According to the Office of Judicial Affairs: "Scholastic dishonesty includes, but is not limited to cheating, plagiarism, collusion, facilitating academic dishonesty, fabrication, failure to contribute to a collaborative project and sabotage"².

Some of the ways one might commit scholastic dishonesty are as follows: (for more examples, please refer to the UTD Judicial Affairs website - http://www.utdallas.edu/judicialaffairs/UTDJudicialAffairs-Basicexamples.html)

• Coughing and/or using visual or auditory signals in a test
• Obtaining copies of an exam in advance
• Leaving information in the bathroom
• Destroying or removing library materials to gain an academic advantage
• Writing in blue books prior to an examination
• Stealing another student’s graded test and affixing one’s own name on it
• Recording two answers, one on the test form, one on the answer sheet
• Failing to turn in a test or assignment and later suggesting the faculty member lost the item
• Concealing notes on hands, caps, shoes, in pockets or the back of beverage bottle labels
• Changing a graded paper and requesting that it be regraded
• Stealing an exam for someone in another section or for placement in a test file
• Citing to false references or findings in research or other academic exercises
• Submitting a substantial portion of the same academic work more than once without written authorization from the instructor
• Passing information from an earlier class to a later class
• Having someone take your test for you
• Using an electronic device to store test information
• Transferring a computer file from one person's account to another

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