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At Northeastern University, the Academic Integrity Policy is administered by the Office of Student Conduct and Conflict Resolution, known as OSCCR. After a report, OSCCR decides whether a case warrants a hearing or only an "Information Only" educational notice. Cases...
At the University of Miami, undergraduate academic integrity is governed by the Undergraduate Honor Code, which was ratified by student referendum in 1986 and covers cheating, plagiarism, collusion, and other academic dishonesty. Its most distinctive feature is...
At Stanford University, academic integrity is governed by the Honor Code, and alleged violations are handled by the Office of Community Standards, known as OCS. Since 2023, cases have been adjudicated under the Stanford Student Conduct Charter of 2023, which sets out...
At Cornell University, academic integrity cases are governed by the Code of Academic Integrity, and they typically begin with the instructor, not a central conduct office. A student who wants a decision reviewed can bring the case before the Academic Integrity Hearing...
At Boston University, academic misconduct is governed by the Academic Conduct Code and handled by the student's school or college rather than by one central office. A case can be resolved with an Agreement for Resolution, which BU's code says a student is not required...
A Grammarly Authorship report is a record of how a document was written, showing which text was typed, pasted, or generated or edited with AI. Students turn on Authorship tracking while they write in tools like Google Docs or Microsoft Word, and some instructors now...
Turnitin Clarity is a writing space where students draft assignments inside Turnitin, and it records how the work was built, not just the finished paper. When the student submits, the instructor can see a Writing Report with details such as revision history, pasted...
A ProctorU incident report documents something proctors observed during an exam that may conflict with the exam's rules. It isn't a finding that a student cheated. According to materials from Meazure Learning, the company behind ProctorU, the incident report goes to...
A Proctorio flag marks a moment in an exam that the software identified for an instructor to review, and a suspicion level summarizes those flags. Neither is a finding that a student cheated. Proctorio's own FAQ states that it doesn't determine which behavior counts...
An ExamSoft flag means the software detected something during an exam that it marked as an incident for review, not that a student was found to have cheated. ExamSoft's review tools are built around human review: detected incidents go into a review queue where people...