Gina Dyson
Associate Director
Student Affairs and Academic Integrity
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• Best Practices
• Academic Integrity Policy
• Using Turnitin for Discussions DEMO
• Evaluating an Originality Report
• Academic Integrity Inquiry Process
• Resources
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• Encourage completion of our Academic Integrity
Tutorial located at the Writing Center http://writingcenter.waldenu.edu/809.htm
• Encourage use of Turnitin Drafts
– 6 drafts in the classroom
– Unlimited drafts at the Writing Center
• Classroom announcement/email
– Encourage citing, paraphrasing and synthesizing
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Discussions
• Examine one week’s worth of main posts
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– Submit and examine any individual posts throughout the course that look concerning
Applications:
• Examine a sampling of originality reports based on course length
 Especially concerning reports should be included in your random sample
• Doc Studies: Google or Dogpile can help too
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• References, quotes and 1% matches should already be excluded
• What’s left?
– Common phrases
– Content that has been borrowed and not paraphrased/synthesized
• Matches to previously submitted papers
– From Laureate/Walden
– From another university
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• Understand your program’s expectations around teachable moments and internal warnings
• Once you need to make something formal, send an academic integrity inquiry letter
– Email Subject: Academic Integrity Inquiry
– Copy your Program Director or their academic integrity designee
– Do not copy Code of Conduct (COC)
• Your PD/designee will work with you to decide sanctions and will send a formal Findings letter. You and COC will be copied
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• Academic Integrity Inquiry Template: available in eCampus
• Academic Integrity Tutorial:
– Faculty can access the module in ELMS
– Students can access the module at the Writing Center: http://writingcenter.waldenu.edu/Documents/Scholarly-
Writing/Academic_Integrity_Student_04.24.13.swf
• For Turnitin technical support:
• Faculty may contact the Student Support Team: 1-877-780-
9954, option 1 or Turnitin directly (please do not give this number to students): 1-866-816-5046 x241.
• Students can contact the Student Support Team for technical assistance: 1-800-WALDENU.
• Gina.dyson@waldenu.edu
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