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[tkallman]

Pardon my logic, but if a student leaves the quiz 125 times while taking a 125-question multiple-choice quiz, should I consider the difficulty the student is encountering with my quiz?

Is it not an issue of integrity when this happens and the student answers 125 questions correctly?

I realize there is no definitive proof of cheating, but what if I have a policy that forbids a student from leaving the quiz (such as not being able to go to the bathroom while taking an in-class exam) and penalizes them for doing so?

With the uncritical adoption of AI, maintaining integrity, especially in an online class, is a daunting task and often virtually impossible. Of course, it goes with the territory, considering we are living in one of the most dishonest, immoral eras in American history.

[Gabriel33 · Accepted solution]

It's possible that they were indeed copying the question to an LLM each time, or sending it to a tutor via some chat, and then answering afterwards.
But it's also possible that a Windows Update notification popped up asking to restart the computer, coincidentally, 125 times (or some other application). This makes it hard to punish the student from just leaving the exam page.
And students can easily cheat by using a different computer or a phone to search for solutions, you'd never find that out from the quiz log.

Take-home exams were always easy to cheat on and hard for professors to stop. LLMs just democratized access to cheating (before, you may have needed a paid tutor to help).
I'd say this makes the current era significantly more "moral" than 5 years ago at least in the sense of fairness between students, and the students are not any more "dishonest" than they were 50 years ago, they just have easier access to cheating choices.

Third party solutions like LockDown Browser may help, but the only real solution to stop cheating is having in person exams, perhaps on paper (or on computers with a monitoring software, but still in person).

[JeffCampbell · Accepted solution]

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@Gabriel33 wrote:

It's possible that they were indeed copying the question to an LLM each time, or sending it to a tutor via some chat, and then answering afterwards.
But it's also possible that a Windows Update notification popped up asking to restart the computer, coincidentally, 125 times (or some other application). This makes it hard to punish the student from just leaving the exam page.
And students can easily cheat by using a different computer or a phone to search for solutions, you'd never find that out from the quiz log.

Take-home exams were always easy to cheat on and hard for professors to stop. LLMs just democratized access to cheating (before, you may have needed a paid tutor to help).
I'd say this makes the current era significantly more "moral" than 5 years ago at least in the sense of fairness between students, and the students are not any more "dishonest" than they were 50 years ago, they just have easier access to cheating choices.

Third party solutions like LockDown Browser may help, but the only real solution to stop cheating is having in person exams, perhaps on paper (or on computers with a monitoring software, but still in person).

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I think your solution is spot on when in-person exams are doable. I would add that doing performance assessments is another great alternative, when the curriculum enables opportunities to do so. This can also reveal past cheating when a student with excellent work suddenly cannot do the presented task. 

[Gabriel33 · Accepted solution]

It's possible that they were indeed copying the question to an LLM each time, or sending it to a tutor via some chat, and then answering afterwards.
But it's also possible that a Windows Update notification popped up asking to restart the computer, coincidentally, 125 times (or some other application). This makes it hard to punish the student from just leaving the exam page.
And students can easily cheat by using a different computer or a phone to search for solutions, you'd never find that out from the quiz log.

Take-home exams were always easy to cheat on and hard for professors to stop. LLMs just democratized access to cheating (before, you may have needed a paid tutor to help).
I'd say this makes the current era significantly more "moral" than 5 years ago at least in the sense of fairness between students, and the students are not any more "dishonest" than they were 50 years ago, they just have easier access to cheating choices.

Third party solutions like LockDown Browser may help, but the only real solution to stop cheating is having in person exams, perhaps on paper (or on computers with a monitoring software, but still in person).

[JeffCampbell · Accepted solution]

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@Gabriel33 wrote:

It's possible that they were indeed copying the question to an LLM each time, or sending it to a tutor via some chat, and then answering afterwards.
But it's also possible that a Windows Update notification popped up asking to restart the computer, coincidentally, 125 times (or some other application). This makes it hard to punish the student from just leaving the exam page.
And students can easily cheat by using a different computer or a phone to search for solutions, you'd never find that out from the quiz log.

Take-home exams were always easy to cheat on and hard for professors to stop. LLMs just democratized access to cheating (before, you may have needed a paid tutor to help).
I'd say this makes the current era significantly more "moral" than 5 years ago at least in the sense of fairness between students, and the students are not any more "dishonest" than they were 50 years ago, they just have easier access to cheating choices.

Third party solutions like LockDown Browser may help, but the only real solution to stop cheating is having in person exams, perhaps on paper (or on computers with a monitoring software, but still in person).

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I think your solution is spot on when in-person exams are doable. I would add that doing performance assessments is another great alternative, when the curriculum enables opportunities to do so. This can also reveal past cheating when a student with excellent work suddenly cannot do the presented task. 

[dbrace · Accepted solution]

Hi @tkallman,

Unforunately without knowing the student or having a conversation with them, we in the Canvas Community are not able to really say much more.

What I would say is that tools like Respondus LockDown Browser and its optional Respondus Monitor come with the ability to (1) lock a computer/device to just LDB, (2) record a webcam, (3) record a microphone, (4) record the student's screen, and (5) require student's to take pictures of their work (helpful for Math and Science courses when solving equations) while completing the quiz/test/exam. When those options and artifacts are combined together, they are provide deterances and evidence related to academic integrity.

-Doug