Exam Cheating

DTU takes exam cheating seriously, both in connection with a final exam/project and with ongoing assignments in a course, even if these are only exam prerequisites that are not included in the assessment itself.

Students must know that cheating and plagiarism are unacceptable. To make DTU's positions in the field visible, DTU has introduced a code of honour. At the beginning of their studies, students must accept the code to pass the Commencement of Studies Exam and be able to register for courses at DTU.

It is also vital that the lecturer always reports suspected cheating to the Office for Study Programmes and Student Affairs (AUS). AUS has extensive experience handling cases of exam cheating and can advise and guide you in connection with suspected suspicion of exam cheating. If you are in doubt about whether a case is solid or reasoned enough to be able to carry a report, you can always contact the exam cheating team in AUS. On DTU Inside, you can see who works with cases regarding exam cheat.

The lecturer can give an oral reprimand

Although AUS would like the lecturer to report suspected exam cheating, some violations are considered below the trivial limit and are best handled at the department by the lecturer himself; also taking into account the time it takes to process a report in AUS. Failure to comply with the rules for citing sources and violation of a cooperation policy in the course, etc., in a partial test (e.g., a home assignment) that is included with 5% or less in the overall assessment of the course is, in AUS' eyes, an example of a minor offence. You can always contact the Office for Study Programmes and Student Affairs to discuss the matter. In the rules on exam cheating, you can read more about the possibility of giving an oral reprimand.

Reporting exam cheating

AUS requests that all reports about exam cheating be made through the IT system www.eksamenssnyd.dtu.dk. Inquiries about exam cheating can be sent to the email eksamenssnyd@adm.dtu.dk.

A cheating case is created only based on a report from a lecturer. Thus, AUS does not take up a cheating case of its own motion as a rule. In rare cases, a case can also be started due to an inquiry from a fellow student.

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DTU's rules on cheating at exams and other assessments can be seen on DTU Inside, where there is also information about the procedure for processing the cases.

Plagiarism control

All submissions at DTU are, in principle, made digitally. Submission takes place via "Assignments" at DTU Learn. For final projects, the assignment is created automatically at the 'assignment module' at DTU Inside, but in other cases, the lecturer must create the assignment in DTU Learn so that the students have a place to submit their hand-in. Final projects must always be submitted in PDF format. In other cases, the format can be agreed upon between lecturer and student, but it is recommended to use PDF format here as well.

For all digital submissions (both for the exam, projects and during a course), the submissions must be checked for plagiarism via the anti-plagiarism system Ouriginal (former Urkund). The individual lecturer must activate the plagiarism check in DTU Learn for each assignment, after which a scan will take place of all student submissions in this 'assignment'. See this guide:

https://learnsupport.dtu.dk/teachers/using-urkund-to-detect-plagiarism.php

The submitted material is scanned against the Internet and former submissions. After ½-1 day, the lecturer can see the status of the plagiarism control at DTU Learn. The plagiarism check should only be seen as an aid to the lecturer to substantiate/disprove a suspicion of plagiarism.

There is also the option of doing a manual plagiarism check without creating an 'assignment'. See DTU Inside under 'Toolbox'/'Manual plagiarism check'.

Although reports/assignments must always be submitted electronically, the lecturer can agree with the students that submissions are also made on paper.

Suspicion of use of ChatGPT or other AI tools

There are various websites that can be used to detect the use of AI tools in a written exam submission/. There are, e.g. this one: https://writer.com/ai-content-detector/. Whether it works in practice, however, is currently unknown. Experiences with using this website and other sites are welcome to be sent to eksamenssnyd@adm.dtu.dk.