Academic Integrity Policy

Charter of Academic Integrity in the E-Training Environment

The smart start training center’s policy  regarding academic integrity in the e-training environment is based on academic values, the concept of honesty and respect for the intellectual efforts of students and members of the training body, which oblige students and trainers to assume this responsibility and enhance this value and this charter, which concerns the conduct of trainees enrolled in remote training and ensure their commitment to the company’s policy in this regard, which does not tolerate fraud, impersonation or any violation of academic integrity.

First: Techniques used to prevent fraud and impersonation

Design tests that combine randomness and justice, so that questions are selected from pre-prepared banks and stores to cover learning outcomes, and the way they are answered depends not on preservation and recovery, but on understanding and absorption.

Focus on projects and oral tests in evaluation

Uniqueness of each digital test model, and the adoption of new questions that are not pre-resolved and their answers are not available in books and references.

Preventing questions from being filmed, communicating with others, or outsourcing is not allowed.

The trainee may be asked to turn on his video camera, to verify the identity of the trainee and may be asked to present his or her personal identity.

He may ask to pass the camera around the room to make sure there is no one else in the room, and there are no support materials, mobiles or anything like that.

Prevent wearing headphones and accessories

Comprehensive awareness campaign for students and training staff with regulations and penalties for controlling fraud and impersonation

The use of technical solutions as a browser prevents the opening of any other programs on the desktop during the test, and prevents copying the exam.

Adjust any events that violate permitted behaviors that are reviewed by the training staff, academic integrity experts and technology experts to ensure the quality of the evaluation process.

View the screen instructions to conduct the test in front of the trainee during the test and include all regulations, laws and penalties for fraud and impersonation during the test.

Second: Irregularities:

Impersonate another person in order to apply instead to enter the test or agree with another to apply instead to enter the test.

Committing any conduct that would adversely affect the conduct of the test, whether it is intended to cheat on the test or for any other reason.

Misconduct towards any of his colleagues or test supervisors

Get or try to get test questions before you start it in any way.

See or try to see and answer test questions before the test supervisor authorizes the test supervisor to start the test, answer or try to answer questions after the test time has expired.

Any case of test fraud, for example:

Unauthorized communication (from the test supervisor) with others

See or start seeing any sources of information, whether paper or electronic (such as books and notes) during the test.

Disclose or try to disclose test questions or answers to another trainee.

Help or try to help another trainee commit any test fraud.

Try to use any unauthorized materials, means or devices during testing (e.g. mobile devices, registration, or papers related to the test material).

Shoot test questions or take out test questions by any means.

7. Failure to comply with test instructions or test supervisor relating to the organization of the test procedure, such as refusing to open the test applicant’s personal camera or not stopping contrary conduct alerted by the test supervisor.

 

Third: Sanctions:

If any violation of the test rules is committed, the offender shall be subject to one or more of the following penalties:

Send a warning to deny him access to the test.

Consider the applicant to fail in some or all of the test materials.

Cancel the applicant’s results in previous tests.

Denial of access to tests for one or more cycles so that the duration of the deprivation does not exceed a maximum of one year.

 

 

 

 

Fourth: investigative procedures and sentencing:

 

The following procedures follow the following procedures in the investigation and the penalty for the offender:

 

If the offence is a case of fraud or related to the organization of the test procedure, the test supervisor will edit a case proof record detailing the details and ask the offender/offenders and those who witnessed the incident to write their statements about it to be submitted to the Test Committee. The minutes are signed by the test supervisor and the test supervisory team, and the test supervisory team will submit the record with the statements of the concerned to the chairman of the testing committee within four working days of the date of the violation.

The Test Committee investigates the violation, the commission of inquiry prepares an investigation report, and the commission submits the investigation minutes and recommendations to the testing committee on the extent to which the violation and the appropriate punishment are proven.

If the violation is established, the Test Committee shall submit the findings and recommendations of the Commission of Inquiry, coupled with the evidence of the case, to the relevant department.

