AI
Your Teacher Assigns Homework that you don't understand, so you plug the question into chat GPT and use their response.
PLAGIARISM
When you use AI-generated work without proper attribution it constitutes plagiarism.
You were out sick from school, and missed a lot of homework. Your friend offers to give you their homework to copy, and you accept.
INTEGRITY
Receiving aid on work that is not explicitly indicated by a teacher violates your integrity.
Instead, go to your teachers/send them emails and figure out how to ethically get caught up with the class
Math homework is hard. You have been sitting at the table for an hour trying to complete a certain problem when your dad asks you if he can help. Since you are lost on homework, you ask your dad to do it for you.
INTEGRITY
Giving/Receiving aid on work that is not specifically indicated by your teacher violates your integrity.
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
using unauthorized notes prior to an assessment meant to be completed individually is cheating.
Your teacher tells you to use AI on an assignment to come up with possible titles for an essay about turtles that you wrote. You use chat gpt to come up with the title: "More than Just a Shell" and cite chat gpt as a resource in you bibliography.
HONORABLE
This depends on each teacher individually, but as long as you follow their instructions and only use AI when they explicitly allow you to, as well as adding proper attribution in your bibliography, this follows the honor code.
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
Giving/Receiving unauthorized information prior to an assessment meant to be completed individually constitutes cheating.
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.
HONORABLE
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. When your teacher asks you if this is all your work, you tell them it was.
PLAGIARISM & LYING
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. You also misrepresented information about academic matters to your teacher.
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.
HONORABLE
Working as a group, when instructed to by teacher is completely fine, have fun working 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.
HONORABLE
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.
PLAGIARISM
If your teacher assigns AI, only use it when explicitly indicated, and using AI without proper attribution constitutes plagiarism.
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 as direct, telling your friend what to study on a test is an unfair advantage. Giving/Receiving any kind of unauthorized information prior to an assessment meant to be completed individually constitutes cheating.
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
Giving/Receiving unauthorized information prior to an assessment meant to be completed individually constitutes cheating. Your brother loves you, but sharing test answers is cheating, no matter who tells them to you.
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.
In history class, you and your group of 2 other friends, Emily and Steve, are assigned a project. Your group gets together and decides to split up the work evenly into three parts. A week later, when you come together to check progress you and Catie have both completed your work but Steve hasn't because he was sick. You decide to do his work for him, and credit him with the work when you submit your test.
LYING
If you intentionally misrepresent information about academic matters to your teacher it is lying, and violates the honor code.
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 that is meant to be completed individually is academic dishonesty and violates the honor code.
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.
LYING
Although the cheat sheet was fake, this is academic dishonesty because you intended to lie to your teacher and cheat on a test. When you intentionally misrepresent information about academic matters to you teachers, you are violating the honor code.