UCA Online

All work submitted and/or marked complete in the UCA Online is assumed to have been completed only by students from their own student account. Students are also responsible for observing the standards on plagiarism and properly crediting all sources relied on in the composition of their work. Failure to abide by these standards will be reported to the Principal and will result in a conference with the student’s parent. Students who violate this policy are subject to the following consequences.

Consequences:
1. First Offense - The parent is informed and the student will have the opportunity to redo the assignment with a 25% deduction.
2. Second Offense - Conference with teacher. The student will receive a zero on the assignment with no opportunity to resubmit.
3. Third Offense - The student will receive a zero on the assignment and will be required to do a presentation over plagiarism at a mandatory meeting with the teachers, parents, and principal.
4. Fourth Offense- Possible expulsion hearing with the Principal.

Plagiarism
The definition of plagiarism is: Copying or imitating the language, ideas, and thoughts of another writer and passing them off as your own original work. Specific examples of plagiarism that is not tolerated are:
• Copying or rephrasing another student's work.
• Taking material from Internet sources and using it as your own, even if some words are changed.
• Having someone else write an assignment or rephrase any part of an assignment (not just proofread it).
• Directly copying critical sources, or reference materials in part or in whole without acknowledgment.
• Indirect reproduction of critical sources, or reference materials by rephrasing ideas borrowed from them without acknowledgment.

Source Citation
Many courses require written work in which students need to cite sources. Any direct quotations from a textbook can simply be cited as (Author, Page Number). Any quotations from outside sources require full citations, including author, title, publisher, date of publication, and page number. If a student cites information found on a Web site, he/she provide the complete Web page or site title, URL, author if known, page number if applicable, and publication date of the site, if available, and date of access.

Student’s Code & Pledge As a student at UCA, I take personal ownership of my education and behavior. I understand and embrace the scholarly traits which will lead me to success.
Student’s traits:
• Goal Oriented – I have goals and I strive every day to reach them.
• Perseverance – I don’t give up. If I have struggles, I seek to resolve them.
• Pride – I always take pride my school and my work.
• Curiosity – I have questions and I look for answers.
• Resourcefulness – I use resources and references to the best of my ability.
• Organization – I have a personal system for organizing and collecting ideas.
• Academic Integrity – I practice honesty in all aspects of my learning.

In addition, I know the unethical behaviors of cheating and plagiarism are NOT tolerated. I understand that these behaviors will damage my chances for success and also impact the success of others.

Plagiarism includes, but is not limited to:
Failing to provide proper credit and citations when:
• Copying another person’s actual spoken or written words
• Using another person’s idea, opinion, or theory
• Using facts, statistics, graphs, drawings, and pieces of information that are not common knowledge
• Paraphrasing another person’s spoken or written words
• Downloading papers or excerpts from a website and turning them in as your own
Cheating includes, but is not limited to:
• Copying, stealing, borrowing, or turning in as one’s own, the work of another student
• Loaning your work to another student to help him/her complete an assignment
• Collaborating on assignments without instructor’s permission and submitting as your own work
• Getting or giving questions to other students in another section to help with a test
• Purchasing, downloading or copying software programs, documents, graphic designs, papers, assignments, tests or answer keys from the Internet to complete any part of an assignment
• Copying or taking pictures of tests, test questions or answers and posting on internet websites like Facebook or sharing test information in any public forum
• Multiple submission or using work previously submitted for course credit at UCA or any other school, even if it is revised or altered

I understand the consequences of plagiarism and cheating listed below.

Consequences
1. First Offense - The parent is informed and the student will have the opportunity to redo the assignment with a 25% deduction.
2. Second Offense - Conference with teacher. The student will receive a zero on the assignment with no opportunity to resubmit.
3. Third Offense - The student will receive a zero on the assignment and will be required to do a presentation over plagiarism at a mandatory meeting with the teachers, parents, and principal.
5. Fourth Offense - Possible expulsion hearing with the Principal.
Finally, I realize that my academic honor and integrity are important parts of all future endeavors and the consequences of my actions may also result in the loss of recommendations, and college admissions as well as internships and job opportunities.