0.4.3: Academic Honesty Policy (Use of Online Translators and Artificial Intelligence)
Academic Integrity
This is a Spanish course; therefore, a large portion of it will be taught in Spanish. To benefit from this course and to acquire a greater understanding of the language, students are expected to use Spanish as much as possible when interacting in the class.
Students are required to use their own abilities in any writing or speaking activity or assignment. Dictionaries are allowed (ie looking up single words), but online translators or generative artificial intelligence programs are not allowed (ie translating entire sentences or paragraphs or generating entire sentences or paragraphs).
Academic integrity is the development of knowledge and/or skills without any form of cheating or plagiarism. All Butler students, faculty, staff, and administrators are responsible for upholding academic integrity.
Examples of cheating include, but are not limited to:
- Giving, receiving, or using unauthorized help on individual and group academic exercises such as papers, quizzes, tests, and presentations through any delivery system in any learning environment
- Impersonating another student
- Sharing content without authorization
- Fabricating data
- Altering academic documents including records, with or without the use of personal and college electronic devices
- Utilizing an AI-content generator (such as ChatGPT), language translators (such as Google translate), or computer algebra systems (such as Photomath) to complete coursework without proper attribution or authorization
Examples of plagiarism include but are not limited to:
- Representing or turning in someone else’s work without proper citation of the source
- Unacknowledged paraphrase, quotation, or complete use of someone else’s work in any form
- Citing work that is not used
- Taking credit for a group project without contributing to it
- Permitting another person and/or organization to write or contribute to any portion of an assignment, which includes hiring a person or a company to author essays and drafts and/or other assignments (research-based or otherwise)
- Utilizing ChatGPT and/or other artificial intelligence without proper attribution or authorization
- Submitting the same written assignment for more than one class without securing prior permission from instructors
- Failing to cite oneself as a source when using work submitted in other assignments at Butler Community College or other educational institutions, including high school.
Faculty members have discretion in handling student violations of the academic integrity policy, but faculty members must consult with their deans or administrators prior to removing a student from a course. Faculty members must inform students of violations and their consequences in writing. Students who violate the academic integrity policy will sustain academic consequences set by faculty members.
The consequences may include, but are not limited to, any of the following actions and may be imposed in any order or sequence:
- A warning.
- A zero or failing grade on the academic exercise with repetition of the exercise allowed for reduced or the same amount of original credit.
- A zero or failing grade on the exercise with no repetition allowed.
- A failing grade in the course and removal from it.
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Students who violate the academic integrity policy are also subject to administrative consequences, which may include, but are not limited to:
- Reduction or cancellation of a college scholarship.
- Suspension from college activities.
- Being barred from the course and/or program for a set time.
- Being barred from the course and/or program permanently.
- Suspension from the college for a set time.
- Expulsion from the college.
Students will be informed of administrative consequences in writing. Students have the right to appeal any decision or disciplinary action as outlined in the Academic Appeal Process.