 Students will be empowered to maintain high academic integrity standards if they are given information and direction on how to do so. Students need to know practical information about academic integrity at a general program or module level, but also at a specific assignment level too. Let's look at how you might do this by taking DCU's virtual learning environment loop as an example. It's a good idea to add some specific direction about avoiding academic integrity breaches to your loop assignment. Click turn editing on. Navigate to the section of the page where you place your assessment information. Then click add an activity or resource and select assignment. Give the assignment a title. The description field of the assignment is a useful area to display key information for students. This description field remains visible for students at all times when they are in the loop assignment, so the key information is always there for them. Let's use this description field to give students direction. Write a 1500 word essay in response to this statement. Wolf Tone was wrong to look to the French for assistance in 1798. The DCU policy on academic integrity and plagiarism is applicable to this assignment. Use the Harvard style for citations and references. Consult the academic integrity supports on this module's loop course page for help. In particular, remember that historical images need to be cited and referenced correctly. Remember that all quotes from historical figures need to be cited and referenced correctly. Configure the rest of your settings for this assignment and then click save and return to course when finished. Now, when students go to the loop assignment, they see specific direction about avoiding academic integrity breaches related to this particular piece of work.