Date: 19/ 02/ 2024

ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL INTEGRITY

Dear student

Thank-you again for choosing SANTS in order to become the best teacher you can be! We trust that you are busy
studying your Curriculum and Learning Guides (CLGs) and completing all of your assignments. The due date for
Assignment 1 is around the corner this Thursday, 22 February 2024.

Each semester we send this type of letter to remind you about the importance of academic integrity. As future
teachers and role models, you are expected to be women and men of integrity who act ethically and professionally
at all times, especially when you are engaged in your workplace integrated learning (teaching practice) at schools
and when you submit assessments online via the MySANTS platform.

Due to our programmes being offered through distance education, we encourage students to form study groups
to help them understand the content and processes involved, in addition to asking lecturers for assistance via the
Enquiry platform on MySANTS. However, the final completion and submission of assessments online must
always be done privately, without contact with anyone, in exactly the same way one would write for a sit-
down assessment.

REMEMBER: ➢ Always submit your own assessments, based on your own work and ideas
and, where relevant, including proper referencing.

➢ Never allow someone to submit work on your behalf (whether for free or for payment), nor submit work on
behalf of someone else.

➢ Unless you have been authorised to do so specifically in an assessment, also do not make use of generative
Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools, such as ChatGPT, to provide answers as if they are your own. This would
be dishonest.

Students found with evidence of a severe irregularity in an assessment, will unfortunately forfeit at least
half of the total marks attained for that assessment. Should the same student be found guilty again of a
severe irregularity, all of the marks of the relevant new assessment will be forfeited.

At SANTS, severe irregularities in assessments refer to irregularities that involve:

• The copying from or duplication with answers in another assessment, submitted for the same cycle;
• Generative artificial intelligence such as through ChatGPT;
• Excessive plagiarism, affecting the majority of answers or marks of an assessment.

Thank-you for being a person of integrity and working to earn your qualification honestly! Have a prosperous
semester ahead!

Sincerely

Judite Ferreira-Prévost Professor Ina Joubert

Assessment and Student Affairs Committee Chairperson Executive Academic Director