Resources and Support
Providing resources for an educative approach.
For students
Support and Services
The Office of the Ombudsperson for Students works with UBC community members to ensure students are treated fairly and can learn, work and live in a fair, equitable and respectful environment. The Ombuds Office can explain UBC’s academic integrity regulation and relevant processes and give confidential advice.
UBC Okanagan
UBCO Disability Resource Centre: The Disability Resource Centre (DRC) facilitates disability-related accommodations and programming initiatives to remove barriers for students with disabilities and ongoing medical conditions
UBCO Students’ Union Okanagan Advocacy Office: The SUO Advocacy Office provides guidance and assistance to UBC Okanagan undergraduate and graduate students who are experiencing a challenge or engaged in a conflict with their professor, Faculty, or UBC administration
UBCO Counselling and Mental Health: This portal offers in-person and online resources to promote student wellness in body, mind, and spirit
Academic Advising for all undergraduate students
UBC Vancouver
Academic Advising: Academic Advisors can help with course planning and degree requirements, understanding academic concessions, and checking graduation eligibility. They can also support students during personal challenges and connect students with other resources and services
UBCV Centre for Accessibility: The Centre for Accessibility facilitates disability-related accommodations and programming initiatives designed to remove barriers for students with disabilities and ongoing medical conditions in all aspects of university life
AMS Advocacy: AMS Advocates provide confidential support to students who are in conflicts with the University, including those related to academic integrity. Students can consult with AMS Advocates if they have questions or concerns about an academic misconduct allegation
GSS Peer Support: GSS Advocates provide confidential assistance to graduate students experiencing difficulties, including those related to academic integrity
UBCV Student Health and Wellbeing: Free and low-cost services and resources to support student health and wellbeing
UBCV Counselling Services: Counselling Services offers several programs and types of mental health support, including virtual, phone and in-person appointments
International Student Advising: International Student Advisors are here to support international students in their transition to life in Canada, and can help answer questions about visas, study permits and more
Academic Support
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For faculty
Syllabus Language
Syllabus Template
Providing a clear, accurate, and explicit statement about how you expect your students to do their work in your course with integrity, and why, is an easy way to establish a framework of integrity from the very beginning. A syllabus statement template (docx) is available to assist you in creating your syllabus statement.
Additional statements on academic integrity are available through the Centre for Teaching and Learning website. Checklists are also available to support course design assessment design, and syllabus development.
Curriculum MAP
UBC’s Curriculum MAP is a tool created to support course design, curriculum mapping, and the generation of syllabi that consistently follows Senate guidelines, including the Senate suggested language on Academic Integrity for both Okanagan and Vancouver campuses. Any UBC email address has access to this online tool.
Academic Integrity Senate Language
Open Education Resources
GenAI & Academic Integrity Learning Resources: These adaptable learning resources are collected and shared by the TLEF project, “We’re Only Human? Educative Frameworks for Artificial Intelligence, Academic Integrity, and Writing in the Faculty of Arts”. The resources are designed to help students understand when and how to engage with generative AI tools in written assignments.
Faculty Resources for Academic Integrity: This resource is a part of the TLEF-funded project, “Our Cheating Hearts?: Changing the Conversation through Academic Integrity Curriculum in First-Year Programs” (Laurie McNeill, 2017-2020). The project has been guided by the following goals:
- To shift from a focus on academic misconduct to academic integrity, and changing our language to suit;
- To identify the particular areas of ethical research that students find most challenging in first-year writing courses; and
- To developing explicit integrity curriculum–what we have called ‘pedagogies of integrity‘ in our courses that extended current course content.
Teaching Resources
UBC Okanagan
Centre for Teaching & Learning
Resources from the Ombudsperson – Academic Misconduct
10 Strategies to Minimize Cheating in an Online Environment
Scholarly Work on Academic Integrity
Academic Integrity Zoom Background
Learning with Honesty and Integrity – PowerPoint
UBC Vancouver
Academic Misconduct Guidelines and Checklists for Faculty – Office of the Ombudsperson for Students
Introduction to Academic Integrity Powerpoint – UBC Academic Integrity Working Group (Note: This resource was created in 2022 and is not actively updated)
Academic Integrity Faculty Resources – Chapman Learning Commons
Wellbeing in the Classroom Toolkit – UBC Wellbeing
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Networks
UBC faculty and staff are invited to join the BC Academic Integrity Network (BCAIN) to network and participate in provincial and national conversations on academic integrity. Each year, the BCAIN hosts a “BC Academic Integrity Day” which brings together stakeholders from across the province to discuss important academic integrity related issues.
Across Canada, several other provinces have academic integrity networks: Academic Integrity Council of Ontario (AICO), Alberta Council on Academic Integrity (ACAI) and the Manitoba Academic Integrity Network (MAIN).
UBC is a member of the International Center for Academic Integrity (ICAI). Members of the UBC community are invited to join in international discussions about academic integrity through the annual conference, blog, and the ICAI’s Canadian National Consortium.
