Honor Code Policy
What is Honor System?
Blueprint Education and Hope High School Online value integrity and accountability in the completion of all courses. The lessons are designed to prepare the student for the exams, and must be completed independently without cheating, plagiarizing or knowingly giving false information. Students may discuss the content of lesson material with others, but the actual responses or submitted work must be their own. All exams must be taken under the supervision of an approved proctor. Students may not use course notes, textbooks, workbooks, manuals or electronic devices to assist them in the completion of an exam unless otherwise stated on the exam or proctor guideline sheet.
The first instance of a reported Honor Code Violation results in a warning and required conference with the student’s parents. The re-submission of the assignment is also required.
If evidence of additional Honor Code violations are established after the first offense, students will be given a failing grade for the course and any refund will be forfeited.
Blueprint Education and HHSO follow a due process procedure when academic misconduct is reported.
A copy of this procedure is available upon request.
To avoid academic misconduct:
- When researching a content related topic, collect the ideas and make notes in your own words.
- Use your OWN IDEAS AND WORDS for all assignments unless specifically told to do otherwise in the assignment.
- Use quotation marks around any information that you copy word for word. Then cite the source of the quote.
- Do not copy and paste any piece of information from another source (book, website, encyclopedia, etc.) without citing the source.
- For information on citing courses check out these websites:
- This worksheet, provided by OPEN Clearinghouse, is a great resource to use:
http://www.openc.k12.or.us/citeintro/elementary/docs/citewrksht.pdf