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Faculty resources

Supporting you in prevention, detection, and discipline

There are many resources available to help you teach your students the importance of academic integrity.

Course and assignment design

Learn how you can design your courses and assignments with academic integrity in mind and reduce academic integrity issues in your classes.

Explore course and assignment design resources
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Preventing and detecting plagiarism

Get tips and ideas on preventing plagiarism among your students including suggestions for designing assignments with prevention in mind and learn about the tools and methods available to detect plagiarism.

Learn more about preventing and detecting plagiarism
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Ouriginal plagiarism detection tool

Ouriginal (formerly Urkund) is an add-on tool for Brightspace that is an automatic text-recognition system made for detecting, preventing, and handling plagiarism, regardless of language. Ouriginal seamlessly connects to your created assignments in Brightspace.

Learn how to access and use Ouriginal
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Discipline process and penalties

Learn how to handle suspected academic integrity issues in your classes, what penalties may be assigned and how to contact your faculty academic integrity officer (AIO) for support.

Read more about Dalhousie’s discipline process and penalties page
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Centre for Academic Integrity

The Center for Academic Integrity provides a forum to identify, affirm and promote the values of academic integrity among students, faculty, teachers, and administrators. They also provide many resources you can use in your classes including the Fundamental Values of Academic Integrity.