Academic Integrity

This guide features resources for encouraging academic integrity at TCC. The Code of Conduct in the TCC Student Handbook explains and defines academic integrity.

Article III, Item 2: 

“Cheating” shall include, but not be limited to: 

1. Copying from another student’s test or class work; 
2. Using test materials not authorized by the person administering the test; 
3. Collaborating with or seeking aid from another student during a test without permission from the test administrator; 
4. Knowingly using, buying, selling, stealing, or soliciting, in whole or in part, the contents of an unadministered test, paper, or another assignment; 
5. The unauthorized transporting or removal, in whole or in part, of the contents of the unadministered test; 
6. Substituting for another student, or permitting another student to substitute for oneself, to take a test; 
7. Bribing another person to obtain an unadministered test or information about an unadministered test; or 
8. Manipulating a test, assignment, or final course grades

“Plagiarism” shall be defined as the appropriating, buying, receiving as a gift, or obtaining by any means another’s work and the unacknowledged submission or incorporation of it in one’s own written work

Use of artificial intelligence tools is left up to your faculty member to determine what is appropriate in each class. Make sure you follow the guidance given for each class. What is allowable in one class may not be allowable in another. Please see the Artificial Intelligence Guide for more information.