College of Graduate Studies

Academic Integrity Training

Academic Integrity Training Requirement for Doctoral Students
Academic Integrity Workshop Requirements
CITI Responsible Conduct of Research (RCR) Training Requirements

The Pathways to Success program offers a variety of academic integrity and ethics-centered opportunities, including workshops, CITI training modules, and other programming, open to all graduate students. Contact the College of Graduate Studies at [email protected] for any questions about academic integrity training.

Academic Integrity (RCR) Workshops

Academic Integrity (responsible conduct of research) workshops are offered every fall, spring, and summer semester as part of the Pathways to Success program at no cost and are open to all UCF graduate students and postdoctoral associates. These workshops cover a range of ethics topics including data management, authorship, copyright and image use, conflicts of interest, and more.

A full list of Academic Integrity workshop descriptions can be found here. Upcoming Academic Integrity workshops are listed on the Pathways to Success UCF Events Calendar and below.

Summer 2023 Academic Integrity Workshop Calendar

The Summer 2023 Academic Integrity (Responsible Conduct in Research) workshop schedule is below.

Please note: all summer academic integrity workshops will be held in hybrid format so attendees can attend in person (Trevor Colbourn Hall, room 208) or online. To attend online, fill out the registration at the links below. All online participants must have their camera on, be actively engaged, and be present for 80% of the workshop to receive attendance credit. We also recommend that you log into your Zoom account at https://ucf.zoom.us prior to accessing the meeting so you have the full range of features available. Please ensure that your display name is your full name.

Date & Time	Workshop Title
May 23: 1-3 pm	Doing the Right Thing: What Every Graduate Student Should Know About Research Misconduct – CORE
May 25: 1-3 pm	Ethical Decisions in Grad School and Beyond – ELECTIVE
May 30: 1-3 pm	Data Management: Perils of Fabrication, Falsification, and Confidentiality – CORE
June 1: 1-3 pm	Ethics: Personal Integrity as a Graduate Student – CORE
June 5: 3-5 pm	Authorship Credit Collaborative Scholarship and Research: Ethical Pitfalls to Avoid – CORE
June 6: 1-3 pm	Intellectual Property Rights – ELECTIVE
June 13: 10 am-12 pm	Ethics: Personal Integrity as a Graduate Student – CORE (please note: this workshop was moved from 6/14/2023)
June 15: 1-3 pm	A Practical Guide to Preventing Plagiarism – ELECTIVE
June 19: 3-5 pm	Doing the Right Thing: What Every Graduate Student Should Know About Research Misconduct – CORE
July 11: 1-3 pm	Ethical Decisions in Grad School and Beyond – ELECTIVE
July 18: 1-3 pm	Doing the Right Thing: What Every Graduate Student Should Know About Research Misconduct – CORE
July 19: 3-5 pm	Intellectual and Other Conflicts of Interest: Your Rights and Responsibilities – ELECTIVE
July 24: 3-5 pm	Authorship Credit Collaborative Scholarship and Research: Ethical Pitfalls to Avoid – CORE

CITI Training

The Collaborative Institutional Training Initiative (CITI) Program delivers online research ethics education training to members of the research community at more than a thousand U.S. and international institutions. Provided by the UCF Office of Research at no cost to researchers, CITI courses include the Responsible Conduct of Research (RCR) training required for all doctoral students as well as many other offerings.

UCF Center for Ethics

The UCF Center for Ethics aims to cultivate an institutional culture of ethical literacy, including a unified and ongoing conversation about ethics and a habit of practical application around ethics in research, teaching, and partnerships. The Pathways to Success program collaborates with the Center for Ethics to provide Academic Integrity workshops and other ethics-based programming.

Academic Integrity Training Requirement for Doctoral Students

All students admitted to doctoral programs must complete training designed to instill an awareness and understanding of the fundamental issues of academic integrity and the responsible conduct of research (RCR) in a manner consistent with federal regulations.

To achieve this objective, doctoral students must complete the following required training:

Four Academic Integrity workshops through Pathways to Success (or an approved alternative training offered as a program requirement; see list of exempt programs)
The online Collaborative Institutional Training Initiative (CITI) Responsible Conduct of Research (RCR) training in the appropriate disciplinary area (all doctoral students must complete the online CITI Responsible Conduct of Research training)

Both the CITI RCR training and workshops are provided at no cost. Please see the additional sections below for details and registration instructions.

Academic Integrity Training Deadline

There is no set deadline for the doctoral Academic Integrity training to be completed. However, all requirements must be completed prior to a doctoral student’s advancement to candidacy. In other words, you will not be able to enroll in dissertation hours until this requirement is met.

Tracking Academic Integrity Completion

Your Academic Integrity training requirements are listed on your myUCF To-Do list. Your To-Do list will be updated to remove a workshop listing after each session attended and your To-Do list will no longer show these requirements once all workshops are completed and your CITI RCR training has been confirmed. Please allow 2-3 days after any activity for updates to your To-Do list to appear.

Academic Integrity Workshop Requirements

Academic Integrity workshops are provided through the Pathways to Success program each semester.

You must take at least two CORE and two other CORE or ELECTIVE Academic Integrity workshops for a total of four workshops (workshops are indicated as CORE and ELECTIVE in their titles)
To receive workshop credit you must sign the attendance sheet
Students must attend the entire workshop session to receive completion credit
PLEASE NOTE: The Pressures to Plagiarize Webcourse required of all new incoming graduate students is not part of the UCF Academic Integrity training requirement for doctoral students
Academic Integrity workshops are listed on the Pathways to Success UCF Events Calendar and workshops are indicated as CORE or ELECTIVE in the workshop titles.

CITI Responsible Conduct of Research (RCR) Training Requirements

University policy requires all doctoral students to complete the CITI Responsible Conduct of Research (RCR) training.

You may complete the modules of the CITI RCR training in one session or in multiple sessions
Follow the instructions carefully to save your work and remember to check your progress as you go
You must email a copy of your Completion Certificate to [email protected] to confirm completion of the CITI RCR training
PLEASE NOTE: Other CITI trainings (e.g. Human Research) will not fulfill the CITI RCR requirement; consult with your faculty adviser and the UCF Institutional Review Board (IRB) for guidance on other CITI trainings which may be required for specific research projects

Creating Your CITI Account

Go to citiprogram.org
Follow the instructions on the CITI Main Menu to create a user account for yourself, giving special attention to these fields
Select “University of Central Florida” as your institution
For your name, enter the same First Name and Last Name that displays in your myUCF Student Center (my.ucf.edu)
On the second registration page, provide the information requested by UCF, giving special attention to these fields
Institutional email address – Enter your Knights email address, which is your official UCF student email address
UCF Employee Number – Enter your UCF ID, example: a1234567)
On the Select Curriculum page, scroll down to Question 3, Responsible Conduct of Research (RCR), and select the course in the appropriate disciplinary area for you.
On the next registration page, you may also affiliate yourself with another institution, if you wish. Otherwise, select No.
You have now completed CITI registration.
To access the course, go to the My Courses section of the CITI Main Menu and you should see the Responsible Conduct of Research course.
To start the course, click the red Enter link in the Status column.

If you completed your CITI RCR training at another institution recently, you must have your CITI account affiliated with UCF before submitting your training completion certificate by contacting the UCF Office of Research at [email protected].