Blatant Copy/Paste on Final
I feel like crap failing a student on the final. They submitted a clear AI copy paste slop response to the short answer tough question on my final. I allowed it to be open everything since it’s an online course and I believe that AI can be a tool to learn. Wow, I didn’t realize students wouldn’t understand that they can’t just copy and paste answers. This answer was the longest response I have ever seen to a final exam question. It contained formatted tables, code, ascii text and about 5 paragraphs with ten bulleted points. For context, this is a CS course and a perfect score response was a short as 2-3 sentences. Of course they denied the use of AI. Fed up, I just CCd the department chair. Of course they admitted after I got them involved. I never thought I’d have to explicitly say plagiarism is not allowed even if I did allow them to use whatever resources available. It is in the student handbook after all. What are we supposed to do, especially teaching an online course??? Welp, we will see what happens when the chair replies tomorrow. Really bummed out.