A professor used white font to hide instructions to throw off students using an AI chatbot to cheat on their midterm.

  • steelplatedmech@piefed.ca
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    10 days ago

    Platform specific to windows and mac devices. Thing is if a university wants to create a hard to cheat environment while refusing to do paper exams that is the best option available.

    Alternative is choosing to administer exams on personal electronics while doing nothing to prevent access to internet, notes, and software yet asking students to not use it.

    That is just naive. And this has been the standard at least where I went to school even before AI. It’s not like laptops and smartphones are something new. Its been ubiquitous over a decade now. Yet, some schools act like they’ve never dealt with it before just because of AI when even prior to AI teachers were well aware of the cheating capabilities of electronics. Even graphing calculators.

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      10 days ago

      That is just naive.

      Correct. There are two operating systems people use, the rest don’t matter.

      while refusing to do paper exams

      Refuse? Why?

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        One teacher here when I brought up paper exams said they find it a hassle to grade.

        Mind you I’m not approaching this from a privacy or consumer advocates position. But, as a general university that doesn’t care about that and is just choosing among options available to try to make cheating more difficult.

        I’m more just amazed at how lax electronics in classes has become during exams more than anything.