The various incarnations of an online academic integrity module, or whose responsibility is it anyway?

In the development and delivery of a faculty-based online academic integrity module designed to orient a diverse student cohort to the Faculty’s expectations regarding the use of evidence and referencing convention, a number of questions began to emerge out of the continual problematics surrounding its implementation. This paper will provide an overview of the changing design and location of the module since its inception in 2007. The authors reflect on the four incarnations of the module: (i) the compulsory embedded module; (ii) the compulsory disembedded module; (iii) the voluntary disembedded module; and (iv) the voluntary embedded module. In unpacking each of these incarnations, the discussion will address the specific sets of problems that the faculty faced in developing a solution to the ‘problem of student plagiarism’ in the faculty, and reflect on these problems in relation to the question of whose responsibility it is anyway.