Code of Conduct

The Code of Conduct (Academic) is a University policy that outlines the procedures by which academic honesty or integrity is enforced. It outlines procedures for dealing with offenses and possible sanctions if charges are upheld.

Major offences under the Academic Code of Conduct

• Examination-related offences.
• Stealing or obtaining exam questions, exam answers or any other University documents without authorization.
• Possession and/or use of any non-authorized materials, documents or devices such as calculators, translators, crib sheets, or hidden notes, during an examination. Possession of other unauthorized material (such as cellphones, blackberries, etc.), even if not used, is itself an offence. This also applies to books that can be accessed during the examination.
• Copying answers from someone else’s exam paper during an examination, or getting unauthorized help during an examination.
• Communicating, for any reason, with any person other than the invigilator during an examination.
• Making any changes to an exam booklet, including tearing out pages or adding pages.
• Removing an exam paper or booklet from an examination room.

Other types of offences

• Personation: assuming the identity of another person or having another person assume one's own identity. For example, Mary who is not prepared for an exam asks her friend Jane, who took the course the previous year, to write the exam in her place. Both Mary and Jane can be charged with personation.
• Giving your work to another student knowing that he/she will hand in all or part of your work claiming that it is his/her own. Both students can be charged.
• Submitting the same piece of work for evaluation in two or more courses without prior approval from the course instructors.
• Falsifying documents. This includes any documents being submitted to Concordia as well as any Concordia documents. Examples of falsified documents include transcripts and records for the purpose of admission, notes from medical doctors, or other documents to avoid writing exams or handing in assignments on the prescribed dates.
• Falsifying research facts, data or sources of information. For example, changing a few data points in your experiment in order to improve on the experiment’s results.

To fully read the Academic Code of Conduct, please click on the following link:
Full Academic Code of Conduct.