Academic integrity

Revision and practice, not assessed work

Revisica is for learning the material and practising for exams. It is not a place to get answers for anything that is marked. Use it to understand a method, check your working on practice questions and find your weak topics. Do not use it to produce work you hand in.

Fine to use it for

• Past papers, tutorial sheets and practice questions, with full worked solutions.
• Lecture study packs, formula sheets, flashcards, quizzes and mock exams.
• Asking the study assistant to explain a method or a slide.
• Getting feedback on your own practice writing in the writing studio.

Not what it is for

• Coursework, lab reports, group reports, online tests or anything else that counts towards your mark.
• Copying a worked solution, or any other text from the site, into work you submit as your own.
• Using the site during a class test or online test unless the test rules allow it.
• Posting or uploading answers to assessed coursework in the forum or Shared files. These are removed.

The study assistant and writing studio guide; they do not write for you

The study assistant is told not to write, solve, rewrite or check final answers for assessed coursework or tests. If you ask it to, it says it cannot, then explains the method, points you to the notes and asks guiding questions. Practice questions, tutorial sheets and past papers are fine to work through in full.

The writing studio gives feedback on writing you have already done: what is working, what to improve and how it reads against a marking scheme. It never writes, rewrites, completes or paraphrases your work. The words you submit have to be yours.

AI tools make mistakes. Treat anything the assistant says the way you would treat a classmate: useful for ideas, but check it against the slides.

Lancaster's rules

Using Revisica, or any other site or AI tool, to cheat breaks the university's rules. Lancaster's Academic Integrity Regulations (Manual of Academic Regulations and Procedures 2026-27, in force from October 2026) treat any attempt to gain an unfair advantage in assessment as academic malpractice. They name, among other things:

• plagiarism, which includes copying directly from model solutions or answers that have been made available;
• false authorship, which includes handing in work generated or improved by AI software without declaring it;
• collusion, including giving another student material so they can get credit they are not entitled to.

Penalties can be serious. Each module can also set its own rules on AI tools and working together, so check the module handbook or ask the lecturer if you are unsure. If you are ever accused of malpractice, the regulations give you the right to support from the Students' Union Advice Service, which is free and confidential.

Worked solutions

Worked solutions here are for questions that are not assessed: past papers, tutorial sheets and practice questions. They are student-written, not official, and can be wrong. See how solutions are checked. If you spot something on the site that looks like answers to current assessed work, please report it with the Contact me box and it will be taken down.

For lecturers

If anything here conflicts with how you assess your module, or you would like material removed or changed, please get in touch through the Contact me box at the bottom of the page. Requests are acted on quickly; see the legal page for takedowns.