Our exams conducted as quizzes in our Canvas accounts, They are all essays based on a legal problem.

The way I answer my essay is that I copy and paste relevant information from the problem given to the text box below. In paper and pencil exams, I used to encircle the information that I think important from the given problem. I can't do this anymore since I can't really highlight on the text of the problem on the screen. When the problem is a few paragraphs long, it can get really hard to remember which information is relevant to the main issue. Also, I copied and pasted the problem portion for my conclusion so that I don't have to type it all over again. Example: "Is X liable for the offense charged." => "X is liable for the offense charged." I just transferred the word 'is'. And here I thought this saved me a lot of time.

There are talks on our schools that the professors can detect through canvas when we copied and pasted something on the text box. This made me really worried because even though I did not cheat, I might get accused of cheating, and I have no way of proving that I did not. I never once left the testing area to open another app or open another tab.