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I would be wary about reducing the range of penalties. The circumstances could be anything from letting a student look at some work to see the sort of thing that's required (especially if it got a decent mark) to explicitly offering a previous piece of work for sale... ie anything from naivety to a business model. Proving which may be difficult. The better approach would be to ensure that the assessments preclude the possibility of this sort of thing arising in the first place (ie design it out, rather than regulate it out). Paul Cecil Deputy Faculty Officer (Standards & Quality Management) Faculty of Education & Sport University of Brighton Room E345, Checkland Building Falmer BN1 9PH 01273 641851 (int: x1851) Please note: my working week is Tuesday-Friday -----Original Message----- From: Plagiarism [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Lynn Shaw Sent: 08 August 2011 16:23 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: Collusion definitions and penalties My view is that the L6 student is culpable and should be penalised. But I do not think they should lose their credits as the work they submitted was their own. Perhaps this is a case for a fine of some sort rather than an academic penalty. Lynn J Shaw Academic Registrar, Professional Higher Education -----Original Message----- From: Plagiarism [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Claire Hughes Sent: Monday, August 08, 2011 3:50 PM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Collusion definitions and penalties Dear Colleagues We are currently completing our annual review of our Procedures relating to student academic misconduct and we have been pondering our collusion definition. Currently it reads: "Where the student/s knowlingly or negligently allows their work to be incorporated in, or represented as, the work of another student; or, the collaboration without official approval between two or more students in the presentation of work, which is submitted as the work of a single student." This year we have seen a case where the collusion took place with a student on Level 5 but the "copied" work was from a Level 6 student who had already passed the unit and then lent their copy to the Level 5 student. Currently we would give them the same penalty and the Level 6 student would have to resit the work and lose the previously gained credits. We are considering changing this to either not include the higher level student, as they would not be gaining extra credit, or making the penalty more leniant and wondered how our other colleagues deal with this in their institutions. Once I have received replies I will collate the answers and re-post them. Many thanks Claire Hughes, Student Conduct, Complaints and Appeals Team, Academic Services, Southampton Solent University. ************************************************************************ * You are subscribed to the JISC Plagiarism mailing list. To Unsubscribe, change your subscription options, or access list archives, visit http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/PLAGIARISM.html ************************************************************************ * This email and the information it contains may be privileged and/or confidential. 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