Guidelines for Student Discipline in Cheating Situations
Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Typical examples of cheating:
- Failure to properly cite sources in a report or presentation
- Glancing at other students’ work on computers, quizzes, or exams
- Submitting directly copied or substantially identical versions of other students’ work. Submitted work must make a convincing case that the solution has come from the submitter’s own head. There should be no appearance of copying or paraphrasing others’ work, either from the current year or previous years.
- Bringing unauthorized materials to a quiz or exam (test aids)
- Secretly collaborating on an examination
- Stealing research materials or in any way sabotaging other students homework, projects, or exam
Department-recommended guidelines for discipline
- Faculty may modify these practices to fit particular cases if the situation warrants.
- All offenses become part of the student’s permanent record.
First offense:
- Exam or quiz: (test aids, collaboration, overt glancing, sabotage): zero on the exam
- Homework assignment (collaboration, glancing, sabotage): zero on the assignment, and an additional 1/3 letter grade subtracted from final course total
- Project (report) or presentation: depends on the severity of the cheating:
- Willfully failing to cite sources: 1 letter grade
- Glancing at other students’ work on computers: 1/3 letter grade for each offense
- Copying other students’ work, submitting identical work, copying from previous semesters’ work: zero on the project
- Stealing research materials or sabotage: zero on the project
Second offense:
Failing grade for the course
