eSchool News

APRIL 3, 2025

As educators, it is important to understand the underlying causes of this behavior and develop assessments that encourage academic integrity. Do you support student use of AI in school and/or for assignments? Solution for teachers : Teachers can foster a culture of integrity by establishing trust and open communication.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 27, 2022

This also allows students to have more flexibility in their schedule so they can work on assignments at their own pace, or take a break if they need to. For example, what do your teachers and staff do when a student stops responding or submitting assignments?

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

Students cheating on assignments is hardly a new or surprising problem. In research and surveys conducted by Dr. Donald McCabe and the International Center for Academic Integrity over the span of 12 years, 68 percent of undergraduates who responded admitted to cheating on tests or written assignments.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 9, 2020

Many misconceptions circle around plagiarism checkers, but in reality, plagiarism checkers improve the cooperation, communication, and collaboration between educators and students. On top of that, when all assignments equally go through a plagiarism check, the competition becomes fair again. Conclusion.

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Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 5, 2023

The rise of ChatGPT, Google Bard, New Bing, and others in the academic space, however, is skyrocketing. As I scanned topics like academic integrity, academic dishonesty, and plagiarism, I quickly adopted others’ persuasive opinions based on limited information. My initial encounters with this rising AI were biased.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Since teachers grade so many papers and assignments, many educators see that as an unacceptable level of error. For some assignments, she has asked students to install an extension for their web browser called Revision History and then grant her access. Opting in doesnt make sense in this situation, she argues.

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Faculty Focus

AUGUST 1, 2023

ChatGPT was just the first in a wave of new AI tools designed to mimic human communication via text. Should you redesign your academic integrity syllabus statement or does your current one suffice? Should you change the way you give exams and design assignments? Redesigning academic integrity statements is essential.

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Faculty Focus

AUGUST 1, 2023

ChatGPT was just the first in a wave of new AI tools designed to mimic human communication via text. Should you redesign your academic integrity syllabus statement or does your current one suffice? Should you change the way you give exams and design assignments? Redesigning academic integrity statements is essential.

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Academic Integrity Plagiarism Exams Disabilities 98

Edsurge

JANUARY 23, 2017

In 2014, Turnitin acquired LightSide with a mandate to help shift Turnitin’s focus from academic integrity tools to those that emphasize student writing. It deemphasizes the role of essay writing and communication—the stuff that in fact is probably more valuable for the majority of students. In 2013, he left the Ph.D.

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Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 5, 2023

The rise of ChatGPT, Google Bard, New Bing, and others in the academic space, however, is skyrocketing. As I scanned topics like academic integrity, academic dishonesty, and plagiarism, I quickly adopted others’ persuasive opinions based on limited information. My initial encounters with this rising AI were biased.

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Intelligence Plagiarism Quizzes Academic Integrity 111

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 21, 2025

Scaffolded assignments: Break significant projects into smaller, more manageable parts, such as proposals, annotated bibliographies, and rough drafts, to reduce student anxiety and provide opportunities for meaningful feedback at each step, improving learning outcomes (Ambrose, 2010).

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

For instance, custom paper-writing services offer students work tailored exactly to what the professor has assigned. Typically, they should have access to tutoring and other support, writing and communication centers and counseling services on their campuses.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 23, 2020

But the marketing language on these sites boast of providing papers tailor made for an assignment, and promise to keep the communication with customers secret. The assignment was done on time, grammar was perfect, the quality was on the highest level. The sales pitch is all about doing the work of students for them.

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Faculty Focus

AUGUST 3, 2023

Part 2 discusses how you can redesign assignments using the TRUST model to serve as a pedagogical tool. Redesigning assignments can reduce the potential for cheating with AI. You can redesign assignments to address many of these issues. Students want to know why they are being asked to do what you have assigned them to do.

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Faculty Focus

AUGUST 3, 2023

Part 2 discusses how you can redesign assignments using the TRUST model to serve as a pedagogical tool. Redesigning assignments can reduce the potential for cheating with AI. You can redesign assignments to address many of these issues. Students want to know why they are being asked to do what you have assigned them to do.

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Failure Academic Integrity Assignments Universal Design 98

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 3, 2023

While students have, for decades, had the opportunity to hire a human writer to complete essay assignments, online AI software services can write essays instantly at prices that range from free to about $50 per month. For now, though, we asked AI itself to tell us how to address its threats to academic integrity.

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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 21, 2025

Scaffolded assignments: Break significant projects into smaller, more manageable parts, such as proposals, annotated bibliographies, and rough drafts, to reduce student anxiety and provide opportunities for meaningful feedback at each step, improving learning outcomes (Ambrose, 2010).

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Plagiarism Syllabus Ethics Feedback 98

Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 29, 2023

Become acquainted with your librarian If you have not yet done so, become acquainted with the librarian assigned to your discipline. Include in the conversation a copy of a draft syllabus, required assignments, and any concerns you have about academic integrity. This could be quite a revealing discussion. Faculty Focus.

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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 24, 2023

A new way to write their course policy on academic integrity or late assignments. I want them to take ownership over their learning and their time and assignments.” “I Express care for your students in your descriptions, communications, and policies. Language for the disability statement in their syllabus.

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Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Proponents of AI claim that AI tools should be integrated into lesson design, however, it is also the case that AI may be used by students as an unethical shortcut to wholly complete written assignments. The results of this project do not provide an indubitable foundation to address academic integrity concerns.

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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 24, 2023

A new way to write their course policy on academic integrity or late assignments. I want them to take ownership over their learning and their time and assignments.” “I Express care for your students in your descriptions, communications, and policies. Language for the disability statement in their syllabus.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

This partnership “helps bridge the gap that currently exists between curriculum, instruction, assessment and intervention,” (says Kiddom’s chief academic officer Abbas Manjee). It places a premium on communication, collaboration, and social-emotional learning while Incorporating student goal-setting and reflection.

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Faculty Focus

MARCH 26, 2024

By the time the summit occurred on February 15, 2023, ChatGPT had more than 100 million unique users, as well as an alleged 30% of higher education students who had already used it for assignments—thus far, it’s the fastest-ever consumer application in history (Chen, 2023). This is an important skill!

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Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Proponents of AI claim that AI tools should be integrated into lesson design, however, it is also the case that AI may be used by students as an unethical shortcut to wholly complete written assignments. The results of this project do not provide an indubitable foundation to address academic integrity concerns.

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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 3, 2023

While students have, for decades, had the opportunity to hire a human writer to complete essay assignments, online AI software services can write essays instantly at prices that range from free to about $50 per month. For now, though, we asked AI itself to tell us how to address its threats to academic integrity.

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Essay Plagiarism Writing Ethics 98

Scholarly Teacher

JANUARY 29, 2025

2016) and enhance their communication skills (Goff & Lahme, 2003). Much of the existing literature on learning assistantships focuses on four-year institutions, but we assert that it can provide similar benefits for community college students. 2021; Close et al., Physical Review Physics Education Research, 12 (1). Ellerbrock, C.,

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EAB

DECEMBER 18, 2023

In the course of tackling one of the tasks it was assigned, GPT-4 independently reached out via TaskRabbit for help solving a CAPTCHA. It’s no secret that many high schoolers are already using ChatGPT for their academic work, and it’s reasonable to suppose they’re also using AI to prepare their college applications.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 5, 2023

After all, students can now enter any assigned question into an AI chatbot and get a perfectly formatted, five-paragraph essay back ready to turn in (well, after a little massaging to take out any AI “hallucinations”). As educators have looked to alternatives to assigning essays, one idea that has bubbled up is to bring back oral exams. "I

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