Cheating and Academic Dishonesty


It is the responsibility of every student to make sure their work is not available to others. Thus do not leave your work behind on a disk or on the computer screen or even a hard copy of your work (even in the garbage or if you forgot to pick up your print out). All of the above consitute negligence on the student's behalf and are potential breaches of academic honesty.

One way to help adjudicate possible cases of forgery is to analyze the level of understanding each student has in their own work. Since this understanding is at the center of the course goals, each student must strive to have a complete understanding of every exercise.

The assignments and all extra credit exercises assigned for this course are not team projects unless the instructor explicitly tells you so. You should not develop a single solution working together as a team. Even developing it "part way" can cause problems. Two identical or nearly identical solutions to the same problem will be regarded as evidence of over-collaboration and will be dealt with as cheating. The borderline where simply consulting with others becomes working as a team or copying is a gray area. If you have any doubts, you probably are working too closely and should stop - go off and work by yourself.

Do not cheat! Do not copy others work! Immerse yourself in the class. Learn the material. The benefit and enjoyment you will receive will be much more valuable than any consequences of cheating. You do not realize how easy it is for us to hand-check for those who have cheated and to prove it to others. Note that we have electronic means to detect collaboration (MOSS), which is even better than our hand-checks, that we will use to check for cheaters on every assignment! Individuals who have misrepresented work as being their own or who have assisted another will receive as a minimum: a grade of zero on that assignment and a decrease of one letter grade on their final course grade. This is in addition to any other penalties given by Student Affairs. Every individual in this class should examine the Academic Honesty Guidelines and Student Conduct Code in the University of Florida Undergraduate Catalog for more details. Ignorance of these Guidelines is no excuse!

Please check  http://www.dso.ufl.edu/Academic_Honesty.html