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Free COVID-19 testing is now available to Chabot-Las Positas Community College District students, employees, and the community. Appointments are required for COVD-19 testing and can be made at norcalcovid19testing.com.

Due to unhealthy air quality, the campus will be closed on August 24th, 2020. All virtual services and classes will continue as normal.

CLPCCD email is currently unavailable for some District and College users. ITS has identified the problem and is working diligently to resolve the issue. We do not have an estimated time of resolution of this matter. We will update you as necessary. Thank you for your patience.

COVID-19 Response: Las Positas College has transitioned to Online Classes and Services. Details and Resources Here.

The Zone Student Portal is unavailable. However, you can still access Class-Web and Zonemail.

Congratulations Class of 2020! Although the in-person commencement ceremony is being postponed to a later date, you deserve to be honored and celebrated now!

Employee Email: Due to multiple email issues, the deadline for submitting grades has been extended to 11:00 pm Thursday, May 28, 2020. ITS understands the difficult timing of these issues for communicating with students and is working to restore the problem server as quickly as possible. These servers will be replaced over the Summer.

Academic Integrity
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Model Essays

Some websites provide access to sample essays on a particular subject or actual essays that were written for a particular class in response to a particular prompt. There are many reasons that accessing and providing these essays is unethical and contrary to colleges’ academic honesty policies:

  • Students can only access the essays provided on the website’s platform for free if they provide essays and other work that they have completed for past classes. If a student provides access to an essay they have written without the instructor’s knowledge, this means that other students in that instructor’s class may use the essay. It is against LPC’s policy for students to aid others in cheating or plagiarism.
  • For their part, the students who use the essay in crafting their own are also cheating, because they are getting help on the essay assignment without their instructor’s knowledge from a source the instructor has not approved.
  • In addition, students who use the essay are plagiarizing because they are unable to cite the work of the student whose work they are using. Putting the wording in quotation marks is not sufficient, and changing the wording serves to hide the plagiarism, not help the student avoid it.
  • Even if the identities of the students uploading their work are not hidden, the student has a disincentive to cite them because it would then be obvious that the student is cheating.
  • Finally, the student who uploads their own work to these websites is giving away the copyright to their work. As it will usually say in fine print, the website can then use the student’s work however it pleases.

Only use model essays for inspiration under the supervision of your instructor, who will often provide model essays, or a trained university writing center tutor. Keep in mind also that the quality of “model” essays found on these websites may not be high—they are not vetted by the website.

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