Reminds me of a recurring nightmare I have where it’s the last day of senior year and I check my degree progress and see that I somehow forgot to take/complete an English course.
Those are the worst. I used to get the one where it's finals week and I realize I have to take a final for a class I didn't even know was on my schedule.
I get this nightmare all the time. I also get one where I didn’t realize I was in a class until halfway through the semester and I can’t drop it so I have to just take the F
Yes I’m taking a math class online over summer and all exams are in person and it is super easy there’s locations available pretty much everywhere to take and it is very smooth
i have a friend that does that but you genuinely cant see the phone in the recording and hes mastered that art. i dont have the balls to do that though
I'm scared that I'll be accused just by me looking off into the distance lol. On my last exam, my watch triggered because it considered my heart rate to be too high while sitting.
Yeah I hate Lockdown browser. Outside of school, do you know what software is called when it locks your system down until you do something? Ransomware.
that's my fear, I'll stare at my keyboard when im nervous bc I don't know what else to look at and im scared they'll think im cheating because of that 😭
Some distance classes use honorlock or lockdown browser. Both record camera, but honorlock records the screen as well since it's a chrome browser extension.
You have to basically show the phone to the camera or talking to someone ig?
That's what I find most offensive - the lack of elegance in the cheating effort. It's like going to see a magician and they just yell, "Look over there!"
Huh? Turkstra never said that, but yes, there were many ways to cheat in CS240. Including stopping the Git uploads when making on the server. And just simply copying a little bit of code at a time.
Obvs don't know for sure, but my opinion is that they're probably trying to fear monger students into confessing. What I'm worried about is them just shooting off accusations blind and punishing students who did the work legit.
ye. I'm sure they got some damming evidence on a couple people and just decided to shoot their shot with these posts to see if they can catch any more ppl.
whats the passing grade for the class? how badly would a 0 in an exam affect you. whats the passing grade for engineering students (assuming they take most of it) like IE or ME
Yes this looks like a ploy to get people to confess. My guess is they have a couple of sure fire cheaters and unactionable question marks on a handful of others.
I would bet that there are a handful of cases where cheating via AI is incredibly obvious. There's probably also a bunch of cases that look somewhat borderline.
Proving something was paraphrased AI is almost impossible, so this is just cleaner if they can get all of the obvious AI cheaters and at least some of the questionable ones to confess.
Online courses, AI, and financial pressures to pass students create a perfect storm. Employers are losing trust that a degree from a particular program at a particular university represents any level of knowledge or competence. When a product's quality control is eliminated, the perceived value plummets. Why would companies not lean into replacing workers with AI when they suspect the workers they hire are just AI middlemen anyhow?
It's a way to confirm suspicions. This is why you say nothing (unless you are bad at cheating and you left the AI prompt in your answer or your phone came into view, etc).
Hello Ishan Deo, GTA of PHYS 241. I think I can speak for all of my fellow students that no one has cheated on the past exams. I’m personally appalled that you think this would be an issue and trying to bait students into confessing something (that did not occur) on social media is pretty odd.
This makes zero sense to me. We’re allowed to use whatever calculator we want, and scratch work is a necessity (and there's a lot of it). With those two already, you’re prolly going to get a bunch of “looking away” and “handheld device” flags. Heck, Deo's nice enough and lets us have food and drink at our desks too as long as we show it in the environment check. So, I have my doubts that all these flags came from looking at another part of the desk. If he has handheld detection off on the Respondus settings (because we're allowed calculators), it would mean almost all flags would come from “looking away” or other “missing” flags. Leads me to believe this is either a scare tactic from a wildly high average or that some students literally got out of their chairs and/or shoved their phone into the camera.
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i think you just want the thrill of being right and catching a cheater and your delusions being proven correct, ishan. we all know this is your account and it’s frankly embarrassing on your part
i dont know what the correct answer is to this whole ordeal, but the guilty flee when none pursue, so it may be best to stay silent until accused (either falsely or rightfully so) and take action from there.
With accusations, what does the process look like? do they email you with 'proof' and make you defend yourself or...? I genuinely don't understand how this looks from the ODOS/prof side of things, but for students who are wrongly accused I think it would be nerve-racking.
I guess we have a little less than 15 hours til the proposed deadline so here we go.
The process looks like this: The instructor fills out a form (link goes to the actual form for those that want to see what goes in it) which goes to the OSRR. The OSRR looks at it, arranges a meeting with the student, and makes a ruling. Worth noting is that the OSRR goes by "preponderance of evidence" rather than "hard" proof. Essentially, in the OSRR's own words, if it was "more likely than not" that the student committed the alleged violation(s), then the student is found responsible.
The OSRR may impose University-level sanctions in addition to whatever the instructor does. The instructor can ask to be cc'ed on the ruling.
