How can I avoid Academic Misconduct?

If you're not sure when writing an assignment, talk to your tutors.
Use the University Library and their Skills Plus guides
Regarding AI, please look at the assessment guidance on what is or not allowed. For some assessments students are not allowed to use any AI tools.
Do not use AI to pharaphrase your work, you may be able to use this for spelling or grammar checks, but you should not use AI to change the text you have created to a different format.
Always use the OneDrive to save your work. This protects your work if there are issues with your laptop. This also enables you to use different devices.
Save draft versions and keep these. This could help with any future allegations, as you can show the university the draft versions and the 'info' section within Microsoft products.
Keep any hand written notes as you can bring these to your Stage 1 meeting, if any allegations have been made.
Always reference from the start of your work and do not leave this until the end. This will prevent you from missing some of your references. Missing references can lead to an allegation of academic misconduct, even if these were missed off in error, an allegation can still be made. Even if your error was unintentional, this may still be considered as academic misconduct as students should be able to reference correctly.
If you live in shared accommodation with other students or share I.T equipment, you should password protect all your work
Online exams: For 24h or 72h takeaway papers, you should not engage in social media conversations about the exam, even if you have finished your paper. You should not be swapping information of the answers they put in their paper or ask questions. Treat this exam as if you were in an exam hall for the entire time allocated for the paper.
Please read any exam guidance sent by the University.

If you have any further questions or would like to speak to the Advice Team, please email su.advice@northumbria.ac.uk