Provide your students with the tools for good study techniques and the knowledge and awareness of what academic integrity means. A digital self-study material on academic integrity for students is now available on Athena as course template, free and easy to copy and use in your teaching.

A resource to use in your teaching

As part of our efforts to prevent plagiarism, a course module for students at the University is now made available in Athena. The aim of the course module is to provide students with knowledge and awareness of academic integrity as well as tools to develop good study techniques. The material is also useful in that it prepares students for professional life, with a basic ethical approach.

The course module consists of three films with accompanying quizzes. The first film is about academic integrity, how scientific integrity permeates the university and the everyday life of a researcher. Scientists in academia act as role models and talk about how they conduct research and maintain their integrity. The second film looks at what happens when scientific integrity is breached, as a researcher and as a student. The third film teaches students good study techniques and how to practice and maintain scientific integrity themselves.

Avaliable as a template in Athena

In Athena,you find the material in the form of a course template, Akademisk integritet/Academic Integrity. The template is open for all employees at Stockholm University to copy. There is both an English and a Swedish version of the material i the template, in two different plans. The films have english subtitels.

You are welcome to the material in your teaching in the way you se fit. You can easily move the course module to your own course locations in Athena or use the whole module as a separate course.

The course module has been developed by Centre for the Advancement of University Teaching on behalf of the University President.

Here's how to create your own copy of the course template:

• Log in to Athena
• Under Courses in the menu at the top of the home page, click on the green box with a cross in it, add course.
• Select the option: 'Based on an existing course or template' and click on 'Browse for course template'.
• Find "Akademisk integritet/Academic integrity" in the list of available course templates. Make sure that you have choosen Show all templates when searching for the course.
• Give the course a name in the title box and click on Save. Copying takes a little while, but when finished you have your own version of the course where you can either choose to add your students or choose to further copy the course planning area to another of your courses. The course consists of two identical planning areas, one in Swedish and one in English, choose the one that suits your students.

If you prefere to copy the course plans directly into one of your existing courses:

If you already have a course where you want to use the course material, as one of the course plans. You can do this directly, skipping the step of copying the whole course . In Service portalen you find instructions on how to do this.

If you are not that familiar with copying material between courses in Athena, ask an Athena experienced colleague at the department, they will surely be able to help you. You are also welcome to contact us at CeUL.

The Academic Writing Service is the English-language service offered by Studie- och språkverkstaden (The Language and Study Centre). They provide study skills and academic writing support for all students at Stockholm University. Their mission is to make it possible for as many students as possible to complete their studies independently and achieve good results, regardless of their background or circumstances. They are active in developing our pedagogical approaches, which all have the student placed firmly at their centre.

The Academic Writing Service provides English-language support for writing and study skills. They give talks and seminars and offer individual guidance. Their services are available free of charge to all students at Stockholm University.

For example, on their web they have a collection of links to useful resources for students doing coursework or thesis writing in English.

Help your students find Academic Writing Service

Workshops for university teachers

They also offer workshops for lecturers who would like to work collegially to develop their teaching of academic writing and study skills. 

For lecturers