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2. TEACHING FOR UMUCFaculty members should contact their academic administrator for guidance if a grading dispute arises. ThroughPolicy 130.80 Procedures for Review of Alleged Arbitrary and Capricious Grading (http://www.umuc.edu/policy/academic/aa13080.shtml), UMUC has provided a means for students to seek review of final course grades allegedto be arbitrary or capricious.2.9 Handling Academic Dishonesty and PlagiarismAll members of the university community share the responsibility for academic integrity. Faculty members areexpected to establish classroom environments conducive to the maintenance of academic integrity. Students alsoare expected to maintain and demonstrate academic integrity. Students can avoid unintentional plagiarism bycarefully following accepted scholarly practices. Notes taken for papers and research assignments should accuratelyrecord sources of material to be cited, quoted, paraphrased, or summarized, and students should acknowledgethose sources in text and in a references list. Failure to do so may result in a charge of plagiarism.Academic dishonesty—including cheating, fabrication, and plagiarism—is defined in UMUC Policy 150.25Academic Dishonesty and Plagiarism, which can be found at http://www.umuc.edu/policy/academic/aa15025.shtml. It is critically important that faculty members read this policy before dealing with a student suspected ofacademic dishonesty or plagiarism. Faculty are also encouraged to review the USM Policy III-1.00 on Faculty,Student, and Institutional Rights and Responsibilities for Academic Integrity (http://www.usmd.edu/Leadership/BoardOfRegents/Bylaws/SectionIII/III100.html) for additional information on certain rights and responsibilitiesthat pertain to faculty and students within the academic community.UMUC has contracted with TurnItIn.com to be used as a resource for evaluating suspected plagiarism. Facultywho choose to use this service must do so through the UMUC contract. Additional information, includinginstructions for obtaining an account for this service and wording to be included in the course syllabus when afaculty member uses the service, is available at http://www.umuc.edu/library/turnitin.shtml.2.10 Copyright and Fair Use in the ClassroomAudio, video, images, or text documents used in the WebTycho classroom may be copyrighted, even when noexplicit statement of copyright exists. Faculty members can avoid copyright violations and legally use copyrightedmaterials if they understand and comply with the fair use guidelines. Before linking to or placing audio,video, images, or text in the WebTycho classroom, faculty members are advised to consult the overview of copyrightand fair use provided by Information and Library Services at http://umuc.edu/library/copy.shtml. They arealso encouraged to use the Information and Library Services databases for course materials whenever possible;guidelines for appropriately linking to database materials are available at http://www.umuc.edu/library/database/linking.shtml. Faculty members may submit a request to Information and Library Services to create reservedreadings for their WebTycho class at https://prospero.umuc.edu/cgi-bin/ereserves/eres_start.pl.Additional resources for understanding the evolving field of copyright and fair use issues are available from theCenter for Intellectual Property at http://www.umuc.edu/cip. Guidance on copyright and fair use provided byeither Information and Library Services or the Center for Intellectual Property should be regarded as generalinformation only and not as a substitute for legal advice from a licensed attorney.January 2011 www.asia.umuc.edu 12