Academic Integrity Training

Academic Integrity Training

Academic Integrity Training

Academic Integrity Training Requirements

All newly admitted UCF graduate students must complete training designed to create awareness and understanding of fundamental issues related to ethics, academic integrity, and the responsible conduct of research (RCR) in accordance with university guidelines.

This required training includes:

For all graduate students: The online, asynchronous ethics Webcourse, Pressures to Plagiarize.

For all doctoral students: Two online, synchronous ethics/RCR workshops on Personal & Professional Integrity and Ethics & Research Integrity.


Academic Integrity Training: Updates

UCF’s academic integrity training policy recently changed. Additional information about this policy can be found in the Graduate Catalog under Master’s and Doctoral Program Policies. All requirements will be tracked in your myUCF Student Center under the To Do list (please allow time for updates, as the To Do list may not reflect these changes immediately).

As of the Fall 2024 Semester

Ethics Workshop Schedule – Fall 2024

All ethics workshops are held in online format through Zoom. Advanced registration through the links below is required to attend.

All participants are required to have their camera on (if possible), be actively engaged, and be present for 80 percent 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 note that it can take 2-3 business days for your myUCF To Do list to reflect the workshop completion.

Students are strongly encouraged to take these workshops in order (Part 1 then Part 2), but they are not required to be completed in order.

WorkshopDayDateTimeRegistration
Part 1: Personal and Professional IntegrityTues1/21/202510 am – 12 pmClick for Zoom Registration
Part 1: Personal and Professional IntegrityWed1/29/20255:30 -7:30 pmClick for Zoom Registration
Part 1: Personal and Professional IntegrityFri2/7/202510 am – 12 pmClick for Zoom Registration
Part 2: Ethics and Research IntegrityTues2/11/202510 am – 12 pmClick for Zoom Registration
Part 1: Personal and Professional IntegrityWed2/18/20252 -4 pmClick for Zoom Registration
Part 2: Ethics and Research IntegrityThurs2/27/20252 -4 pmClick for Zoom Registration
Part 2: Ethics and Research IntegrityWed3/5/20255:30 – 7:30 pmClick for Zoom Registration
Part 2: Ethics and Research IntegrityFri3/14/20252 -4 pmClick for Zoom Registration
Part 1: Personal and Professional IntegrityTues3/25/202512 – 2 pmClick for Zoom Registration
Part 2: Ethics and Research IntegrityWed4/2/202510 am – 12 pmClick for Zoom Registration
Part 1: Personal and Professional IntegrityThurs4/10/202510 am – 12 pmClick for Zoom Registration
Part 2: Ethics and Research IntegrityThurs4/15/20251:30 – 3:30 pmClick for Zoom Registration

Deadlines

Pressures to Plagiarize

All graduate students must complete the Pressures to Plagiarize Webcourse before the end of their first semester. Students are automatically enrolled in the course soon after they accept their acceptance to their UCF graduate program.

Graduate students who do not complete Pressures to Plagiarize by their first semester will not be eligible to register for courses in their next semester.

For information on Pressures to Plagiarize, please see graduate.ucf.edu/plagiarism

Ethics Workshops

Part 1: Personal and Professional Integrity and Part 2: Ethics and Research Integrity must be completed in the student’s first two years (six semesters). 

A doctoral student who has not completed the required ethics workshops within their first two years (six semesters) will not be eligible to register for courses in subsequent semesters.

Ethics Workshop Descriptions

The following workshops were created by the UCF Center for Ethics to serve as an introduction to issues of responsible conduct of research and help doctoral students have a fundamental understanding of their ethical obligations as graduate students.

Part 1: Personal and Professional Integrity

In this discussion-driven workshop, we examine the concept of integrity and its role in shaping our behaviors and attitudes as individuals. We compare personal integrity with research integrity and academic integrity through examples, case studies, and conceptual lenses. Our goal is sustained critical application of ethical frameworks and concepts from this workshop in support of good decisions across the widely varied contexts you encounter in your work as graduate students.

Part 2: Ethics and Research Integrity

This workshop focuses on research integrity as an essential attribute of graduate students, in your dual role as student-learners and research leaders. We work through the core federally-defined areas of responsible conduct of research via examples and cases, articulating connections among ethical challenges across the research lifecycle. Our goal is to help you see interfaces among the rules of compliance and the principles of ethics, and to understand how both compliance and ethics must be at the forefront of decision making for professionals.

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 College of Graduate Studies collaborates with the Center for Ethics to provide Academic Integrity workshops and other ethics-based programming. Learn more about the Center for Ethics, as well as their Be Better Club at https://ethicscenter.research.ucf.edu