SPH4U Section Plagiarism Policy

Throughout academic research and writing, you are likely to build on the ideas of other
people and organizations. Doing so helps add credibility to your academic work. Using
the ideas of respected individuals, institutions, and organizations is an excellent
academic practice. Plagiarizing the ideas and work of others is unacceptable.

Addressing Plagiarism

When submitting an assessment to dropbox, it is automatically run through a plagiarism

checker that compares your work to online sources. You may not be doing research in
this course, but you must independently complete the assessment questions and
calculations and not copy solutions found from online sources. You need to paraphrase
ideas correctly and ensure you are citing all sources.

Consequences of Plagiarism

The consequence(s) of submitting plagiarized work in this section is/are:

First Instance: After reviewing the following content pages from the VHS Student
Handbook, you will resubmit the questions or whole assessment containing the
plagiarized material with a 10% penalty.
● Academic Integrity
● Plagiarism
● Plagiarism Through File-Sharing Websites
● Ouriginal Tool

Second Instance: After reviewing the following content pages from the VHS Student
Handbook, you will resubmit the questions or whole assessment containing the
plagiarized material with a 50% penalty. I will notify the VHS Administration and your
parent(s)/guardian(s) of this instance.
● Academic Integrity
● Plagiarism
● Plagiarism Through File-Sharing Websites
● Ouriginal Tool

Third Instance: The questions or assessment will automatically be assigned a grade of

0%.
Virtual High School provides formatting and writing resources in the course introduction
to support students in gaining valuable writing skills so that they can avoid plagiarizing
the work of others. In my welcome email, I have also included a sample of how you
should format your solutions to help ensure that you complete the work independently.
Please contact me with any questions.