Academic Integrity

The Assistant’s Role and Academic Integrity

Teaching assistants and graduate assistants can play an important role in promoting AI: whether marking assignments, evaluating group-work, or invigilating exams, assistants contribute to up-holding the standards of excellence expected at Ryerson. Therefore, assistants should know how to define plagiarism and other forms of academic misconduct, recognize when these occur, and follow the appropriate procedure. To ensure consistency and fairness, course instructors and assistants can arrange a meeting to discuss AI before the course begins.

One approach would be to review together the:

 “Ten Principles of Academic Integrity”

This way, everyone is on the same page right from the beginning of the course.

The following information will help you identify academic misconduct and know how to respond to it. Also, you may wish to look through the remainder of Ryerson’s AI website, including the “Student” and “Faculty” information tabs.