AI
Your Teacher Assigns Homework that you don't understand, so you plug the question into chat GPT and use their response.
CHEATING
This assignment isn't your own work.
You were out sick from school, and missed a lot of homework. Your friend offers to give you their homework to copy.
CHEATING
instead, go to your teachers/send them emails and figure out how to ethically get caught up with the class
You are lost on homework, and ask your dad to do it for you
CHEATING
your parents have already gone to school! this work is for you to learn!
You go into your math teachers classroom during consultation to ask questions about the upcoming quiz, but they aren't there. On their desk you see a paper with what you think are the quiz answers, you take a picture and memorize the answers for the quiz.
CHEATING
This is dishonest, and is an unfair advantage over your peers
Your teacher explicitly tells you to use AI on an assignment.
NOT CHEATING
as long as you follow their exact instructions
Your friend just took the math quiz you've been worrying about all week. You ask them how it was and what kind of material you should study. You're friend is happy to share and even gives an example of one of the problems. You feel relived and ready to take on the test!
CHEATING
This gives you an unfair advantage over your peers, and is not academically honest
Your parents are very adamant about you getting an A on a upcoming Spanish paper. You feel the pressure to succeed so you end up writing most of the paper using google translate. You get an A and your parents are super happy!
CHEATING
using google translate, unless explicitly allowed by your teacher, is cheating and does not comply with the honor code
You are taking your first Physics test of the year. During consultation you visit Ms. Meyers and ask her some questions about equations you don't yet understand.
NOT CHEATING
Visiting teachers during consultation to ask questions is completely fine, and encouraged!
You have been assigned to write an essay on the history of tap-dancing. You wrote you essay, and then used grammarly to check your grammar, it not only did that but also revised certain sentences to make your essay more formal.
CHEATING
Unless your teacher explicitly states the use of AI, including grammarly is okay, then it isn't. Even if they approve you must also then make a citation to credit grammarly in your bibliography.
Your history teacher assigns a group project where you, and your friend will work together to make a video! You work together and ask eachother questions about the content of the video.
NOT CHEATING
Working as a group, when told to by a teacher is completely fine, have fun together!
Your teacher tells you to interview an expert in architecture for homework. Luckily for you, your dad is an architect, so you interview him and submit your homework.
NOT CHEATING
Ask your teacher to clarify their thoughts but this follows the academic honor code and is not cheating
You and your friends decide to study together for the upcoming history test, you meet multiple times before the test. When you meet, you quiz each other, use prior assignments to study, and make practice questions for one another to study content.
NOT CHEATING
studying together, if your teacher allows it, is completely fine and a great way to study content together
Your teacher tells you to use AI on a specific part of an assignment. So you use AI to complete the entire assignment.
CHEATING
If your teacher assigns AI, only use it when explicitly indicated
Your best friend, Stan was sick during the last history test. He asks you not to tell him any answers but wants to know wether or not he should study content from chapter 10 of your book.
CHEATING
although it isn't direct, telling your friend what to study on a test is an unfair advantage
Your parents really want you to get into Harvard, and tell you that getting anything but an A is unacceptable. As you are doing your math homework, they tell you they approve of you using chat GPT to answer the questions.
CHEATING
Your parents want the best for you, but unless your teacher says it's okay, using AI to answer homework is not compliant with the honor code
You have a unit test in history that you have been worried about all week. Luckily, your older brother took the same test last year, and tells you what he remembers about it, and the correct answers.
CHEATING
Your brother loves you, but sharing test answers is cheating, no matter who tells you them
You have been assigned an essay in english. The essay has to have a thesis, 3 body paragraphs, and a conclusion. You ask chat GPT to make an outline for your essay based on the thesis you wrote. You then use the outline to write your essay.
CHEATING
This is tricky, but your teachers assign essays for you to learn how to write AND structure academic writing. If you ever feel unsure, ask your individual teacher what they think.
CHEATING
Although you want to help your friend doing someone else's work and being dishonest about it violates the honor code, and doesn't help them in the long run
You studied long and hard to take your physics exam and it is really important for you to do well. While you are taking the exam you come across a question and do your best to solve it, but once you finish your test and are reviewing your answers you are worried it's wrong. Sitting next to you is your friend, Nathan and you know he wouldn't mind you checking his work to see if you are right. So, you quickly glance at his work and see that he has the same answer, so you turn in your test without changing anything.
CHEATING
Looking at other peoples answers during a test is academic dishonesty and violates the honor code. Even though you didn't change your answer, looking at his test confirmed your beliefs and if you hadn't looked your answer may be different.
You are worried about the upcoming history test because it covers a lot of content. Your friend sends you a picture and tells you its the answers to the test. You memorize these answers, but when you take the test the questions are completely different than the cheat sheet and you have to answer on your own.
CHEATING
Although the cheat sheet was fake, this is academic dishonesty because you intended to lie to your teacher and cheat on a test