Professor's chart exposes the scale of AI cheating in college exams

https://www.techspot.com/news/113049-professor-chart-exposes-scale-ai-cheating-college-exams.html

However, Serrano soon noticed signs that something was amiss. When 86 students signed up for his welfare economics course that semester, compared to the usual 30, he suspected that many had taken it because he allowed take-home exams, providing them the opportunity to use ChatGPT or similar AI tools.

The professor's suspicions were just about confirmed when the midterm scores averaged 96%. This was far above the typical range of 65% to 80% despite Serrano's efforts to make the test more difficult to account for the students' unlimited time.

He gave a take-home midterm exam, and the ave. score was 96 percent. He gave an in-person final exam, and the scores ranged from 65 to 80 percent.

The implication is that teachers will now have to use more class time for in-person exams, handwritten drafts for papers, etc., plus do things like oral reports with almost no notes allowed, seminar-type classes, and so on in order to limit the use of AI (and probably even computers and similar devices connected to the 'net) for cheating.

Submitted July 12, 2026 at 06:45AM by FickleApartment2151 https://ift.tt/fEbOq7M

I just failed my baccalaureate year and i'm currently 20 yrs old, i'm feeling left behind.

so i'm coming from a developing country....as the title says, they say university has no age dedicated to it, but i'm heavily feeling like i'm being left behind on the matter of entourage, like when I get to university all my peers will be way younger than me, i'm 2006 they're 2009, furthermore it'll be harder to socialize with them, make friends, relationships......etc...etc, I failed only 1 year in highschool, and another one in middle, and now it's baccalaureate that's 3 years, and plus i'm gonna be ejected from school so i'll be doing it as a "free candidate" and when i do the courses everyone will be younger than me...how will it work out, there's also the plan of me and my friend getting the baccalaureate together and going abroa.d, and it all seems like falling down....will it work out ?

ps: just realised that this sub is regarding American schools and yall got a credit system that prevents you from failing an entire year only repeating the subject you failed in the time after.

which got yall wondering how tf did this guy fail too many years xd.

...in my country there's a point system which counts all the points you've got from each subjects...there's a threshold that the points must reach and if they don't then you'll fail the whole year...the same way being "held back" works for your elementary schools..

just want help...if you were in my shoes how would you think...act.

Submitted July 12, 2026 at 06:03AM by AdPuzzleheaded6577 https://ift.tt/eUymdC3

I just failed my baccalaureate year and i'm currently 20 yrs old

so i'm coming from a developing country....as the title says, they say university has no age dedicated to it, but i'm heavily feeling like i'm being left behind on the matter of entourage, like when I get to university all my peers will be way younger than me, i'm 2006 they're 2009, furthermore it'll be harder to socialize with them, make friends, relationships......etc...etc, I failed only 1 year in highschool, and another one in middle, and now it's baccalaureate that's 3 years, and plus i'm gonna be ejected from school so i'll be doing it as a "free candidate" and when i do the courses everyone will be younger than me...how will it work out, there's also the plan of me and my friend getting the baccalaureate together and going abroa.d, and it all seems like falling down....will it work out ?

ps: just realised that this sub is regarding american schools and yall got a credit system prevents you from failing an entire year only repeating the subject you failed in the time after that

which got yall wondering how tf did this guy fail too many years.

...in my country there's a point system which counts all the points you've got from all subjects...there's a threshold that the points must reach and if they don't then you'll fail the whole year...the same way being "held back" works for your elementary schools..

Submitted July 12, 2026 at 05:29AM by AdPuzzleheaded6577 https://ift.tt/WUKnSA1

Who has done EFP12 ONLINE THROUGH NIDES

What mark did you get
Who was your teacher
Were the marks fairly given

Submitted July 11, 2026 at 11:40AM by Efficient_Reading561 https://ift.tt/d2Qc7X0

What's one classroom rule you swore you'd never have... until you started teaching?

When I first started teaching, I wanted my classroom to feel relaxed.

