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This section of the toolkit offers a range of different resources, including guidance on substantiating and detecting contract cheating, strategies to improve assessment design and deter file sharing, and practical ways to apply quality assurance principles and build strong frameworks to protect academic integrity.
This short course and accompanying situational judgment test (SJT) will build your baseline knowledge about academic integrity issues and techniques and practices for deterring and detecting contract cheating.
This section of the toolkit brings together a wide range of materials to support academic integrity from multiple perspectives. It provides guides, case studies and resources for educators and institutions seeking deeper insights and actionable strategies to strengthen integrity practices.
In 2020, TEQSA launched the first edition of our Academic Integrity Toolkit to share research and assist integrity professionals to promote academic integrity and address commercial academic cheating at their institution.
Academic integrity is integral to preserving the reputation of Australia’s higher education sector and protecting student interests.
TEQSA’s updated Academic Integrity Toolkit responds to new and emerging risks posed to academic integrity. In recent years, readily available and rapidly developing generative artificial intelligence (gen AI) tools have emerged. TEQSA has also observed changes in the promotion and marketing approaches used by commercial academic cheating services. The revised edition builds on the existing toolkit’s sections on policy and benchmarking and contract cheating. It offers new resources on assessment design and security, and risks to academic integrity from gen AI.
This initiative was funded by the Australian Government and the toolkit can be accessed free of charge.
The resources and case studies in this toolkit represent approaches and ideas which institutions have found useful in addressing academic integrity. They are not intended as guidance from TEQSA but are instead shared to encourage institutions to consider different approaches which may be useful in supporting academic integrity at their institution.
This section of the toolkit helps you evaluate and benchmark your policies and practices to support good learning, teaching and research.
This section of the toolkit explores assessment security and the risks associated with different forms of assessment. The section includes frameworks for academic integrity and assessment security, and showcases different ways of securing assessment to provide assurance that they are completed with integrity.
In March, TEQSA published our revised Academic Integrity Toolkit. The updated toolkit includes two new sections as well as new and updated case studies to support higher education providers in promoting academic integrity and managing academic misconduct at their institution.
Updated sections:
New sections:
Today we’re pleased to add new and updated resources to the toolkit, including a Good Practice Note, and guides related to substantiating contract cheating, detecting AI in texts, and the common roles and responsibilities relating to academic integrity.
These resources add to the case studies and resources we published in March. The Academic Integrity Toolkit can be found in the Guide and resources section of our website.
The project team which delivered the toolkit’s update was led by Associate Professor Guy Curtis (University of Western Australia). Thank you to the project team for their work.
The Australian Government released the Net Zero in Government Operations Strategy in November 2023, setting out the overall approach and action required by Commonwealth entities to achieve the APS Net Zero 2030 target.
The Net Zero in Government Operations Strategy represents a strong commitment by the Australian Government to lead by example on emissions reduction and contribute to the decarbonisation of Australia’s economy.
TEQSA is committed to the achievement of the Government’s APS Net Zero 2030 target. TEQSA is following the APS Net Zero 2030 target in full, as per the Net Zero in Government Operations Strategy.
This Emissions Reduction Plan describes the priorities and actions TEQSA is taking to reduce our operational emissions and contribute to the APS Net Zero 2030 target.
Australia’s anti-cheating laws make it an offence to provide or advertise academic cheating services in higher education.
TEQSA is working to disrupt access to these sites to protect students and the integrity of higher education.
An alphabetical list of blocked illegal cheating websites is available below:
TEQSA continues to disrupt predatory academic cheating services, by blocking their websites in Australia.
TEQSA has blocked another 61 commercial academic cheating websites, disrupting the operations of these illegal services which target students.
This recent action brings the total number of websites blocked, under protocols with major internet service providers (ISPs), to 616. A list of the blocked illegal cheating websites is available at teqsa.gov.au.
Academic cheating services allow students to pay someone to complete assessments for them. This undermines the student’s learning and the trust in the qualification they receive. Further, using these services leaves the student vulnerable to blackmail and identity theft.
Blocking illegal academic cheating service websites is part of TEQSA’s multi-pronged approach to protecting the integrity of higher education awards.
TEQSA has numerous resources available to support higher education students, academics and professional staff. These resources include:
Academic integrity toolkit
