Plagiarism

Exam committee

• Plagiarism is absolutely forbidden, and will be reported to the exam committee. This may have serious consequences, up to ejection from the study programme.

• Your report and code is automatically processed through Turnitin, which also checks for overlap with other student submissions. Therefore, follow the below rules:

Text plagiarism

The rule is very simple: All content (text, figures, tables, etc.) in your report has to be produced by yourself.

• In other words, you can take inspiration from other sources, but you you can never copy anything, nor have someone else produce output for you (including Chat-GPT or other AI tools, only the use of spellcheckers is allowed). Generate all your content yourself.

• Equations are a special case. These can of course be exactly the same as other sources, if you stick to the same notation. However, never screenshot and paste equations. Write them yourself in LaTeX.

Code plagiarism

The same rule obviously applies to your code.

• Never copy any code from a public source.

• Never copy code from another student (you can of course discuss about the problem: learning together is actually very helpful).

• Warning: when you come to us at a practical session with a piece of code you cannot explain yourself at all, then this is obviously problematic.

Oral check/examination

• For every assignment, we may randomly invite groups to explain their report, to check whether you indeed understood what you wrote down.