Academic misconduct

I’m currently studying at Arden University and one out of 3 of my assignments which I’ve submitted is being investigated for academic misconduct and the only thing I can think of is because I found my own sources outside of their library. Has anyone else had this? They’re not really communicating and I had to email them myself for me to find out. Also considering transferring university. How good is Open University for studying Law online?

I study too at Arden and have been also called out onmiscounted for use of AI also, the funny part is the part ofmy assignment they are claiming I used AI for I spentages writing I used AI as a guide however reworded it, Imainly used it as a plan and guide rather than straight upcopy. After ages of waiting for a response I was told I’mon my final warning (never had one before) and that Imight not be able to resist the assignment so I’mguessing I’d have to do my foundation year again. I spentages doing my assignments and I’m not the smartestperson so I really do work hard for my grades. No issueswith the other assignments I did and I used AI for thesame thing to help with layout and to guide.

Hi
I am only a former student there, but I do have over 10 years teaching experience in FE / H.E
The previous poster makes some great points. I would like to add that if you haven't got the APA referencing format correct it can flag up a high similarity score which would be investigated - did you include a reference list. It doesn't matter whether you got information from their online library or not.
Marc
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I study too at Arden and have been also called out onmiscounted for use of AI also, the funny part is the part ofmy assignment they are claiming I used AI for I spentages writing I used AI as a guide however reworded it, Imainly used it as a plan and guide rather than straight upcopy. After ages of waiting for a response I was told I’mon my final warning (never had one before) and that Imight not be able to resist the assignment so I’mguessing I’d have to do my foundation year again. I spentages doing my assignments and I’m not the smartestperson so I really do work hard for my grades. No issueswith the other assignments I did and I used AI for thesame thing to help with layout and to guide.

hi how many % does final year count towards your degree

PSA: I would not recommend Arden university AT ALL!

I’m currently studying at Arden University and one out of 3 of my assignments which I’ve submitted is being investigated for academic misconduct and the only thing I can think of is because I found my own sources outside of their library. Has anyone else had this? They’re not really communicating and I had to email them myself for me to find out. Also considering transferring university. How good is Open University for studying Law online?

I study too at Arden and have been also called out onmiscounted for use of AI also, the funny part is the part ofmy assignment they are claiming I used AI for I spentages writing I used AI as a guide however reworded it, Imainly used it as a plan and guide rather than straight upcopy. After ages of waiting for a response I was told I’mon my final warning (never had one before) and that Imight not be able to resist the assignment so I’mguessing I’d have to do my foundation year again. I spentages doing my assignments and I’m not the smartestperson so I really do work hard for my grades. No issueswith the other assignments I did and I used AI for thesame thing to help with layout and to guide.

I have a similar issue . Could I ask what happened as I’m confused myself .

I’m currently studying at Arden University and one out of 3 of my assignments which I’ve submitted is being investigated for academic misconduct and the only thing I can think of is because I found my own sources outside of their library. Has anyone else had this? They’re not really communicating and I had to email them myself for me to find out. Also considering transferring university. How good is Open University for studying Law online?

The same thing has happened to me. And with a little investigation it’s clear that Arden University is renowned for doing this to students.
This is because they heavily rely on turnitin, which is a piece of tech created in a bid to try to detect AI usage, but in reality it is not equipped to do the job at hand. And as such has a disclaimer to make sure that no university penalises students due to their results. Turnitin AI detection is literally just there as a heads up to investigate further, nothing more. Unfortunately, Arden University do not acknowledge this.
I have disproven all of Arden Universities reasons for accusing me of using AI, and they are proceeding with the allegation just on the basis of my AI turnitin score and because I had referencing mistakes (of which I have addressed and shown how they occurred - human error).
Further, upon me chasing Arden University to carry out a professional process and send me a decision letter they then created new allegations in the decision letter without allowing for an investigation and response to these new allegations. Ironically their new allegation included accusing me of not assessing and accessing a paper that I had cited because one of my referencing mistakes was caused by taking a reference from a paper that I found on google scholar, and that paper having made a mistake in the reference. Luckily, I had put the correct reference in the body of my work, and the one with an error was only in the reference list, and so this shows that I had accessed the paper that I referenced. However, this new allegation also shows that they know that I did the work myself, and now have issue with the work that I did… whilst penalising me on the basis of having used AI, which they clearly now know that I didn’t do.
Just to add… they made me do a presentation of my work on teams, and all commented that I clearly have thorough knowledge of my work. This isn’t the first problem that I’ve had with the university. This university are not there to support their students, they’re there to make money. Whilst the lecturers have been a joy, every other department is a mess.

Sorry auto correct did me dirty hope you know what I mean

I have the same problem. I was accused of using AI for writing my paper, although I did not use any AI tools. I wrote an email explaining how I wrote the paper, but since I don't have any evidence to prove that I didn’t use AI, it’s difficult to prove a negative. Perhaps this is why the legal system is based on proving guilt rather than innocence.
I would like to know whether the university is required to provide any evidence to support their accusations, or can they just make such claims without any proof, essentially stating that "it is as they say" without further justification?
After they sent the email with the accusation, they stopped communicating completely and are simply telling me to wait. I suppose that regardless of the outcome of the investigation, or rather regardless of the truth, I will not finish the year anyway since they will not finish with my case to the end of the year. And maybe this is what it is all about in the first place. They want people to do the foundation year twice to get their money and not give any real education. However, I would like to know if they can be held accountable for making false accusations, wasting a year of my time, and the money spent on tuition fees.