I imagined students would naturally stay engaged if the lessons were interesting enough, so I avoided making too many rules.

That lasted maybe a week.

After a while, I realized a lot of rules were not really about control. They were about making sure 30 different people could actually learn in the same room.

Assigned seating reduced distractions. Phone restrictions kept students present. Small routines like raising a hand before speaking or waiting until everyone was quiet saved more time than I expected.

I used to think some of my own teachers were just being strict for the sake of it.

Now I understand that a rule can look pointless from the student side and still be doing a lot of quiet work for the classroom.

It reminded me of my own attention after work too. If I tell myself I'll just check bcg for a minute, suddenly that tiny exception becomes a routine.

For teachers or people who work in education, what rule did you dislike at first but later realize was actually necessary?

Submitted July 11, 2026 at 09:07AM by Impressive-Prune6339 https://ift.tt/vKO056w

GroupMark - free Gradescope alternative

I'm a high school Physics teacher. I've been using Gradescope to help mark tests and exams for years, but it has some missing features and is (now) crazy expensive. So I vibe coded an alternative.

GroupMark is a Windows app, rather than a website. No student data leaves the user's device.

The teacher makes a class, and assigns students to the class. They can have email addresses, or can just be names.

Then the workflow for each task is:

• Create a task, and 'upload' a blank copy of the test to be marked.
• Manually highlight answer regions, and assign each one a maximum score. (Or let AI do it for you.) (!)
• Students complete the test as usual on paper. Scan them with a photocopier and upload the pdf to GroupMark.
• GroupMark splits the bulk upload(s) into individual tests.
• Using local handwriting recognition, GroupMark tries to pair students with their own test. Or you can do it manually. (This works really well on my Mac; less well on Windows.)
• The teacher marks the tests, question by question. GroupMark can try to automatically group similar answers, to speed this up (locally). AI can also suggest possible answers and marking schemes. Importantly, the teacher does the marking and can do all this manually, override the suggestions, etc. Again, no student data leaves the device. (!)
• Alternately to all of this, you can also generate and mark multiple choice question bubble sheets, all locally on device. (!)
• Questions can also be tagged, eg with content descriptors, skills, performance standards they address, etc. This can also be manual or done by AI. (!)
• When the test is marked, the teacher can see a detailed breakdown. Average scores for each question, scores by student, scores by tag.
• The teacher can optionally send marked versions of the tests to students, if student emails and a teacher email login have been added.
• Tags can be used on multiple tasks, so you can see how a student is progressing with a particular skill or concept over the year. (!)

Lots of these features (!) are missing from Gradescope - the grouping answers is a paid feature, but all of the AI-assisted features have to be done manually on Gradescope, and Gradescope’s tagging is pretty limited (and manual).

I was originally planning on monetising this but decided that was, frankly, too hard. Schools don't like using untested software. So it's free. You can find GroupMark on the Windows Store.

Let me know if you have any questions, happy to explain my logic or do any troubleshooting.

Submitted July 11, 2026 at 07:45AM by ThePatchedFool https://ift.tt/vcCKrMY

Is AI actually making students worse at sitting with confusion?

Something keeps coming up in conversations about learning and I'm curious if others are seeing it too. When students hit a hard problem now, the instinct is to immediately ask an AI rather than just stewing in the discomfort for a while before figuring it out yourself. That struggle period, even when it feels unproductive, is where a lot of real learning happens. The frustration is kind of the point.

It's not that AI tools are bad in every context. But there's a difference between using one to check your thinking versus using one to skip the part where you have to think at all. A lot of students seem to be landing firmly in the second camp, and it's hard to blame them when the tool is right there.

What bothers me more is that this might be eroding something harder to measure than test scores. The ability to tolerate not knowing something for a few hours and keep working anyway. That capacity matters a lot beyond school.

Curious whether teachers or students here have noticed this shift, and whether anyone has found a way to actually address it in a classroom setting without just banning devices entirely.

Submitted July 10, 2026 at 01:51PM by WickedKing94 https://ift.tt/cUBjEAp