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SCASD Online Translator Policy
Acceptable uses for online translators when completing assignments for World Language courses:
-Look up a single word in the dictionary.
-Look up a single word online.
Unacceptable uses:
-Use an online translator to write complete thoughts and sentences.
-Use an online translator to write a paragraph or multiple paragraphs.
The grading consequences are one of the following:
-ZERO on the assignment without the possibility of resubmitting it for a replacement grade.
-Possibility of resubmission of the assignment or an alternative assignment for a maximum of 60% of the highest grade possible.
The disciplinary consequences are:
-Student/parent/grade-level administrator conference.
-4 hours of detention OR one-day in-school suspension.
-No competition or participation in extracurricular activities for one week. Attendance/practice are permitted.
*This is equivalent to having another student do your work and it is considered a LEVEL 3 OFFENSE under the Academic Integrity Policy which states that “submitting a paper as one’s own that has been wholly or mostly written by someone else, whether that paper has been purchased, borrowed, found, stolen, etc.”
**The entire Academic Integrity Policy can be found at the following link: https://www.scasd.org/Page/14193