Academic Integrity

Academic Dishonesty Risk Reduction Guide

By: EdPlus Digital Learning Team

April 30, 2025

ASU Online is excited to share our Academic Dishonesty Risk Reduction Guide with you. The purpose of the guide is to help you review and refine the design of your course to ensure academic honesty and when appropriate harness the power of Artificial ...

Defining Cheating

By: EdPlus Digital Learning Team

April 30, 2025

When someone says “Don’t cheat” what do they really mean? Students often commit acts of academic dishonesty not because they are lazy, but because they did not understand that what they were doing was considered cheating. This video will explore vari ...

Cheaters Never Prosper

By: EdPlus Digital Learning Team

August 26, 2015

This post was updated on October 10, 2019.“How do you prevent cheating in online courses?” Since 1995, when the ASU Online instructional design team first started working with faculty to develop online courses, this is one of the most common que ...

How Students Cheat

By: EdPlus Digital Learning Team

June 28, 2012

In this video, we will look at how students cheat and how common certain acts of cheating really are. By taking a look at what students are commonly doing to be dishonest, we can develop strategies to prevent these acts.ReferencesKrutsch, J. (2008). ...

Why Students Cheat

By: EdPlus Digital Learning Team

June 15, 2012

When faculty are asked “why students cheat?” they often cite different reasons from what a student would say. In this video, I highlight why students cheat. We begin be looking at some of the research on why students cheat and then we look at a theor ...

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