LibGuides: Academic Offences: Collusion

What is collusion?

Lending your work to others can be an academic offence: find out how to avoid it (BU News webpage)
Collusion is when you are set an individual assignment and you complete the work with one or more other students and hand in almost identical assignments. Don't be tempted to lend your assignment to a friend or another student on your course. Find out more about academic offences and how to avoid them.
Consult the Academic Offences Policy and Procedure for Taught Awards for more detailed information.

This information from the Open University will help you to develop good collaborative practice, so that you are not guilty of collusion.

This short video made by students at Edinburgh University gives examples of collaboration and collusion.

Here are some tips on avoiding collusion -

Understand the assignment brief. Make sure that you are absolutely clear whether this is a group assignment or an individual one. If in doubt ask the lecturer who set the piece of work.
Avoid disussing the work for your individual assignment with others in detail. It is OK to form a study group to support each other. Just make sure that your discussions are about the general topic not individual's work.
Don't lend your work to other students. If you share accommodation or computers make sure that your files and computers are password protected.