I’ve sat through an OSRR conduct hearing before as an "advisor" (on a non-academic dishonesty case, to be fair). To their credit, the hearing officer gave the student ample opportunity to present the student's side. The student did a fantastic job advocating for themselves and laid out very compelling arguments, yet OSRR still ruled against them anyway. Every case is different, of course, but draw your own conclusions from that.
Whatever the outcome, students always have the right to appeal their grades. Though, that appeal process is handled right back through OSRR.
I got wrongly accused of cheating because two students and I sitting in the same vicinity coincidentally got the exact same answers in a 12-questions multiple choice exam. Drafted a 3-page set of claims and counters with statistics and answer probabilities, and they still rejected my claims.
I decided to opt for a one semester expulsion+F in my exam, the other two students preferred to proceed to Dean court and they got a year expulsion. Over unbased accusations.
The "law system" is so incredibly skewed in universities. Us 3 students were straight-A students as well. Other students who were in fact cheating got away scott free. I redid the exam next semester and got 91.
I got wrongly accused of cheating because two students and I sitting in the same vicinity coincidentally got the exact same answers in a 12-questions multiple choice exam. Drafted a 3-page set of claims and counters with statistics and answer probabilities, and they still rejected my claims.
I decided to opt for a one semester expulsion+F in my exam, the other two students preferred to proceed to Dean court and they got a year expulsion. Over unbased accusations.
The "law system" is so incredibly skewed in universities. Us 3 students were straight-A students as well. Other students who were in fact cheating got away scott free. I redid the exam next semester and got 91.
I got wrongly accused of cheating because two students and I sitting in the same vicinity coincidentally got the exact same answers in a 12-questions multiple choice exam. Drafted a 3-page set of claims and counters with statistics and answer probabilities, and they still rejected my claims.
I decided to opt for a one semester expulsion+F in my exam, the other two students preferred to proceed to Dean court and they got a year expulsion. Over unbased accusations.
The "law system" is so incredibly skewed in universities. Us 3 students were straight-A students as well. Other students who were in fact cheating got away scott free. I redid the exam next semester and got 91.
I got wrongly accused of cheating because two students and I sitting in the same vicinity coincidentally got the exact same answers in a 12-questions multiple choice exam. Drafted a 3-page set of claims and counters with statistics and answer probabilities, and they still rejected my claims.
I decided to opt for a one semester expulsion+F in my exam, the other two students preferred to proceed to Dean court and they got a year expulsion. Over unbased accusations.
The "law system" is so incredibly skewed in universities. Us 3 students were straight-A students as well. Other students who were in fact cheating got away scott free. I redid the exam next semester and got 91.
I got wrongly accused of cheating because two students and I sitting in the same vicinity coincidentally got the exact same answers in a 12-questions multiple choice exam. Drafted a 3-page set of claims and counters with statistics and answer probabilities, and they still rejected my claims.
I decided to opt for a one semester expulsion+F in my exam, the other two students preferred to proceed to Dean court and they got a year expulsion. Over unbased accusations.
The "law system" is so incredibly skewed in universities. Us 3 students were straight-A students as well. Other students who were in fact cheating got away scott free. I redid the exam next semester and got 91.
This is entirely info I (bribed) out of my roommate last year
But apparently the first time it’s a warning
You have to sign some document saying you won’t do it again
And then take some course that you MUST get a 100% on.
But then again, he got caught making up quotes(which is still academic dishonesty funny enough) so i wouldn’t know if it’s the same for cheating on an exam…
probably safest for you to behave like a reasonable person and quit falsely accusing students without solid evidence, ishan. it’s up to you to be “lenient” and give a zero or report. your kindness could save someone’s life and future. with the stick you have so far up your ass and your lack of morals and compassion i doubt you understand that though.
Same course but 2020, like an entire class got put on notice for cheating. We didn’t have ai but people were getting caught. I forget how they figured it out that anyone was cheating though.
either they saw u using phone. or they added a bait question that if u used AI, it would give u an answer: idk how this would work if u use something like Claude Opus or some premium LLM, esp in todays age.
I've had an online writing class where I was emailed directly by the professor saying my writing was flagged for AI, even though all the writing was my own. That was scary. This stuff always freaks me out.
That's honestly his fault if he didn't collect phones at the beginning of the test, which prevents the kid in the back of the class from screwing over the test average by cheating.
I remember testing out of Physics 241. Actually, I tested out of many courses (Acct; Spanish; Italian; Psychology) since I had attended a great high school in Europe.
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Man, this freaked me out. I didn't do anything wrong, but I feel like if I don't admit to it, getting wrongly accused would be even worse.
Granted, I graduated 15 years ago and never took PHYS241, but you can never be too sure who they will go after.