Honor Code
Honor Code
Unauthorized assistance, cheating, or plagiarizing an assignment or assessment is an inappropriate behavior and shall result in disciplinary action as outlined in Regulation 2601, Student Rights and Responsibilities booklet.
Teachers have the responsibility to:
- Teach or review the correct use of sources and citations when assigning work.
- Explicitly define academic dishonesty, including examples, for classwork, homework, and assessments to ensure clarity and prevent misunderstandings.
- Structure conditions during testing to alleviate the possibility of cheating.
- Specify the types of collaboration that are discouraged and those that are encouraged.
- Specify when it is acceptable for students to use Artificial Intelligence (AI) on any part of an assignment and what the expectations are for students to cite and/or explain their use of AI.
Students have the responsibility to:
- Avoid situations that might contribute to cheating or plagiarizing.
- Avoid unauthorized assistance. Clarify with teachers when it is acceptable to use AI and how to cite and/or explain AI use.
- Use sources in the prescribed manner.
- Document borrowed materials by citing sources.
- Avoid plagiarism by using quotation marks for statements taken from others; acknowledging information and ideas borrowed from any source; consulting faculty members about a questionable situation; Avoid “cutting” and “pasting” from other sources without proper attribution or citation.
- Teachers may require work to be completed in specific platforms (e.g., Google Docs).
Students who violate “the spirit or the letter of the law” regarding unauthorized assistance, cheating, or plagiarizing must accept responsibility for their actions and the accompanying consequences. Consequences may include:
- A parent/guardian-student-administrator conference.
- Retaking a test.
- An alternative assignment or recompletion of the original assignment.
- A lowering of the grade or receiving a zero for the assignment, until their second attempt (for qualifying assignments)
Regardless of whether you use a personal device or an FCPS device, students must follow teachers' expectations, the Honor Code, and SR&R.
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