Academic integrity

Work you hand in on ACADA must be your own, and what a creator teaches must be honest and sourced. You may use AI unless the creator says otherwise, and you say so when it wrote a substantial part. A certificate earned by cheating is withdrawn.

How it works

• An assignment submission must be yours. Everyone in the course can see each other's submissions: that is for learning from, not copying.
• Work in a group only where the assignment says so, and say who you worked with. Otherwise the work is individual.
• Nobody else does it for you: not a paid service, not a friend taking a quiz, not someone working through a course on your account.
• Quizzes can be retaken as often as you like, and every attempt is recorded. Do not post answers or answer keys anywhere on ACADA; your own reasoning about a question is fine.
• Anything you pin to your portfolio must be yours.
• Study groups, your own notes and explaining things to each other are all fine.

AI in your own work

Where AI wrote a substantial part of what you hand in, say so in the submission and say what it did. Using it to understand a topic, check your work or fix your grammar needs no note. A creator who forbids AI on an assignment says so in it, and can ask you to redo a submission that used it.

The ACADA Assistant is set up to explain, give examples and comment on your draft rather than write work you will hand in. See The ACADA Assistant.

What creators owe you

• Sources for facts, figures, quotations, code and images that are not their own. A lesson's sources are listed at the end of it, under Sources.
• A confirmed error fixed within 14 days. If one is still there after that, report the course: we may unlist it until it is fixed.
• A way to fix a mistake yourself. Select the passage, choose Correct, and say what is wrong and what it should say, with a source if you have one. The creator approves or declines it, and approving rewrites the lesson: see Correcting a lesson.

Certificates

A certificate records that you completed a course, and anyone can check it at acada.ac/verify. One earned by cheating is withdrawn, in clear cases only. You are emailed, the decision appears in Settings → Account standing, and the certificate verifies as withdrawn.

Completing the course again does not bring it back. An appeal that succeeds reissues it with the same number: see Withdrawn certificates.

Rules and limits

• Report a submission that is not its author's own with the flag on it, choosing Plagiarism or Not the student's own work. Answer sharing or paid cheating elsewhere goes to support@acada.ac.
• A breach follows the ladder in Enforcement and appeals: the submission removed, a warning, then restrictions.
• You can review a course once you have been enrolled 3 days and completed 20% of its lessons.

The full policy is Academic Integrity.