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What’s New for Instructors in ¹ú²ú91ÓÈÎ︣ÀûÔÚÏß¹Û¿´â€™s Academic Integrity Procedures

Effective September 1, 2025 

¹ú²ú91ÓÈÎ︣ÀûÔÚÏß¹Û¿´â€™s University has updated its Academic Integrity Procedures – Requirements of Faculties and Schools to make expectations clearer and processes more consistent across Faculties and Schools. While the core values remain unchanged, the revised Procedures provide clearer guidance on how academic integrity applies in specific situations. Please note that if there is any discrepancy between local Faculty or School policies (e.g., academic calendars) and these university-wide Procedures, the central Procedures take precedence (see Section 1.1). 

Here’s what instructors need to know: 

Overview of Key Changes 

Area of Change Impact of Change 
Forms  Use updated forms from  
Categorization  You no longer categorize findings as Level I or Level II. 
Sanctions  New options (e.g. learning experiences); new restrictions on grade deductions 
Cross-faculty Coordination  You will now decide the sanctions for students whose home faculty is different from the course faculty in most situations. 

 

Always download the latest forms from the Academic Integrity website before starting an investigation. 

  • Forms are tailored to the revised procedures and support each step of the process. 
  • There are now two Finding forms for instructors.  
  • One for when you assign both the finding and the sanction. 
  • One for when you assign the finding, but refer the case to the AI Lead for sanctioning. 

Why it matters: Using outdated forms may result in procedural errors and/or acting beyond your authority, which in turn will increase the risk of successful student appeals. 

See the on this website for additional details and to download the most recent versions of investigation forms. 

Instructors no longer decide whether a case is Level I or Level II. 

  • If you assign both the finding and the sanction, the case is automatically Level I. 
  • Level I records are stored separately, destroyed upon graduation, and accessed internally only in limited ways  
  • If the case is referred for sanctioning (e.g., due to prior findings or serious sanctions), categorization is handled by the AI Lead. 

Why it matters:  This change removes subjectivity and ensures consistent categorization across investigations, which improves fairness and simplifies record management. 

See Section 1.7 for additional details. 

Instructors may assign the following sanctions 

  • A written warning  
  • NEW: Completion of an academic integrity module 
  • EXPANDED: Learning experience (e.g. revising work, completing a reflection activity) 
  • Submission of new or other work  
  • Deduction of marks for the work or exam 
  • Deduction of a percentage of the final course grade 

Important, instructors may NO LONGER assign: 

  • A course failure (e.g., zero in the course). 
  • sanctions that in total make it mathematically impossible for any student to pass the course. 
  • Typically, this means deductions must not exceed 50% in undergraduate courses or 30% in research-based graduate courses. 
  • If your course has specific pass conditions (e.g. passing the final exam), this means the sanctions must not make it impossible to meet those requirements. 

Why it matters: The new options emphasize education and learning, while shifting course failures to the AI Lead ensures consistency in handling sanctions with serious academic consequences. 

See Section 3.4.2 and Section 3.4.3 for additional details. 

If the faculty that the student is registered in differs from the course faculty: 

  • The course instructor investigates and usually assigns the sanction. 
  • If the case is referred, the Academic Integrity Lead in the student’s faculty decides the sanction. 

Referrals happen when: 

  • The student has one or more prior findings on record. 
  • The sanction would prevent the student from passing the course based on known grades. 
  • The sanction is one that only an AI Lead can assign (e.g. course failure or a requirement to withdraw from the university). 

Why it matters: This ensures that the student’s case is handled consistently, fairly, and in a timely manner, even when they are taking courses outside the school they are registered in. 

See Section 5.1 for additional details.