At Penn State, an academic integrity violation can be intentional, such as someone trying to violate a course or assessment policy. It can be unintentional, like if someone didn't read or remember instructions and violated a course policy accidentally.

Of course, any academic integrity violation leads to unwanted consequences, but intentional violations usually lead to more serious consequences, including reduced course grades, an F for the course, or a transcript notation.

In this section we will discuss intentional copying and cheating. 

Upon completion of this section, you should be able to:

• Identify behaviors that are considered intentional copying
• List behaviors that are not acceptable during test taking