Academic integrity is the honesty that you have in your studies and assessments. It is a key foundation to being a member of the University’s academic community.

Having academic integrity shows that you respect the work of other people, such as their:

• Ideas
• Words
• Image
• Code

You do this by acknowledging who and what has influenced you own work and thinking.

Academic integrity is informed by multiple values, including:

• Honesty
• Trust
• Responsibility
• Fairness
• Respect
• Courage

As a student, it is your responsibility to ensure you’re being academically honest.

For other information related to copyright, please visit Academic integrity and copyright.

Academic Integrity Course

When you become a student with the University of Auckland, you will automatically be enrolled into the online Academic Integrity Course or ACADINT A01. This includes if you’re:

• A Study Abroad or Exchange student
• Doctoral candidate

This course is a requirement for your studies and has a 0-point value.

If you’re a returning student, you will not be asked to retake this course.

This course is designed to help you know about academic integrity through six distinct modules.

You must complete all modules and get 100% in each module.

For more information, please visit:

Talk to your lecturers, course coordinators, and tutors

Your lecturers, course coordinators, and tutors are always happy to answer questions you may have around academic integrity, referencing, when and what to reference, among other things.

You can find their contact details on Canvas. 

Resources for referencing

You can find referencing information at Te Tumu Herenga | Libraries and Learning Services. 

You can also access Referen©ite which is a tool designed to help you with referencing, including guidelines on how you should acknowledge other people’s work. 

Te Tumu Herenga | Libraries and Learning Services workshops

You can access workshops through Te Tumu Herenga | Libraries and Learning Services.

Turnitin is used by the University to check your submitted work. Unless specified, your coursework uploaded to Canvas will be put through Turnitin to check for similarities with other published work. 

Academic integrity is one part of the expectations that you have as a student at the University of Auckland.   

If you’re unsure you’re meeting academic integrity, don’t be afraid to ask for help. You can ask your:

• Lecturer
• Course coordinator
• Tutor
• Subject librarian

One of the University’s roles under the Student Charter is to support you in developing the skills that you need to succeed in your studies and future careers. Academic integrity is one of these skills.

The University aims to foster and preserve your scholarly values and help you maintain intellectual integrity in your studies.

Breaching academic integrity is also known as

• Academic dishonesty
• Committing academic misconduct

If you’re caught breaching academic integrity, you will be penalised for academic misconduct under the Student Academic Conduct Statute. All breaches are recorded in our central Academic Integrity Management System. 

For more information on breaches of academic integrity, including how they are managed, please visit Breaches of academic integrity in coursework.

*The University recognises that your information is confidential, especially around cases of academic misconduct. Access to view records within the central Register of Deliberate Academic Misconduct is strictly limited to staff authorised to access this information.

The main purpose of AIMS is to allow Academic Heads and the Discipline Committee to identify students who have already been involved in academic misconduct.

This is because

• Penalties for second offences will be more severe
• Second offences which could be judged minor may be treated as major because of the prior record

AIMS will only be searched for individual student records if it has been determined

• An offence has been committed
• It has been authorised by a student
• For record management purposes