Woodcrest Junior High

Woodcrest Junior High School is committed to maintaining the highest levels of honesty and integrity. Students have a responsibility to themselves and the school community to uphold these standards. Cheating, in any form, or helping others to cheat undermines the educational mission of Woodcrest Jr. High School and will be dealt with firmly. Cheating includes, but is not limited to:

• Using dishonest, deceptive, or fraudulent means to obtain or attempt to obtain credit for academic work.
• Giving notes, study aids, electronic devices, or helping another student to complete a test, a project, or other assignment in a way other than that expressly permitted by the teacher or being the beneficiary of such help.
• Looking at or accessing another student's test, answer sheet, or other materials.
• Copying or allowing another student to copy a test, homework, or other coursework which is not intended to be collaborative.
• Providing login credentials to others to access work, assessments, etc.
• Using AI generated material as your own.

Plagiarizing Materials- Plagiarism is taking the specific or general substance of another person's work and offering it as one's own work without giving credit to the original author. Plagiarizing includes omitting quotation marks for directly quoted material, omitting bibliographic references either in the text or on a source page appended at the end of the assignment, or paraphrasing an author without giving credit to that author for the use of his or her ideas. Paraphrasing, conversely, is the student's use of an author's idea by rewording that author's original text. The consequences are outlined below.

Certain types of cheating, such as tampering with grades or grading software, or disseminating test or homework answers to a large audience, may immediately warrant “third offense” consequences including possible expulsion.