Chapter 15 Academic Integrity and Shortcuts in an Automated Management Accounting Course Management System

This chapter reports on the use of a computerized classroom system that managed practice problems, quizzes, and exams. In that the student interface was comprehensively intermediated by computerized Internet-based technology, it presents issues that would be similar to distance education. Various methods used by students to exploit the properties of the system to earn advantage and to purposefully bypass its controls are described. These include behaviors that are academically dishonorable, albeit not clearly infractions, and as well as those that are clear violations of academic integrity. This chapter uses examples from an introductory management accounting course taught at a large public university in the Southeastern United States, but could relate to coursework in any accounting subject. It is based on the many years of experience of one of the authors in trying to stay one step ahead of students through programming and system design.