessments. They can also learn about time management, including managing multiple assessment tasks across the semester.
Counselling service
Share this link for counselling services so that students can obtain additional support around a number of issues from managing motivation, coping with stress and/or anxiety, prioritisation and managing perfectionism.
Assessment and results: Special consideration processes
Share this link to let students know how to apply for special consideration that may allow them to obtain an extension, create another assessment, or sit a deferred exam.
Plagiarism infographic
An informative infographic about plagiarism and how to avoid it, with simple graphics and instructions for students.
LearnHQ: Using artificial intelligence
Advice for students about the reliability of artificial intelligence, how it can be used responsibly and ethically and how its use can be acknowledged in student work.
LearnHQ: Acknowledging the use of generative artificial intelligence
Recommendations for students from the Monash University Library and Portfolio of the Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Education) about how referencing should be used to acknowledge the use of generative artificial intelligence in academic work