The following details are quoted directly from:

YRDSB Policy and Procedure #305.2 - Academic Honesty

4.1 Academic Honesty

For the purposes of this policy, academic honesty refers to students providing original evidence of their learning and appropriately acknowledging the work of others.

4.2 Academic Dishonesty

Academic Dishonesty includes, but is not limited to, the following:

1. copying from another student or permitting another student to copy material;

2. using aids, materials and assistance during times that are not approved by the teacher;

3. obtaining an unauthorized copy of a test or examination prior to the date and time of writing;

4. changing a grade/percentage mark of an evaluation;

5. preparing work, in whole or in part, with the expectation that this work will be used or submitted by another student for evaluation;

6. offering for sale or gratis assessment and evaluation tasks, in whole or in part, with the expectation that these works will be used or submitted by a student for evaluation; and

7. unauthorized entry into a computer file for the purpose of using, reading, changing, or deleting its contents, or the unauthorized transfer, in whole or part, of files for academic gain.

4.3 Intellectual Property (also defined in Board Policy #545.0, Intellectual Property, Copyright and Professional Services)

A creation of the mind produced by an individual or group of individuals of which the ownership or right to use may be legally protected by copyright or other legal forms of ownership. Intellectual Property can include inventions, literary and artistic works, designs and symbols, or other intangible assets.

4.4 Plagiarism

Plagiarism refers to representing someone else’s ideas, writing or other intellectual property as one’s own. Any use of the work of others, whether published, unpublished or posted electronically, attributed, or anonymous, must include proper acknowledgement. Plagiarism hinders learning and the development of learning skills and work habits. Forms of plagiarism include, but are not limited to, the use of the following without appropriate reference or citation:

1. someone else’s written and/or spoken idea, theory, or opinion;

2. misrepresenting co-authored or collaboratively created work as one’s own;

3. music, drawings, designs, dance, photography and other artistic or technical work created by someone else;

4. reproductions of tables, graphs or any other graphic element produced by someone else;

5. facts and information that are not generally known;

6. an unusual or distinctive phrase, a specialized term, a computer code, or quantitative data;

7. paraphrase or summary;

8. unauthorized entry into a computer file for the purpose of using, reading, changing, or deleting its contents, or the unauthorized transfer in whole or part of files for academic gain; and

9. submitting work prepared, in whole or in part, by another person or source (i.e. artificial intelligence) and representing that work as one’s own.​