All OriGym Students Must:

• Demonstrate honesty and integrity.
• Respect the differences in people, their ideas and opinions.
• Treat one another with respect and dignity, especially when there is disagreement.
• Respect and treat others fairly.
• Respect the rights of others.
• Demonstrate respect for others, especially those in positions of authority.
• Respect the need of others to work in an environment that is conducive to learning and teaching in an online setting.
• Be courteous and polite at all times in electronic mail exchanges, telephone calls and face-to-face meetings.
• Respect the integrity of all online systems and networks.
• Respect all copyright laws.
• Respect the personal information and privacy of others.
• Be active and engaged participants in the learning programme.
• Courteously follow directions from teaching and administrative staff.

Unacceptable Behaviour

All OriGym Students Must Not:

• Engage in bullying or aggressive behaviour.
• Threaten or intimidate others.
• Engage in behaviours motivated by hate or bias.
• Commit any act of vandalism that causes damage to OriGym property, both physical and electronic, including software. As well as the property of OriGym third-party partners.
• Create a disturbance which interrupts or disrupts the proceedings of the workshop, assessment or any learning environment.
• Engage in any behaviour that would be considered as conduct injurious to the moral tone of OriGym or injurious to the physical or mental well-being of others.
• Misrepresent an identity or assume the identity of another by using login credentials other than those specifically assigned. This includes using email or login information issued to another, including family members as well as practical workshops and assessments.

Students Can Expect That:

Appropriate and progressive discipline will result when the code of conduct rules and routines are violated.

Login privileges will be revoked at the discretion of OriGym Directors for acts deemed injurious to the moral tone of the company [OriGym], injurious to the physical or mental well-being of any other member of the OriGym Community.

Expulsion may be considered for any act considered by the Directors of OriGym to be significantly injurious to the moral tone of the company [OriGym] and/or to the physical well-being of others or for any conduct which is so refractory as to demonstrate that the student is unwilling to respect or respond to authority and/or respect the rights or dignity of other OriGym staff or students despite having been given reasonable opportunity to do so.

In Addition, All Students Must Not:

• Share login credentials with anyone else.
• Knowingly upload any file or programme that contains a virus, malware or other malicious code.
• Reproduce course content, including assessments, electronic mail correspondence, digital captures, discussion or chat threads in any fashion and to any other server without explicit written permission from the OriGym Directors.
• Use anyone else’s login account.
• Write, use, send, download or display any information that is hostile, insulting to others, obscene, threatening, or otherwise offensive.
• Discuss in any open forum information that is critical of another student or tutor/assessor.
• Discussion forums and chat threads are open to all school members and not appropriate mediums for private correspondence.

Engage in any of the following acts of academic misconduct:

• Cheating: The act or attempted act of deception, in which a participant falsely represents that he or she has learned information in an academic exercise including unauthorized collaboration with others.
• Plagiarism: Representing the words, data or ideas of another as one’s own in any academic exercise. This includes the use of AI software and chatbots (such as ChatGPT) to generate your work.
• Collusion: Intentionally or knowingly helping or attempting to help another commit academic misconduct such as substituting for a test or completing an assignment for someone else. Collaborating with others while taking online tests or similar summative evaluation.