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Conestoga offers opportunities for faculty to increase and deepen their understanding of Academic Integrity. Part-time faculty are paid hourly for completing many of these workshops. For more information, visit the Teaching and Learning Hub.

Academic Integrity Micro-Credential

Conestoga College offers an online micro-credential that explores key concepts, practices, and strategies related to academic integrity. You will take an in-depth look at topics like why students might cheat, how to build a culture of integrity, plagiarism and intentionality, the relationship between technology and academic integrity, contract cheating, and barriers to reporting academic incidents. For further information, visit Conestoga Continuing Education.

Artificial Intelligence Micro-Credentials

Conestoga currently offers two Artificial Intelligence Microcredentials, one on Teaching and one on Assessment. While these credentials are not specifically about Academic Integrity, these courses may be useful to help faculty with reducing misconduct through instructional design and assessment in a post-generative-AI world.

Academic Integrity Workshops

The Academic Integrity Office currently offers two recurring stand-alone Academic Integrity workshops.

  • Understanding Turnitin Similarity Reports (EDV0068): This course will provide a high-level overview of using, understanding, and interpreting Turnitin and its various features on eConestoga. During the two-hour workshop, participants will learn the best practice to set up Turnitin on their course shell, examine examples of similarity scores, and understand the new AI detector.
  • Navigating, Investigating, and Filing Academic Misconduct (EDEV0247): This workshop is designed to introduce faculty to Conestoga's Academic Integrity framework and procedure. We'll cover topics including what to consider when confronted with a potential academic integrity violation, how to file an academic incident (our procedure), how students may use contract cheating and file-sharing sites, and the supports available to faculty when navigating potential academic integrity violations.
  • Investigating Potential GenAI Use (EDV0328): In this workshop we'll explore the ethical and practical limitations of using GenAI detection tools and learn how to properly use Turnitin's AI Detection feature. We will then explore signs of possible AI generated work, what and how students can provide evidence of original work, and how to triage mass cases of GenAI use in your class. Lastly, we'll review how to conduct information gathering interviews for situations that warrant a conversation with your student.

Faculty can register for these workshops, and any others offered by the Academic Integrity Office, through their Student Portal.

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