Directive
No. 10/2017
Internal regulations of the Institute of Technology and Business in České
Budějovice
SUBMITTING, CHECKING AND ARCHIVING OF STUDENT WORK
AT ITB
Date of issue: 15 / 9 / 2017 Valid from: 15 / 9 / 2017 Valid until: revocation
File number: ITB006423/2017 Pages: 3 Attachments: 2
Information on changes: Annually
Repealed
regulations
Directive No. 15/2012 Submitting, checking and archiving of student work at ITB
Superior
regulations:
Code of Disciple at ITB
Related regulations:
Act No. 121/2000 Coll., On Copyright and Related Rights and on Amendments to Other
Acts (the Copyright Act)
Superior
regulations:
Distribution
List ITB Students and academic staff
Prepared by: Mgr. Eva Hynková, m.p. Garant:
Director of Study Administration ad
Lifelong Learning
Signature: Signature:
Ing. Zuzana Rowland,m.p.
Formally verified
by:
Ing. Jaroslav Staněk, m.p. Schválil: Rector
Signature: Signature:
doc. Ing. Marek Vochozka, MBA, Ph.D.,
m. p.
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Section 1
General provisions
(1) This directive defines the manner of submission, plagiarism check, archiving all
students’ works, and archiving data for ascertained plagiarising of students’ works at
ITB.
Section 2
Concept definition
(1) Student’s work is defined as a work in form of a document which the student
elaborated him/herself, or in cooperation with other students or employees, based
on the lecturer’s assignment. Student’s work is also understood as a document which
the student elaborated him/herself, or in cooperation with other students or
employees, and which has taken part in a students’ competition. Plagiarising is
defined as presenting a work of another person as one’s own work, whether partially
or in whole, identical or adapted.
(2) Each author carries full responsibility for abiding the Copyright Act in connection
with the work they elaborated themselves or in cooperation with another author.
(3) The Register of Plagiarisms is understood as a database of students convicted of
plagiarism. It is administered by the Directorate of Study Administration and
Lifelong Learning. The Register can be found in the Information System of ITB
(hereafter „the IS“) and entered only by persons with the right „katal_a“.
Section 3
The manner of submission
(1) Submission, checking and archiving of students’ works can be done only through
the IS. Students’ works are not submitted in a printed version with the exception of
drawings, sketches, calculations and technical reports, which are submitted in a
printed version. Guarantor of the course can however decide on submitting the latter
electronically.
(2) For the purpose of submitting students’ works, the lecturer opens Homework Vaults
(Odevzdávárna) in which students upload their work in the IS for each particular
course.
(3) Students work can have its specifics which the course guarantor shall inform on by
means of annotation in the IS.
(4) Submission of students’ works follows instructions of the course guarantor stated in
the annotation in the IS. The deadline is however the last day of the exam period.
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Section 4
The manner of plagiarism check
(1) In all written works, the author (authors) is obliged to state all sources used,
including web pages. Citing in written texts generally abides by the ČSN ISO 690
regulation. Citing is requested:
a) when paraphrasing a text,
b) when citing another author literally,
c) when adopting definitions, graphs, schemes, charts etc.
The reference must also state the page number(s) of the particular publication.
(2) Students are required to include in each student’s work the following phrase:
“I declare that I have composed this seminar paper/Bachelor thesis/Master thesis
solely by myself except where explicitly stated otherwise in the text.” Without it, the
work cannot be accepted.
(3) In such case that a student does not state the source, the work shall be considered a
plagiarism.
(4) The lecturer is obliged to check students’ works focusing on compliance with the
Copyright Act. For this purpose, they will use the “Vejce vejci” function which is
available in Homework Vaults in the IS.
(5) If the lecturer does not carry out sufficient checking, he or she becomes responsible
for any flaws of the work with all legal consequences.
(6) The IS also enables students to check the work for plagiarising. Each student is
obliged to to check every work before submitting it through the “Vejce vejci” function
in their Depository (Úschovna) in the IS.
Section 5
Detection of plagiarism and subsequent procedure
(1) If the software indicates a match of the submitted text with another, it does not
necessarily mean a plagiarism, and vice versa, if the software does not indicate any
match of the submitted text with another, it does not mean categorically that is not a
plagiarism. Whether it really is a plagiarism or not shall be decided by the lecturer.
(2) If a student submits a seminar paper which will be revealed as a plagiarism:
a) if it is a first case of plagiarising, a plagiarism decision will be issued; the work
will then be entered into the Register of Plagiarism, and the student will
receive an evaluation of the subject N (not counted),
b) the second time a plagiarism is detected with the same student, a proposal
will be made to initiate disciplinary proceedings and this work will then be
entered into the Register of Plagiarism.
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(3) If a student submits a thesis that will be revealed as a plagiarism:
a) if it is a first case of plagiarising, a plagiarism decision will be issued; the work
will then be entered into the Register of Plagiarism, and the student will
receive an evaluation of the subject N (not counted),
b) the second time a plagiarism is detected with the same student, a proposal
will be made to initiate disciplinary proceedings with a proposal to expel the
student from his / her studies for intentionally committing a disciplinary
offence and this work will then be entered into the Register of Plagiarism.
(4) Receiving the decision by the student:
a) The student received the decision about plagiarising into his or her own
hands.
b) The student did not receive the decision about plagiarising into his or her
own hands; the undelivered letter will be returned to the mail room of
ITB. The returned decision will be placed on the Official Notice Board, and
according to § 68 par. 3 No. 111/1998 Code, the decision is considered
delivered after 15 days on the Official Notice Board.
(5) The student can request the Rector of ITB to review the decision within 30 days from
the date of delivery of the decision.
(6) If the student does not request a review of the decision within 30 days from the date
of delivery, the revealed plagiarism in the student's work will result in failure to fulfil
the given obligation (credit, exam, Bachelor thesis defence, etc.) and its entry into the
Register of Plagiarism. In the event that the Directorate of Study Administration and
Lifelong Learning finds out that it is the second plagiarism of the student, the same
procedure as in the case of the first plagiarism will be followed, except that this case
will be handled by the ITB Disciplinary Board.
(7) The evidence on detected plagiarisms shall be transferred from the Directorate of
Study Administration and Lifelong Learning to the Chairman of the Disciplinary
Board. The Disciplinary Board will then propose further steps to the Rector
according to the ITB Disciplinary Code.
Section 6
Archiving of evidence of detected plagiarism
(1) The evidence of detected plagiarism will be archived in the student’s personal file at
the Study Department, where the evidence of that particular plagiarism will be
stored, as well as in the Register of Plagiarism which is stored in the document
server in the IS.
(2) The following information will be entered into the Register of Plagiarism: personal
ident. No (učo), student's name and surname, code of the subject in which plagiarism
was found, period, lecturer, title of work, similarity in%, description of the problem
found, evidence of plagiarism, and date of compliance.
Attachments:
Attachment 1: Expert opinion on plagiarism detected
Attachment 2: Algorithm to detect plagiarism.