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Georgian College's (n.d.) academic integrity regulations outline several other breaches of academic integrity

• Facilitating a breach of academic integrity (8.2.4)
• Impersonation (8.2.5)
• Denying access to information or material (8.2.6)
• Copyright violation (8.2.7)

Review the definitions and examples below, and contact your professor or student advisor if you need help or are unsure about these breaches of academic integrity.

Georgian College's (n.d.) academic integrity regulations, state:

"Facilitating a breach of academic integrity occurs when you put yourself in a position where you could be suspected of having made your work accessible to others, having copied another’s work, or having used unauthorized aids" (section 8.2.4).

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Facilitating a breach of academic integrity can happen unintentionally.  Even if you want to help your friend or classmate, avoid facilitating breaches of academic integrity by ensuring that you do not:

• Share assignments, quiz questions or answers or other course work with other students or friends (online or in person)
• Upload or share course materials using services such as Chegg, Course Hero, web based repositories and other homework sharing sites
• Lend your laptop or other device to another student without ensuring digital files are protected
• Allow other students to see your test, quiz or other assignment answers in class
• Hide or misrepresent information related to breaches of academic integrity
• Help another student to cheat, fabricate information, plagiarize, impersonate, deny access to information or violate copyright

Students may face a penalty for facilitating a breach of academic integrity even if they do not directly benefit from the breach.

Georgian College's (n.d.) academic integrity regulations define impersonation as:

"pretending to be another person for the purpose of deception" (section 8.2.5).

Examples of impersonation include having someone other than yourself:

• complete an in class assignment, text or exam on your behalf
• complete an online assignment, quiz, test or exam (or other assessment) for you
• attend a co-op job interview or similar meeting (in person or online) on your behalf

All people involved in impersonation will be charged with a Breach of Academic Integrity.

Georgian College's (n.d.) academic integrity regulations state that copyright violation occurs:

"when you use copyrighted material without permission" (section 8.2.7).

Examples of copyright violation include:

• Making a photocopy of an entire textbook, rather than buying it
• Distributing library resources such as articles or eBooks on the web, by email or other method
• Posting course materials to homework websites such as Chegg

Georgian College's (n.d.) academic integrity regulations define denying access to information or material as:

"denying others access to academic resources or to deliberately impede the progress of another student or scholar" (section 8.2.6).

Examples of this breach of academic integrity include:

• removing, destroying or hiding library resources needed for an assignment or exam so other students can't access them
• providing misleading information to other students