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Academic Integrity

Ensuring the academic integrity of student work is critical to maintaining high quality academic and professional practice and the reputation of the College. It is central to educational success and student attainment of the College’s Graduate Attributes.

Academic integrity requires that students are ethical and honest in the development and presentation of their work and are careful to distinguish and identify their own work from that of others.

A range of strategies will be used to support the academic integrity of students.
Academic, library and learning support staff should provide consistent guidance and opportunities for students to understand and practise integrity in their coursework and assessment tasks.

Where the academic integrity of student work is in question, the College will follow a consistent and fair process of investigation, and where academic misconduct is established will apply appropriate educative responses and/or penalties as described in Policy and Procedure section in the Student Academic Integrity Policy and Procedure.

Referencing

Referencing is an important component of academic writing. Students may use either Chicago or APA when referencing. Chicago is preferred for the theology disciplines, while APA is preferred for the social science disciplines such as counselling.

Acknowledging the work, writing or thought of others

It is important for students to acknowledge that they have used the work, the writings, or the thought of others in assessments. It is unfair to honest students that other students cheat or plagiarise.

A workshop on plagiarism / academic misconduct will be conducted at the beginning of each semester for new students.

Academic misconduct consists of a person using the words or ideas of another as if they were his or her own, i.e. the student has not acknowledged the ‘use of another person’s work’ through appropriate referencing. The phrase ‘using another person’s work’ includes, but is not limited to:

paraphrasing the work of another person;
directly copying any part of another person’s work;
summarising the work of another person;
using or developing an idea or theme derived from another person’s work;
using experimental results obtained from another person’s work; and
in collaborative projects, falsely representing the individual contributions of the collaborating students where individual contributions are to be identified.

Other forms of cheating will also be treated with the utmost seriousness. The college reserves the right to scan electronically student assignments for the purposes of verifying originality.

Penalties for plagiarism are listed in the Student Academic Integrity Policy and Procedure.

Use of Artificial Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools, including Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI), cannot be used in assessments unless its use is specifically approved in the assessment section of the unit outline for the relevant unit.

If students are permitted to use AI tools in an assessment, the individual assessment item information will detail where and how you can use these tools within the assessment. If AI tools are permitted in an assessment, students may be required to reference the use of these tools, supply the prompts used, keep drafts of assessments where AI has been used and be able to explain how AI was used in the development of the assessment; specific requirements will be detailed for each assessment.

The use of AI tools without specific written approval may constitute a breach of the Student Academic Integrity Policy and Procedure and may be penalised accordingly.

Further information, resources and guidance on using GenAI, including referencing and citing AI, can be found on iona.moodlecloud.com.

Important: Students may be asked to sit additional oral / viva presentations as part of any assessment tasks listed in the unit outline for the relevant unit.