Academic Integrity

Students are expected to maintain the highest standards of academic integrity. All work submitted must be original and properly cited. Plagiarism, cheating, or any form of academic dishonesty will result in immediate consequences as outlined in the university's academic integrity policy.

Academic Misconduct

One serious kind of academic misconduct is plagiarism, which occurs when a writer, speaker, or designer deliberately uses someone else’s language, ideas, images, or other original material or code without fully acknowledging its source by quotation marks as appropriate, in footnotes or endnotes, in works cited, and in other ways as appropriate (modified from WPA Statement on “Defining and Avoiding Plagiarism”). If you engage in plagiarism or any other form of academic misconduct, you will fail the assignment in which you have engaged in academic misconduct and be referred to the Office of Student Integrity, as required by Georgia Tech policy. 

We treat AI-based assistance the same way we treat collaboration with other people: you are welcome to talk about your ideas and work with other people, both inside and outside the class, as well as with AI-based assistants. However, all work you submit must be your own. You should never include in your assignment anything that was not written directly by you without proper citation (including quotation marks and in-line citation for direct quotes). Including anything you did not write in your assignment without proper citation will be treated as an academic misconduct case.

Academic Integrity

Students are expected to maintain the highest standards of academic integrity. All work submitted must be original and properly cited. Plagiarism, cheating, or any form of academic dishonesty will result in immediate consequences as outlined in the university's academic integrity policy.

Academic Misconduct

One serious kind of academic misconduct is plagiarism, which occurs when a writer, speaker, or designer deliberately uses someone else’s language, ideas, images, or other original material or code without fully acknowledging its source by quotation marks as appropriate, in footnotes or endnotes, in works cited, and in other ways as appropriate (modified from WPA Statement on “Defining and Avoiding Plagiarism”). If you engage in plagiarism or any other form of academic misconduct, you will fail the assignment in which you have engaged in academic misconduct and be referred to the Office of Student Integrity, as required by Georgia Tech policy. 

We treat AI-based assistance the same way we treat collaboration with other people: you are welcome to talk about your ideas and work with other people, both inside and outside the class, as well as with AI-based assistants. However, all work you submit must be your own. You should never include in your assignment anything that was not written directly by you without proper citation (including quotation marks and in-line citation for direct quotes). Including anything you did not write in your assignment without proper citation will be treated as an academic misconduct case.

We expect academic honor and integrity from students. Please study and follow the academic honor code of Georgia Tech: Links to an external site.https://policylibrary.gatech.edu/student-life/academic-honor-codeLinks to an external site.. You may collaborate on in class participation activities, but you must do your programming assignments alone or with TA help. Each individual programming assignment must be coded by you. Your submission must not be substantially similar to another student's submission. Collaboration at a reasonable level will not result in substantially similar code. Students that turn in submissions that are not fundamentally unique will receive a zero and will be referred to the Dean of Students Office of Student Integrity.  You may not collaborate on exams. The use of ChatGPT or any AI-generated content is strictly prohibited. Submissions found to have been generated or significantly influenced by an AI Model Software will result in disciplinary action. The TAs reserve the right to review and analyze your work for indications of AI usage. If we suspect that your submission was not independently created, we will report the incident for further investigation.

Academic dishonesty will not be tolerated. Students are expected to uphold the highest standards of academic honor and integrity and must abide by the Georgia Tech Academic Honor Code https://policylibrary.gatech.edu/student-life/academic-honor-code.

All programming assignments must be completed individually. You may seek conceptual help from TAs, but the code you submit must be entirely your own work. Your submission must not be substantially similar to another student’s submission. Collaboration at a reasonable level should not produce similar or identical code. Any submissions that are not fundamentally unique will receive a zero and will be referred to the Office of Student Integrity.

You may not collaborate on quizzes or exams. Use of ChatGPT, AI tools, Chegg, code-generation systems, online forums, or any other unauthorized resource is strictly prohibited on programming assignments, quizzes, exams, or any graded work. Submissions found to contain AI-generated content, or work significantly influenced by AI tools, will receive a zero and be reported to the Office of Student Integrity. TAs reserve the right to review and analyze submissions for indicators of plagiarism or AI use.

Any student suspected of cheating, plagiarizing, or assisting others in violating the Honor Code will be reported to the Office of Student Integrity, which will determine the appropriate sanctions.

Students are expected to maintain the highest standards of academic integrity. All work submitted must be original and properly cited. Plagiarism, cheating, or any form of academic dishonesty will result in immediate consequences as outlined in the university’s academic integrity policy. Every Student is expected to read, understand, and abide by the Georgia Tech Academic Honor Code.

As a programming course, discussions about course sessions, programming concepts, and algorithms are encouraged. Assignments and practice problems are collaborative, for which students can collaborate by talking through problems, discussing the MATLAB programming language, etc. However, the work submitted by a student must be their own. Students should not copy or send code to peers, but high-level discussions on their solutions are permitted. Additionally, students should not copy & paste from/to other sources such as Stack Overflow, AI agents, or other platforms that would compromise the integrity of their work or violate the course’s guidelines on original submission. Students may use these resources for support, such as further inquiring about algorithms, programming language syntax, etc., but they should be used after first attempting the problem independently. The goal of these resources should be to supplement students’ learning process and practice good programming practices, not replace their learning process.

We analyze assignment submissions with Moss, “a system for detecting software similarity,” and manually analyze flagged cases. Additionally, we cross-check solutions to those generated by AI agents, and search for defined “tells.” Any student suspected of cheating or plagiarizing on a quiz, exam, or assignment will be reported to the Office of Student Integrity (OSI), which will investigate the incident and identify the appropriate penalty for violations. However, in this course, you will be given a 72-hour period to come forward and admit to cheating before you are reported to OSI.

Students are expected to maintain the highest standards of academic integrity. All work submitted must be original and properly cited. Plagiarism, cheating, or any form of academic dishonesty will result in immediate consequences as outlined in the university's academic integrity policy.

Georgia Tech aims to cultivate a community based on trust, academic integrity, and honor. Students are
expected to act according to the highest ethical standards. For information on Georgia Tech's Academic
Honor Code, please visit https://catalog.gatech.edu/policies/honor-code/ or
https://catalog.gatech.edu/rules/18/.
We will report all incidents of suspected dishonesty to the Office of Student Integrity (OSI). Please
refer to the Course policy guidelines document for further details. We actively scan project submissions
with automated means to detect cases of plagiarism or unauthorized collaboration.