Academic Integrity in the Digital Age

Hybrid and online courses—and in-person classes that integrate online platforms and tools—ask us to carefully consider our approaches to academic integrity. Employing certain pedagogies and teaching strategies (even if using Turnitin or Proctorio) can help us design discussion prompts, academic paper guidelines, and tests and quizzes that foster academic integrity and are ‘cheating’-resistant.

We’ll explore how to foster academic integrity and engagement while navigating digital teaching and learning. We’ll consider student-centered pedagogies and teaching strategies, and discuss best practices for using originality checkers and proctoring software. We’ll also name the trade-offs of these tools—including the risk of relying on platforms that may change or become unavailable.

We'll cover

• The meaning and implications of academic integrity
• When and how to use academic integrity tools responsibly
• Clear communication: policy language, expectations, and community norms
• Helping students build skills around academic integrity
• Which Canvas settings and course design strategies promote academic integrity
• Alternatives to high-stakes proctoring and gotcha approaches
• Applying pedagogies and teaching strategies that foster academic integrity and student engagement

You'll leave with

• A set of best practices for using academic integrity tools (when appropriate)
• Ready-to-adapt ideas for assignments, quizzes, and discussions that promote honest, authentic, and engaged learning.

Who should attend

PSU faculty teaching online, hybrid, or in-person courses that use online platforms or tools.

The Office of Academic Innovation is committed to making our events accessible to all Portland State University faculty and staff. If you require an accommodation or service to participate, please contact us at oai@pdx.edu at least 7 days prior to the event.

How to access the event Zoom link:

The Zoom link can be accessed here on the event page where it says Access Event and through your confirmation email. Here are instructions on how to find both!

Contact OAI with any questions

If you need assistance getting into our event or have any questions, please contact the Office of Academic Innovation front desk at oai@pdx.edu.

Meet your facilitator

Ashlie Kauffman Sarsgard

Educational Technology Specialist

Ashlie has worked in the education and training field for over twenty-five years, with the majority of that time serving higher ed and adult learners. Though her main expertise is in instructional design, online program development, and higher ed educational technology, she has also worked as a web producer and Pre-K–12 educational product and curriculum developer, has taught language arts at the K–12 level, and has also taught introductory and advanced composition, creative writing, copywriting, and writing for health professions to college and adult learners. She loves learning and teaching, and has strong interests in equity, accessibility, social justice, and student-centered, inclusive learning.

Ashlie serves as a co-lead of a higher education DEI Collaborative, working with individuals from over 70 institutions to annotate a repository of inclusive teaching practices and help infuse DEI into course quality standards. Ashlie holds an MFA in poetry from NYU, an MA in fiction from Johns Hopkins, and an MFA in fiction from the University of Maryland College Park. She has spent most of her life in Baltimore and New York and moved to Portland in 2020.