Here in Canada we don't have an academic honor code per se, but after rumours of rampant online cheating at the end of last term I developed this document with our Academic Integrity office to go over as we move online and have students acknowledge: 

Laboratory Principles Acknowledgement

Blended learning (1):

1. Nobody signed up for this.

• Not for the sickness, not for the physical distancing, not for the sudden reduction of our collective lives together on campus
• Not for reduced time and people in the laboratory, not for an online class, not for teaching remotely, not for learning from home, not for mastering new technologies, not for varied access to learning materials

1. The humane option is the best option.

• We are going to prioritize supporting each other as humans
• We are going to prioritize simple solutions that make sense for the most
• We are going to prioritize sharing resources and communicating clearly

1. We cannot just do the same thing online.

• Some assignments are no longer possible from previous years
• Some expectations are no longer reasonable
• Some objectives are no longer valuable

1. We will foster intellectual nourishment, social connection, and personal accommodation.

• Accessible asynchronous (= time flexible) content for diverse access, time zones, and contexts
• Optional synchronous (= in person both in the lab and online) discussion to learn together and combat isolation
• The synchronous online discussions will be recorded and posted for all students to access; the use of cameras and video is optional

1. We will remain flexible and adjust to the situation.

• Nobody knows where this is going and what we’ll need to adapt
• Everybody needs support and understanding in this unprecedented moment

(1) Adapted from Brandon Bayne UNC - Chapel Hill

Biology 208 Standards:

Students have the right to study in a University environment that respects academic integrity (see the Student Academic Integrity Policy). One of the program learning outcomes for a student in Biological Sciences is engagement in professional conduct and to recognize scientific integrity. This acknowledgment is being used to remind you of your moral and academic responsibilities as a biology student at MacEwan University (<a href="Fundamental Values">fundamental values of academic integrity). In Biology 208 we are asking you to think about your values, the values of the University, and professional scientists, as outlined in the following statements (2,3,4). These statements reflect the importance of recognizing your values in the bigger values of the University and the discipline. They also highlight the duality of academic integrity between students and Instructors:  that students will give faculty honest work, and Instructors will give students fair work to do. If you are struggling with the work you are asked to do by your Instructor, the first step should be a discussion with that Instructor, possibly including how to avoid academic integrity issues. We will ask you to reflect on your values as you submit work in this course (4).

What core values guide your everyday decisions and actions?

What values are you most proud of or would want others to know?

What values would you want people to think of when they think of you?

While you may have immediate values or goals such as “getting an A+” or “becoming a medical Doctor”, the values above go deeper and may be about social justice, valuing truth, caring for people in your life, gaining knowledge to be successful, etc.

Integrity Statements:

Student academic work undertaken at MacEwan University, individually and collectively 

1. will adhere to the scholarly and intellectual standards of accurate attribution of sources, appropriate collection and use of data, and transparent acknowledgement of the contribution of others to their ideas, discoveries, interpretations, and conclusions (= scientific integrity among others).
2. will not be the product of cheating on exams or problem sets, plagiarizing or misrepresenting the ideas or language of someone else as one’s own, falsification of data, or any other instance of academic misconduct such as giving or receiving aid in examinations. 
3. will not involve giving or receiving unpermitted aid in class work, in the preparation of written work, or in any other work that is to be used by the Instructor as the basis of grading.

Students will do their share to uphold the responsibilities for academic integrity and take an active part in seeing to it that others uphold those responsibilities.

Instructors will work to provide fair and just examinations and written work to evaluate students and will take usual and reasonable precautions to prevent the forms of misconduct mentioned above. Instructors will also avoid, as far as practicable, academic procedures that create temptations to violate academic integrity. MacEwan Instructors have a contractual obligation to formally address all suspected cases of academic misconduct. Consequences can range from a warning letter, to failing grade in the course, all the way to expulsion from the University.

While University alone has the right and obligation to set academic requirements, students and Instructors  will work together to establish optimal conditions for morally and academically responsible work. It is our goal to work together to have representative work submitted by you as a student that is evaluated in a fair, meaningful, and consistent way by your Instructors. 

As you work to complete an assignment or exam (or any type of learning assessment given to you by your Instructor) apply these 4 ethical tests4:

Gut Feeling – do you feel, in your gut, that the action you are about to do is an ethical one?

Values Test –  would honesty, respect, responsibility, trustworthiness and/or fairness be upheld by your action?

Standards Test – would the action in the situation uphold the Student Academic Integrity Policy or the integrity standards above?

Exposure Test – would you be okay if your action was exposed to the Instructor, your parent or the Academic Integrity Office? 

If the answer to any of these questions is "NO", then it might be an unethical choice and you should reconsider engaging in it.

We would like to draw your attention to the following excerpt from MacEwan’s Academic integrity Website:

“Contract cheating is a form of severe academic misconduct consisting of outsourcing or attempting to outsource academic work to a third party.

Avoiding contract cheating:

Doing research for an essay I am writing, I saw an ad for a service where I can pay someone to write a custom paper for me. Is that OK?

Absolutely not! Submitting academic work as if it is your own when it has been completed by someone else is called contract cheating and is considered severe academic misconduct, and automatically leads to a hearing with more serious consequences such as an F in the course or the requirement to withdraw.”

*This includes getting online tutorial help for an assignment, test or other work that you will be graded on.*

(2)  https://communitystandards.stanford.edu/policies-and-guidance/honor-code

(3) https://honor.fas.harvard.edu/honor-code

(4) https://academicintegrity.ucsd.edu/take-action/covid-19-students.html#Tip-3.-Remember-Your-Values