Supporting your students
Communicate openly and honestly with students
It is important to create a culture of academic honesty, respect, trust, fairness and responsibility in your teaching and assessment. A slide-pack has been prepared to help you talk to your students about academic integrity. The slides define and explain the expectations of Academic Integrity at Monash with links to student support resources. Download and customise the slides to suit your discipline and unit.
Complete the MEA Module Supporting academic integrity in your teaching.
This module provides key information about academic integrity at Monash over a range of topics, including definitions of integrity and breach, educative and preventive strategies, and detection and investigation of breach. You may find that you return to complete different topics or review information as you encounter different scenarios and situations.
Resources and services 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.