Student defense for academic dishonesty
I wish this were made up but it’s not. We’re in the last 10 minutes of the fourth and final day of a project. A student who has done 0 work during the previous 230 minutes of class time finally starts working on their project. I observe (and take screenshots for proof) this student using ChatGPT to create the contents of their project. Student is informed that they will not receive credit for their project and need to redo it in order to earn credit (I was kind enough to not even do a write up cause that’s a whole other thing). Said student has now approached/ambushed me 3 times since they were caught cheating and continually made the following argument: “Other people did it too!”