Community Guidelines & Academic Integrity

MCWP 40

Community Guidelines & Academic Integrity

Principles for Classroom and Online Interaction

Be respectful. Be sensitive. Be aware.

Effective written communication and open academic dialogue are crucial for sustaining a learning community that is respectful, considerate, relevant, creative, and thought-provoking. In an online classroom, expressions, meaning, and tone can easily be taken out of context, making it imperative that online learners adhere to the communication guidelines below:

  • Treat your classmates with respect.
  • Be thoughtful and open in discussion.
  • Be aware and sensitive to different perspectives.
  • Build one another up and encourage one another to succeed.

The following behavior should be avoided:

  • Using insulting, condescending, or abusive words.
  • Using all capital letters, which comes across as SHOUTING.
  • Contacting learners or posting advertisements and solicitations.
  • Posting copyrighted material.

Our classroom abides by these principles:

UCSD Student Conduct Code.
Principles of Community.

 

Participating in Zoom 

In order to participate effectively: 

Use the Chat Feature

  • Open the Chat panel - Monitor and use the chat function to ask any questions that you may have. Other students can see your questions, and can respond with their own answers or ask other follow-up questions. 
  • Keep it relevant - Keep your questions and comments relevant. Unnecessary comments, jokes, memes, and emojis can be distracting to others. 
  • "Raise" your hand - Use the "Raise Hand" option in the Participants panel if you would like to indicate non-verbally to the professor or TA that you have an important question.

Talk and Ask Questions

  • Keep yourself muted when you aren't speaking. Background noises like shuffling papers, keyboard typing, and other sounds will come across on your microphone and can be distracting to others. 
  • Introduce yourself - When you unmute yourself to speak, briefly introduce yourself by stating your name. Be sure to pause when speaking to allow for any delays in speech transmission, and to avoid interrupting others. 

Sources:

Will Styler's Guidelines for attending an online course

Stanford - How to Attend Online Classes Using Zoom Links to an external site.

Standards of Academic Integrity

Academic Integrity is expected of everyone at UC San Diego. This means that you must be honest, fair, responsible, respectful, and trustworthy in all of your actions. Lying, cheating, or any other forms of dishonesty will not be tolerated because they undermine learning and the University’s ability to certify students’ knowledge and abilities. Thus, any attempt to get, or help another get, a grade by cheating, lying or dishonesty will be reported to the Academic Integrity Office and will result in sanctions. Sanctions can include an F in the class and suspension or dismissal from the University. So, think carefully before you act. Before you act, ask yourself the following questions: a: is my action honest, fair, respectful, responsible, and trustworthy, and b) is my action authorized by the instructor? If you are unsure, don’t ask a friend, ask your instructor, instructional assistant, or the Academic Integrity Office. You can learn more about academic integrity at academicintegrity.ucsd.edu. 

(Source: Bertram Gallant, T. (2017). Teaching for integrity. UC San Diego Academic Integrity Office.)