Below are examples where the recognition of the creative author of the idea is overlooked:

• Copy information from other students in an individual exam.
• Using unauthorized notes or tools to answer exam questions.
• Present as their own, partially or totally a document prepared by another person.
• Present individually, a work prepared in group or with the collaboration of other people.
• Elaborate a work containing multiple documents, without referencing or citing the authors.
• To re-elaborate a specific idea that is not one's own, without making an indirect cite.
• Copy ideas, concepts, designs, statistics, images, photographs, results of studies or research analysis.

There are different types of plagium, some are committed intentionally or accidentally. When plagium is committed without being aware of it, people often: incorrectly citing, take the idea of another, but do not remember or identify where they omit the citation or bibliographic reference.

• Credibility is lost to the person and / or entity to which the document containing plagiarism is being submitted.
• Depending on the legislation corresponding to the territory in which the case is presented, it could lead to legal and / or criminal problems.
• There could be a penalty in the editorial in which the document is being presented with plagium, compromising the academic record of the person involved.
• The person who committed plagium could be expelled from the institution in which he studies or works, be it plagium in the academic or work environment.
• If a document is presented with the name of an entity, it may affect its institutional image.

According to the Uniandino student regulation "academic fraud is the behavior of a student that violates the rules of the University or the rules established by the evaluator, in the development of an academic activity". The following behaviors, among others, configure academic fraud:

Disciplinary regime:

a) Copy all or part of exams, homework and other academic activities.
b) Using false cites or references, or there is no match between the citation  and the reference.
c) Present as their own authorship all or part of a work, work, document or invention made by another person, incorporate a work of others in their own, so as to mislead the observer or reader as to the authorship of it.

Consult here the Uniandino Students Regulations for undergraduate and postgraduate studies.