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Honor Code

Honor Code and Gradebook Declarations

You will be responsible for recording the completion of some of your assignments in the online Gradebook. These are called Gradebook Declarations. The Honor Code means you will honestly represent your efforts when you declare your work. If you make a false Gradebook Declaration, that is a violation of the Honor Code. Please make sure that you do not take credit for work that you did not complete! If you are not sure about whether you should complete a Gradebook Declaration, you need to contact me first. For more information this, please read the Gradebook Declaration Guidelines.

Honor Code and Plagiarism

In addition, this Honor Code requires that you must not commit any form of plagiarism in creating your Storybook project. If you have any questions about what would or would not be considered plagiarism, please ask me about it before you turn in your assignment. If you turn in work that has been plagiarized, that will be considered a violation of the Honor Code. For more information about this, please review the information here about How To Avoid Plagiarism.

Violations of the Honor Code will be treated severely

For a first violation of the Honor Code - either plagiarism or a false Gradebook Declaration - you will receive a zero on the assignment. You may also be required to do some kind of make-up assignment, depending on the specific incident.

For a second violation of the Honor Code - either plagiarism or a false Gradebook Declaration - you will receive a zero on the assignment and, in addition, a formal "admonition" will be filed with the Provost's Office. You may also be required to do some kind of make-up assignment, depending on the specific incident, and the Provost's Office may also choose to apply an additional penalty. You can read more about the academic ADMONITION process at the Provost's website.

For a third violation of the Honor Code - either plagiarism or a false Gradebook Declaration - I will file a report of academic misconduct with the Provost's Office. Once an academic misconduct report is filed, the Campus Judicial Coordinator will handle the complaint. Academic misconduct may result both in a grade penalty for this class and also in penalties assigned by the Provost, up to and including expulsion from the university. You can read more about the academic MISCONDUCT process at the Provost's website.