Many institutions, such as Harvard, Princeton, Yale and Dalhousie, have decided against using for this reason.Īfter students submit their assignment to, the assignments are matched against any other sources in the database, including assignments submitted in the past, internet sources, online books, newspapers and journals. Essentially, this service uses your intellectual property for profit. Once students submit their assignments, these assignments become a part of the database.Įducational institutions purchase service using student money and then help promote the database growth by asking students to submit their assignment to. Assignments are checked against other internet sources, including papers submitted to by students. is a for-profit service that scans assignments for potential sources of plagiarism. The FMUA will defend them as necessary.ĭid you know that you have the right to refuse to use ?
Your rights are enshrined in the University of Toronto’s Statement of Institutional Purpose.
You have the right to an accessible education. You have the right to protest the infringement of your rights. You have the right to think critically, to fight racism, sexism, ageism, ableism, oppression, ignorance, xenophobia, and hatred to a safe campus to challenge colonialism, backward pedagogy, and eurocentrism to speak and have a voice to the freedom of speech and all other freedoms and rights granted in the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. You have the right to retain intellectual property rights to your research. You have the right to the privacy of your grades. You have the right to receive all of your assignments once graded. You have the right not to have any major term test worth more than 25 per cent in the last two weeks of a course. You have the right to have no assignment worth 100 per cent of your final grade. You have the right to hand in neatly handwritten essays. You have the right to petition any mark for any test or assignment if you think that it was marked unfairly or incorrectly. You have the right to practice your faith without academic penalty and with reasonable accommodation from your professors.
You have the right to receive at least one significant mark before the last day that you can withdraw from a course. You have the right to vote on syllabus changes with your class after classes begin, with notice of the vote being provided at least one class prior.
You have the right to receive a course syllabus on the first day of class. You have the right to have reasonable access to your professors for consultation before and during a course. You have the right to challenge racist, homophobic, ableist, sexist, Eurocentric or otherwise oppressive teaching methods and material. The UTSU has compiled a list of academic rights that you have as students:
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