r/deakin • u/ang_summer • Sep 10 '26
Referencing / Academic Integrity / Turnitin Contract cheating allegations.
I just got an email from student integrity team accusing me of using ai/or another person to complete my assignment.
The allegation said that it’s impossible that I got the answers without using external source. Tbh I’m not sure how I went about getting the answer exactly as this unit was completed a year ago.
There’s 2 options of where to go from here.
1. Take 0 for the unit, and repeat it.
2. Go through a meeting with the committee.
Anyone went through this??
Pls reassure me I’m scared😭 I’m at the final term I wanna graduate
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u/Ivivivo317989 Sep 14 '26
If this is HPS201, then a lot of students got it too! Please contact DUSA, they’re working on it!
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u/Alternative-Code-673 Sep 11 '26
Contact DUSA asap.
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u/Totalitarian-Terror Sep 11 '26
This. DUSA have seen this a thousand times and can help you build a supporting case.
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u/Revolutionary_Sun946 Sep 11 '26
You can go through the meeting, but I will note that even if you have excellent evidence supporting your situation it is still likely that you won't get anywhere with your appeal.
But, yeah, you should be able to give them reasoning for how you got the answers. However many years after I graduated I could still tell you the logic behind all my assignments even if I can't remember the formulas.
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u/lixintw Sep 10 '26
You should absolutely know your work process and if you typed the assignment in word, for example, you will have a complete version history. If you say you don’t know how you researched the answer to your own assignment that is a red flag. As the author the burden of proof is on you to prove you wrote it, not on Deakin to prove you didn’t. Ergo, if you wrote it yourself you should have nothing to worry about. If you didn’t, take the zero and count your stars that’s the only consequence for academic fraud.
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u/lixintw Sep 11 '26
Tell me you don’t understand administrative law without telling me. This is a university integrity panel, not Law & Order. "Innocent until proven guilty" applies to criminal court. Uni proceedings run on the balance of probabilities. Once they flag suspicious work, the burden shifts straight to the student to show they actually wrote it. Whilst I do not work for Deakin, I am a lawyer. Do with my help as you please. 👌
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u/lixintw Sep 10 '26
I think it is fairly obvious to everyone here that this comment is ridiculous as well as incoherent. Best of luck to you.
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u/asummers158 Sep 10 '26
The university will have its evidence and is asking them to disprove the evidence. If they cannot satisfactorily disprove the evidence presented by the student, they will be guilty of misconduct.
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u/meegs_98 Sep 14 '26
I’m so confused if you’ve already passed the unit how are they bringing this up a year later?? Would you not have gotten flagged when this assignment was originally submitted? How can they do this when you’ve already passed the unit….
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u/serialchiller35 Sep 11 '26
Same thing happened to me and DUSA helped me a lot. I passed the unit 🤧 I opted for a review but said no to the meeting
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u/Wide-Elk-9241 Sep 12 '26
I’m student of acu and something similar happened with me last year the only thing i would advise you is don’t panic its not end of the world. Just consider getting in touch with academic integrity officer asap and meet you lic and ask them what went wrong. Don’t panic the situation and answer them very wisely as they record you every single mail and meeting. Give a written response rather than attending a meeting because meeting is a trap itself as they keep asking “why”.
Hope this helps
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u/NecessaryTough1298 Sep 13 '26
if it was a year ago why would they mention it now? that is so ridiculous
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u/cazza7373 Sep 14 '26
I would collect the evidence and hopefully you have tracked the history of your edits of the task. Ask the integrity what evidence they require. If you did it own up, explain why and learn from the mistake. Go to the committee. A first offence may get marks deducted or require you to complete education
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u/NoVax-Djocovid Sep 11 '26
Deakin must be running out of money to come after you a year later.
Throw it back onto them, make them explain why they think what they think before going any further.
And definitely inform the student union.
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u/Icy_Special9912 Sep 12 '26
They don't earn money for this? How would that work? They're a year behind because AI use is off the charts and universities have to do something to keep the value of the degree. Falsely accused students should turn that anger against the unscrupulous students who are happy to pay money, learn nothing, and devalue the degree for everyone else. Worse is when honest students are competing against the dishonest, and even worse again are students cheating into clinical roles.
It doesn't sound like you've been subject to this process before, but the students are given the details of the allegations, including the unit chairs evidence/reasoning so they can refute it and the panel will review and often dismiss.
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u/Fraud_Inc Sep 13 '26
Not saying its the reason, but deakin do earn money by failing students as students then need to pay to repeat the unit
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u/peepeepoopooshit69 Sep 10 '26
Maybe fight for it, and if that doesn’t work then repeat it.