Cheating
Cheating is serious and could result in severe consequences.
Cheating is serious and could result in severe consequences.
You could:
- Fail your course
- Be suspended or permanently excluded from your studies at UNSW
- Lose your visa
- Lose your degree (even after graduating)
- Be embarrassed or shamed in front of family and friends
- Be at risk of blackmail
This video was created by former UNSW students Zheng Zhou and Phranque Li. It was the winning submission to the 2020 Academic Integrity Communications Competition run by Arc@UNSW and sponsored by UNSW Sydney.
As a UNSW student, all of your work must be your own.
You may be cheating if you:
- Copy the work from someone else and submit it as your own.
- Share answers with another student/person during an exam.
- Use unauthorised materials during an exam.
- Fabricate data or references in an assignment.
- Use generative artificial intelligence in an unethical manner.
- Ask someone to help you:
- Write an assignment
- Take a quiz or exam on your behalf
- Edit your work
- Check your work through Turnitin
- Check test or quiz answers