Online academic integrity
McGraw Hill UK & Europe supports institutions, instructors and students in the pursuit of academic integrity through our digital platforms and course design expertise.
Addressing academic integrity in higher education is essential in a time when course delivery approaches are rapidly changing. Institutions and educators must foster a culture of ethics as a proactive measure, while adapting their course design and assessment methods to curb academic dishonesty. Our platforms and digital assignments are designed to help you in this pursuit, while we also have a team looking into Generative AI and how we must continue to develop in order to guard against the threats and capitalise on the opportunities it poses.
At McGraw Hill, we’re committed to improving academic integrity:
- Internal analytics alert us to suspicious activity on our digital platforms
- Secured access to instructor resources
- A team dedicated to investigating piracy and integrity violations
Build student confidence
Avoid academic dishonesty before it starts.
- Simple, consistent layout of course resources and assignments.
- Focus on the most important learning outcomes to avoid overwhelming students.
- SmartBook readings and personalized quizzes to motivate and help students understand their grasp of course concepts.
Create high-integrity assignments
Leverage built-in policies and question types to design high-integrity assignments.
Leverage Connect's built-in policies and question types to design high-integrity assignments with security features such as time limits, disabled printing, question scrambling and algorithmic question types.
A variety of assessment types in Connect allow you to design different types of assessment that involve critical thinking and analysis, that could involve teamwork, or are low-stakes assessments for learning, so by cheating, students are only cheating themselves.
Meanwhile, in ALEKS, instructors can adjust assignment preferences in several ways to make them more or less locked down. From question randomisation to delayed auto-feedback to avoid answer sharing, to limiting the IP location for completion of the assessment, or disallowing access to ALEKS resources during the assignment period.
SIMnet builds further on this with encrypted data in project templates tracking file activity, such as whether it has been shared between students, which can then flag or disallow submissions with integrity violations.
Leverage real-world assessment
Use interactive assessment types to encourage original work and build students’ skills.
- Real-world, interactive assessments via application-based activities
- Video and audio presentation assessments with GoReact
- Hands-on assessment in Practice Marketing, Practice Operations and other simulation tools
See how our courseware platforms support academic integrity.
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Remote proctoring capabilities
McGraw Hill and Proctorio have partnered to deliver academic integrity tools within Connect, including browser-locking capabilities, student identity verification and remote proctoring.
Instructors get an at-a-glance view of potential academic integrity concerns with instant and detailed reporting. Proctorio’s basic suite of features is included with Connect at no extra cost.
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To promote a culture of ethics in your course, it is important to understand why students make the decision to engage in academic dishonesty and how to prevent it before it happens.