Academic Integrity

The College implements a progressive and incremental approach to penalties, which are based on the severity of the incident. If a student receives multiple offences, typically, the academic penalties will increase. As of May 2024, if a student has already received a warning or received an offence for their first academic incident, students can only receive an offence for any subsequent academic incidents.

All academic incidents, warnings or offences, do not appear on student transcripts.

Category 1

• Rework and resubmit the assessment. The new submission is graded and an appropriate late penalty is applied.
• Rework and resubmit the assessment up to a passing mark (if not submitted by faculty assigned date, mark = 0).
• Partial marks on the assessment with no opportunity to resubmit.
• Loss of an alpha grade on the assessment.
• Zero when the assessment value is less than 10%.

Category 2

• Fail on a pass/fail assessment.
• Loss of an alpha grade in the course.
• Zero when the assessment value is between 10-19%.

Category 3

• Zero when the assessment value is greater than 20%.
• Zero in the Course.
• Other.

Category 4

• Suspension from Conestoga College.
• Discontinuance from Conestoga College.

• Copyright Infringement.
• Not maintaining security of work.
• Improper behaviour during a testing situation.
• Loaning work to someone else.
• Unauthorized collaboration.
• Copying from others or self-copying.
• Unauthorized aids and assistance.
• Unscholarly behaviour.
• Facilitated Academic Misconduct

Please be aware that students may also be issued an offence for one of these academic incidents. As of May 2024, students can only receive a warning as their first academic incident. If a student receives an offence for their first academic incident, they can only receive offences moving forward.

• Aiding and Abetting.
• Contract Cheating.
• Misrepresentation and Fraud.
• Plagiarism.