Academic Integrity at Sask DLC
Online learning is changing rapidly, and tools such as artificial intelligence (AI) are creating new opportunities and new challenges for students, families, and educators. Sask DLC is proud to be leading the way in Saskatchewan and Canada by implementing an innovative Academic Integrity Administrative Procedure designed for learning in a digital age.
Our approach focuses on helping students develop responsibility, communication skills, and confidence in their learning while ensuring teachers can accurately assess student understanding. Rather than focusing only on misconduct, we focus on teaching students how to demonstrate their learning process and use technology responsibly.
What is Academic Integrity?
Academic integrity means being honest about your learning and taking responsibility for the work you submit.
At Sask DLC, students are expected to submit work that honestly reflects their own learning and understanding. This includes following teacher directions, completing assessments independently, and acknowledging any supports or tools used, including AI when allowed.
Academic integrity helps students build important future-ready skills such as responsibility, ethical decision-making, communication, and digital citizenship.
Why is Academic Integrity Important?
Students, families, employers, post-secondary institutions, and society all depend on learning credentials being meaningful and trustworthy.
Our Academic Integrity Administrative Procedure helps ensure students take responsibility for their learning, teachers can confidently assess student understanding, communication remains strong between students and teachers, students receive support before small concerns become larger problems and technology, including AI, is used responsibly and appropriately
How do Students Demonstrate Their Learning?
As part of online learning, teachers may ask students to show evidence of their learning process to help demonstrate how they know what they know at any given time. This evidence may include:
drafts and rough work
notes and planning documents
revision history
reflections on learning
practice work
verbal explanations or conversations with a teacher
Learning to explain thinking and show evidence of growth is an important skill that supports communication, problem-solving, and responsible use of technology.
What Are Reliability Checks?
Reliability checks are conversations and activities that help teachers confirm that student work accurately reflects student understanding.
Reliability checks are a normal part of learning at Sask DLC. They are not intended to be punitive. Instead, they help teachers:
understand a student's thinking
provide timely support
confirm student understanding
ensure assessment results accurately reflect learning
A reliability check may involve a conversation with a teacher, a review of process evidence, or an opportunity for a student to explain how they completed their work.
What Happens if a Teacher Has Concerns?
Most concerns are resolved through communication and additional opportunities for students to demonstrate their learning.
When needed, teachers may temporarily pause a student's ability to submit additional work until a conversation can take place. This allows concerns to be addressed early and helps ensure students receive the support they need to move forward successfully.
The goal is always to restore understanding, strengthen communication, and support student learning.
How Can Families Help?
Families and learning mentors play an important role in supporting academic integrity.
You can help by encouraging students to:
• complete their own work
• ask questions when they need help
• save drafts and learning evidence
• discuss their learning process
• use AI and other tools only as directed by their teacher
• communicate openly with teachers
Working together, students, families, and teachers can build the skills needed to learn responsibly and successfully in a rapidly changing world.
Questions?
Your teacher will communicate any course-specific expectations and can help answer questions about permitted supports, technology tools, AI use, or academic integrity requirements within a course.
