Sharing of ADLC Work (ADLC Administrative Policy 60-4)

Plagiarism is the practice of representing someone else's work or ideas as one's own.


It is a dishonest practice and is damaging to a student’s knowledge & skill development. Plagiarism is addressed in ADLC Administrative Policy 60-04. 

The sharing of school work, especially after having been marked by ADLC, to students for the purposes of submitting plagiarized work (either paraphrasing or directly copying student work) is dishonest, and this sharing goes against the Alberta School Act’s expectation of students to respect school rules and co-operate with how schools offer education to their students.

ADLC prefers to take a progressive approach to sharing of work with other students, in order to educate and correct the behaviour.
If a student is currently enrolled in any ADLC course and found to be sharing school work, whether from their current course or another, to others:

First Offence

The student is informed that their work has been submitted as plagiarized work by another student; a warning is provided that further submissions of such work, from any course, will be grounds for removal from the current course(s).

Second Offence

The student will be removed from all active ADLC courses.

If the student is not currently enrolled in any ADLC course and found to be sharing academic work with others, they are informed that their work has been submitted as plagiarized work by another student and, as such, further registrations in any ADLC course may not be permitted. A notation is put on the student's profile to indicate such.

Such actions do not limit ADLC to pursue other remedies (actions), either criminal or civil, for the distribution of its copyrighted materials.