SBVC Statement on academic integrity:

Academic Dishonesty It is the belief at San Bernardino Valley College that students share a responsibility with their instructors for assuring that their education is honestly attained. In keeping with this belief, every instructor has the responsibility and authority to deal with any instances of plagiarism, cheating and/or fabrication that occur in the classroom. Examples of academic dishonesty include (but not limited to) the following:

Plagiarism:

Plagiarism is the act of presenting someone else’s work as one’s own. Examples include:

- Copying and pasting text from websites or other electronic sources and presenting it in an assignment as your own original work.

- Copying and pasting text from printed sources (including books, magazines, encyclopedias or newspapers) and presenting it in an assignment as your own original work.

- Using another student’s work and claiming it as your own original work (even if you have the permission of the other student).

SBVC Statement on academic integrity in online courses:

All of SBVC's policies about academic honesty and intellectual integrity apply to online, hybrid, and ITV classes as well as more traditional on-campus classes. But there are some specific issues that need to be highlighted for these "Distance Education" courses.

The person doing the work is the person getting the credit

By using your unique userID and unique password to access the District-sponsored Learning Management System, you are affirming, in fact, that you are the person registered for the course, the person doing the work for the course, and the person getting the credit for the course. It is a violation of the academic honesty and intellectual integrity policies of SBVC to log in to someone else's account and pretend to be that person.

Plagiarism

Students have often been rewarded for copying and pasting something from the internet into their own papers without proper citation. But this practice is plagiarism. And plagiarism is a violation of the academic honesty and intellectual integrity policies of SBVC.

"The computer ate my homework"

It might be convenient to blame technology for everything. But that practice fails to recognize that students are responsible for their own computer access and stable internet connection. Although the District-sponsored Learning Manage System will, from time to time, have problems, students need to accept responsibility for their own actions, actions that might be conveniently blamed on an impersonal component of technology.