What is and is not considered ethical in academics can often be a complicated issue. As a tutor, you’re in a position where it’s your job to help your tutees, but there are types of helping that can ultimately create some problems with the Center for Student Ethics and Standards. Aside from the obvious of doing the work for a student, even helping students with graded assignments can often be considered cheating or collusion. So, as a rule, it’s better to avoid offering students any type of help with graded work, and, to protect yourself, it’s important to ask whether or not an assignment is going to be turned in for a grade.
In the rare case that a student’s professor is okay with you helping them with the assignment, you should be in touch with the professor, with the student’s permission, about exactly what type of assistance they are okay with the student receiving.
Similarly, sharing your own old exams from the course can be considered cheating if you don’t clear it with the professor first. The bottom line is that it’s important to be aware of what’s in the Academic Integrity Policy and to be in touch with professors, with the student’s permission, before offering assistance of any kind on graded assignments.
To see the Academic Integrity Policy, follow this link: www.uvm.edu/~uvmppg/ppg/student/acadintegrity.pdf
Archive for November, 2009
13 Nov
Academic Integrity in Tutoring
10 Nov
Logging Hours Instructions
Each time you tutor you should log your hours in two places:
1. Tutor Trac
2. Peoplesoft
Tutor Trac is where you’ll submit your lognotes for each and every tutoring session that you have. To get to Tutor Trac, go to tutoring.uvm.edu and log in using your UVM NetID and password. How you log your hours will vary slightly depending on whether you are logging a campus-wide or a coop-based session. Please see the Tutor Trac instructions for more information.
Peoplesoft is where you’ll need to submit your time to get paid. To get to the site, go to catalyst.uvm.edu. Once there, do the following:
1. Log in under “Human Resources” using your UVM NetID and password
2. Once you’ve logged in, click on “Self Service” in the menu on the left side of the screen
3. Under “Self Service,” click on “Time Reporting”
4. Under “Time Reporting,” click on “Report Time”
5. Under “Report Time,” click on “Timesheet”
6. Now, if you are working multiple campus jobs, you’ll need to select your tutoring job at the learning co-op out of a list. Just look for Patience to be listed as your employer and you should be set. Click on your learning co-op job and then you’ll be taken to the timesheet. If you are working only one campus job, once you click on “Timesheet” you’ll be here.
7. Enter in your hours under the days that you worked. Remember that time needs to be entered in portions of an hour. So, if you worked for an hour and a half, you would enter 1.5 not 1.3.
8. Once you’ve entered in your hours for a given week, you would click on the “Time Reporting Code” drop-down menu and select either “Work Study Earnings” if you are using work study money or “Temporary Employee” if you are earning wages.
9. Under “Combo Code,” click on the box with the magnifying glass icon to look up your combo code. If you are working multiple campus jobs, there will be multiple combo codes. Just guess and check until you find the right one. The system will tell you whenever you pick the wrong one, so it’s pretty easy. If you are only working one campus job, there is only one combo code. So, just click it and it should work.
10. Click “Submit”
If you are entering hours for a week other than the current one, you can click “Previous Week” to move back in the schedule or you can click on the calendar icon next to the date to jump to a day in the calendar.