<p>Hi, please I ask you guys to be comprehensive...
I am taking a course online as an independent student( I am current enroll in another institution and I am not a degree-seeking on this university where I took the online course),I just took the course to fulfill a requirement.
As part of the course I needed to submit homework,but none of the homework would factor to your final grade, it was just a matter of evaluation of your progress. I already completed my first exam and had a good score, as I needed to complete the course ASAP, I copied some part of the homework from an online manual.
I discovered that my professor discovered and is charging me for academic dishonesty.
I know what I did and now I feel guilty.But I would like to know if you guys have an idea of what could happen, in severe cases could I be expelled or suspended( I am not a student, I am just taking this course!)?future plans could be harmed by this?( jobs or graduate degree)?Moreover they can tell my current institution( I did not need to say where I study when I register)? They said if I sign that I am guilty they will give me a XF( Failure for academic dishonesty), but after the suspension time I can ask to take the X out and turn into a F.</p>
<p>What is the requirement you took the course to fulfill?</p>
<p>Did you professor have a stated policy in the syllabus regarding academic honesty? Generally, that policy refers you to the institution’s code of conduct and the options available for the professor to deal with this issue. You should review that carefully.</p>
<p>I am perplexed by your statement that you aren’t a student, that you are just taking the course. Just because you have a concurrent enrollment doesn’t mean you aren’t a student in the eyes of that institution both in terms of rights and responsibilities.</p>
<p>The professor has only linked the academic honesty code, but it is too general.
When I said I was not a student, I meant that I was not a regular student,since this course is open enrollment.But I understand that I should have read more carefully the code. I used assistance because I thought the homework were only for your own evaluation of progress, since they do not count to your final grade ,and I usually study from the solved exercises before I try new ones.
Do you think that if I try to explain that they could at least understand my viewpoint?</p>
<p>You don’t need to explain. The prof knows what you did and doesn’t care why. </p>
<p>One of my kids was grader/TA for an upper level science class and was constantly warning the students NOT to use the solutions manual for the textbook. (In large part because a lot of the answers were just plain wrong, but also because copying homewark is a academic dishonesty violation–aka plagarism.) After issuing three general reminders to the class during her lectures, and after the prof reiterated that copying homework is considered plagarism, they brought academic dishonesty charges against 4 students. Even though homework was for the student’s benefit only (meaning it wasn’t counted in the final grade, although faithfully turning it in might have gotten the student a nudge upward for the final grade), the Dean upheld all charges. It doesn’t matter how the homework is used, or whether it’s for a grade or not. Any work you turn in you’re signifiying it’s your original work. The 4 accused student— all 4 failed the class and had a academic dishonesty violation notation added to their transcripts.</p>
<p>As for studying from solved problems–you could have looked at the solutions and then created your own solution based on the answer you found to turn in. That’s legitimate. But copying identical line by line answers–that’s not.</p>
<p>Sadly if you cheated by coping answers, even ungraded, from a solutions manual you are on the hook for whatever the college gives you. Most colleges take any kind of violation of the honor code seriously. S1’s college is automatic dismisal for breaking the honor code.</p>
<p>Honestly, WHY you plagiarized is not important. As an adult you should know that what you did is dishonest. There is no academic institution in the world where it is OK to copy another person’s work and hand it in as your own. Whether it was going to count for a grade or not is irrelevant. If you wanted to had the information in as homework then you should have cited it. My middle school student knows how to create an appropriate citation.</p>
<p>What is the professor proposing? If I were you I would ask if to be permitted to withdraw from the class.</p>
<p>Now that I can face the consequences I understand what I did was wrong, even that I tried to explain that I had less malevolence that a student who plagiarized to get a better grade, I did, even that in my concept it was less wrong, is still wrong. What I am worried about are the consequences that can happen,do you think they could expelled me or suspended? If it was allowed me to only receive a XF grade or withdraw I would be fine, since they have a grade forgiveness,after the time you were suspended or before graduation they said they take it out the X from the XF and turn the grade as a F.
In a worst scenario case, do you think they would call or notice my current institution? Could I be expelled from my current institution for academic dishonesty in another place?</p>
<p>They could do all of those things or none of them. Why don’t you set up a meeting with the professor?</p>
<p>You are still trying to rationalize what you did by saying that you had “less malevolence” than someone else. It doesn’t matter.</p>
<p>You cheated, live with it.</p>
<p>An employer will ask for transcripts from any school where you’re using credit toward the degree you’re claiming to have/be working towards. So long as you are not using credit from this particular school toward your degree already there is probably nothing they can do to hurt you. Maybe they can fail you for this course, but nothing else. You’re fine. </p>
<p>Retake the course either at your school or another school, and DON’T CHEAT AGAIN.</p>