The Academic integrity toolkit for junior secondary students helps teachers promote academic integrity with Year 7 – Year 10 students. It provides age-appropriate resources and information to support teaching and learning.
The toolkit helps teachers use a shared language and conversations with students about:
- what it means to act with integrity at school, home and in the community
- why understanding and practicing academic integrity is important
- effective practices that support ethical scholarship.
Teaching students about academic integrity aligns with the Australian Curriculum, particularly the ethical understanding general capability.
Download the full toolkit
Toolkit resources
The toolkit includes the following resources.
Guidance for teachers’ document
This document provides background information on:
- academic integrity
- behaviours that motivate students to engage in academic misconduct
- strategies to promote academic integrity
- methods to authenticate student authorship.
Presentation slides
The presentation introduces academic integrity to junior secondary students. It includes a teacher script that can be delivered as is or modified to suit individual school or class contexts.
Slide notes
The slide notes match the presentation and assist teacher planning.
Student worksheet
This worksheet helps students capture their thinking as they work through the presentation.
Student quiz
The quiz can be used to check students’ understanding. A space is provided at the end for students to sign a declaration acknowledging they have completed the academic integrity presentation.
Schools may wish to record student completion of this quiz and use it as a point-in-time authentication tool.
Acting with integrity — poster series
Two posters for use across all classes provide visual cues for students and teachers about acting with integrity.
How parents and carers can promote academic integrity
Parents, carers and others who support students also have a responsibility to promote and maintain academic integrity.
Parents and carers could:
- encourage students to complete the course
- reinforce the importance of ethical conduct and study practices
- support students to understand family, community and school expectations
- ensure students understand the consequences of academic misconduct
- support students to develop the skills needed to submit their own work
- encourage students to seek additional information and/or advice from their school if they have questions after completing the course
- discuss any concerns they may have with the school.
Senior secondary academic integrity resources
Creating and maintaining good academic habits in Year 7 – Year 10 build the foundation for student success in the senior years. The QCAA’s Academic integrity course for senior secondary students supports senior students to understand ethical ways to approach assessment, maintain academic integrity and produce their best work.
- Last updated:
- 30 July 2026
