Information for Students about the Honor Code

What is a Violation?

PLEASE NOTE: Academically dishonest behaviors include, but are not limited to, the brief examples described below. If you're concerned about what constitutes academic dishonesty we encourage you to speak with your professor or if you do not feel comfortable doing so please contact the honor code office at honor@colorado.edu.

Plagiarism: Portrayal of another’s work or ideas as one’s own.

• Buying a paper off the internet and turning it in as if it were your own work
• Improperly citing references on a works cited page or within the text of a paper

Cheating: Using unauthorized notes or study aides, allowing another party to do one’s work/exam as one’s own, or submitting the same or similar work in more than one course without permission from the course instructors.

• Taking an exam for another person
• Looking off another person’s exam for answers
• Bringing and using unauthorized notes during an exam

Fabrication: Falsification or creation of data, research or resources, or altering a graded work without the prior consent of the course instructor.

• Making up a reference for a works cited page
• Making up statistics or facts for academic work

Aid of Academic Dishonesty: Intentionally facilitating plagiarism, cheating, or fabrication

• Helping another person do a take home exam
• Giving answers to an exam
• Collaborating with others on work that is supposed to be completed independently

Lying: Deliberate falsification with the intent to deceive in written or in verbal form as it applies to an academic submission.

Bribery: Providing, offering, or taking rewards in exchange for a grade, an assignment or the aid of academic dishonesty.

• Paying a student to do work on your behalf
• Attempting to pay a teacher to change a grade

Threat: An attempt to intimidate a student, staff, or faculty member for the purpose of receiving an unearned grade or in an effort to prevent the reporting of an Honor Code violation.