Sentencing decisions are issued by the relevant administration, and if the administration’s decision to impose the sentence becomes final, those who have been sentenced are notified of the offence committed and the sentence imposed on them.

 

 

Academic Integrity

The policy of the Face Training Center with regard to academic integrity in the e-training environment is based on academic values and the concept of honesty and respect for the intellectual efforts of trainees and members of the training body, which obliges trainees and trainers to assume this responsibility and enhance this value and this charter, which deals with the conduct of trainees enrolled in remote training and ensure their commitment to the company’s policy in this regard, which does not tolerate fraud, impersonation or any violation of academic integrity.

 

The academic integrity is expected and required to be followed in all transactions within the center by all its employees to achieve a degree of learning to ensure the qualification of the trainee as required, where the values of academic integrity in the center focus on honesty and respect for the intellectual efforts of individuals and all employees of the center should adhere to this responsibility and promote these values.

 

The Centre never allows fraud, forgery, plagiarism or any other violation of the Academic Integrity Act as follows:

 

Fraud or falsification of information in any electronic academic work.

Impersonate training information using the work of others.

Obtain or provide unauthorized assistance in any other academic work.

The Center works to achieve academic integrity in remote e-training programs by:

 

Mentoring, mentoring and urging new trainees to complete the required lessons.

Respect for intellectual property.

Attendance       and interaction with the trainer during training times.

• Solve the tests themselves as they have learned without outsourcing.

Access to the platform on time and at his own account.

Enter the correct information on the platform to obtain his certificate of attendance for the courses

Forms of violation of training and academic integrity as a motive for plagiarism

There are many forms of conduct that violate the standards and principles of academic integrity, and some of them are mentioned here, but not exclusively, as follows:

Fraud: From the transfer of the work of others and the unauthorized use of any observations, information and materials in academic examinations, training materials or other tasks assigned to the trainer and trainee.

Intellectual theft/literary plagiarism: quotation of the phrases and works of others, unauthorized use of scientific blogs or any information, except by referring to them as a reference.

Misuse of academic assistance: An intern exploits the work of a colleague who provides him with training assistance in good faith, such as being transferred from a report obtained by the trainee or from an old test, without informing him.

Exploitation of cooperation: The trainee’s reliance on another trainee to perform a joint duty/work, or the exploitation of another trainee to perform individual duties.

Forgery: The trainee changes the information available to him in a training test/duty, or shows him a false medical certificate in order to miss the attendance.

Impersonation of others: The trainee claims the status of others within the class or online platform, in a test, or in any kind of training duties. In this case, the impersonator trainee and the impersonator are punished.

Other impersonations: Trainees who sell lectures, notes, papers or training bags while registering at the center, or who accept a financial fee for their work to third parties, without prior written approval from the administration, will be subject to disciplinary action. Trainees who submit forms or petitions for false or misleading information will also be subject to disciplinary action and will be asked to withdraw from the pilot program without any compensation.

 

Fraud prevention procedures

The Center uses a model to follow up the performance and activities of trainees on electronic systems through several electronic procedures using electronic systems assigned to this end, to work and integrated to report on the follow-up of trainees.

⇐ control of the     violation of the school controls adopted at the Centre: the Department records all available Internet data used by the trainee to access electronic systems, and checks the trainee’s entry from another place other than the user, thus revealing the trainee who resorts to offices to perform activities and duties instead.

The work of trainees is examined not based on the personal efforts of the trainees and taken what is necessary.

Trainees are monitored on electronic systems and record the full attendance time of lectures.

Procedures and penalties for these offences:

 

One or two penalties are applied with a maximum of the following penalties:

 

Alert and alert the offending trainee in writing or by email.

Temporary denial of any training activity at the center.

Cancel the registration of the trainee and stop his training activity with the center

Denying the offending trainee the certificate associated with fraud or fraud.