Academic Integrity Microcredential Overview

Partnering with the Dean of Students Office, eCampus Center offers a microcredential to guide faculty through topics related to academic integrity in online courses.

Learning Outcomes

Upon completion of the microcredential requirements, faculty will be able to:

Apply conduct process to ensure students’ rights to due process when handling potential academic misconduct.
Apply best practices in curriculum design and sequence to promote experiential/ applied learning through assessments high on Bloom’s Taxonomy (which are less likely to incur misconduct instances).
Collaborate and calibrate courses with other instructors on academic integrity/ student-learning, and student engagement, and consistency.
Apply Universal Design for Learning (UDL) practices to academic integrity to promote student learning, which promotes adherence with university learning policies and prevents potential misconduct.
Select effective and creatively designed assessments to match course instruction and course learning outcomes.
Identify how to limit curricular opportunities, or perceived opportunities, for academic misconduct, including clarifying expectations of integrity and definitions of misconduct, and engaging students in meaning-making about their learning.

Below you will learn more about how to enroll in the microcredential activities.

Microcredential Requirements

The Academic Integrity Microcredential requires the completion of the following:

Now What? Responding to Academic Misconduct & Preventive Assessment Design Seminar.
Academic Integrity and Your Syllabus
Two of the following electives:
- Contract Cheating: What It Is and How to Help Students Protect Themselves Against It Webinar
- Academic Integrity in the Age of Artificial Intelligence Webinar
- Prevent Cheating Throughout Your Online Course Webinar.
Microcredential reflection activity

All microcredential requirements are offered at least once a year. Check CampusGroups for upcoming offerings (please be logged in to access).

Enrolling, Tracking, and Completing Microcredentials

To enroll in this microcredential, go to the eCampus group Events page in CampusGroups (be sure to log in) and locate the Join Sub-Groups area on the right side of the page. Click the relevant checkbox for this microcredential to enroll in it. You can then view the requirements for the microcredential (as described above) by clicking on Home, then My Activity, then My Checklists.

: Enroll in the Academic Integrity Microcredential

You can enroll in currently scheduled offerings for this microcredential, as described above, on our eCampus Faculty Development Event page in CampusGroups. Go to the Event Page, locate the required offerings, and click register. Make sure you are logged in to CampusGroups to see all events.

If a required course for the microcredential is not listed, that means it has already been offered this semester. You can contact onlinefacultydevelopment@boisestate.edu to learn when the next offering will be.

: Example of Registration Page

After you complete a seminar or elective activities for a microcredential, your progress will be reflected in CampusGroups. You can view your progress by clicking on the Home button in CampusGroups, and then in the main menu selecting My Activity, then My Checklists.

Updates to the progress can take up to one week to be reflected after completing an activity. If you have a question about your progress, please reach out to onlinefacultydevelopment@boisestate.edu.

: Example of a Checklist Page for Tracking Progress Towards Certificate

Once you complete the final activity for a microcredential, you will be notified by the eCampus Faculty Development team. You will then receive a badge recognizing that you completed the certificate which you can save to your computer and upload to LinkedIn. Your achievement of the microcredential will be announced in an upcoming eCampus Update Newsletter. Prior to announcing it in the newsletter, you will be offered the opportunity to opt-out of the announcement.

In addition to your achievement being recognized with a badge and the announcement in the eCampus Update newsletter, your completion of the seminar and elective activities will also be reported to Faculty 180, where appropriate, a tool at Boise State for faculty to collect, organize, and display their research, teaching and service data for the purposes of annual reviews, promotion and tenure.

Learn more about Faculty 180