Faculty Focus

MAY 9, 2024

Would you let your students submit a paper where 5% of the text was written by ChatGPT? The rise of generative AI tools like ChatGPT, Copilot, Claude, Gemini, DALL-E, and Meta AI has created a pressing new challenge for educators: defining academic integrity in the age of AI. Or, if they cited ChatGPT as a source?

Academic Integrity 98

Academic Integrity Writing Syllabus Exams 98

eSchool News

AUGUST 17, 2022

What solidified my passion for education were the “ah-ha” moments, or those moments when at first a student struggled, and then, after teaching them in a way they could relate to, seeing their eyes light up from the excitement of learning. How will your staff communicate with students who aren’t submitting assignments?

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Exams Schools Academic Integrity Communication 246

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

As college classes start up this fall, instructors are handing out syllabi and pointing students to official platforms for turning in assignments and participating in class discussions. Students increasingly turn to private systems to create online groups around individual college classes.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

The most controversial new tech tool for colleges since the start of the pandemic is automated proctoring, which aims to detect cheating on online exams by using algorithms that watch students via their webcam and look for suspicious patterns of behavior—often sending clips of questionable moments to professors for later review.

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Edsurge

MAY 27, 2021

Many students and even some schools have pushed back against the practice , especially objecting to automated services that rely on algorithms that watch students via their webcam and look for suspicious patterns of behavior—sending clips of questionable moments to professors for later review.

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Exams Distance Learning Academic Integrity Testing 176

Edsurge

OCTOBER 28, 2021

It’s the first time ever that the list looks at students as not just learners or customers, she added—but as humans. Amid the chorus of concern, a note of dissonance sounded from the exhibit hall, where controversial test-proctoring tools and services were prominently displayed and their booths generously staffed.

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Exams Academic Integrity Testing Instructors 213

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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Faculty Focus

MAY 1, 2025

I taught a group of students unlike any I had taught over the span of my long teaching experience in diverse settings and institutions. The students portrayed an exceptional level of behavioral engagement. At the end of my visit, I left those students and went back home to my regular educational setting.

Academic Integrity 101

Academic Integrity Multiple Choice Questions Learning Students 101

Faculty Focus

MAY 1, 2025

I taught a group of students unlike any I had taught over the span of my long teaching experience in diverse settings and institutions. The students portrayed an exceptional level of behavioral engagement. At the end of my visit, I left those students and went back home to my regular educational setting.

Academic Integrity 89

Academic Integrity Multiple Choice Questions Learning Students 89

Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 5, 2023

As I scanned topics like academic integrity, academic dishonesty, and plagiarism, I quickly adopted others’ persuasive opinions based on limited information. Students were already using it as a tool, so I opened my mind to understanding what purpose AI served in the higher education classroom.

Intelligence 144

Intelligence Plagiarism Quizzes Academic Integrity 144

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 1, 2023

With increasing access to different types of AI chatbots, and increasing advances in AI technology, “preventing student cheating via AI” has risen to the top of the list of faculty concerns for 2023 (Lucariello, 2023). Should you redesign your academic integrity syllabus statement or does your current one suffice?

Academic Integrity 98

Academic Integrity Plagiarism Exams Disabilities 98

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 1, 2023

With increasing access to different types of AI chatbots, and increasing advances in AI technology, “preventing student cheating via AI” has risen to the top of the list of faculty concerns for 2023 (Lucariello, 2023). Should you redesign your academic integrity syllabus statement or does your current one suffice?

Academic Integrity 98

Academic Integrity Plagiarism Exams Disabilities 98

Edsurge

MARCH 5, 2020

She didn’t really pay attention to the goal of the site—which is for students to share their notes and other class materials. Soon someone from the company reached out to her to offer her full access to the site for free, which costs students either $39.95 She saw it as a resource for her teaching. “I I found some homework questions.

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Study Exams Quizzes Academic Integrity 134

Edsurge

JULY 11, 2023

William Quarterman, a student at the University of California at Davis, was accused of cheating. His professor said he’d used ChatGPT to take a history exam, the charge buttressed by GPTZero, one of the many new tools that have emerged to try to detect student use of generative AI systems.

Plagiarism 123

Plagiarism Academic Integrity Intelligence Instructors 123

Faculty Focus

MAY 2, 2023

The few years of operating in a pandemic saw higher education institutions heightening their efforts in online proctoring, ensuring academic integrity, and earnest longing for “things to return to normal.” What if my students decide to use this app?

Education 116

Education Academic Integrity Fairness Exams 116

Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Survey data from Best Colleges reveals that as of March this year, 22 percent of students admitted using ChatGPT to complete an assignment or exam, with 57 percent indicating they intend to use AI tools for future coursework. Meaningful, productive dialogue can help.

Minute Papers 134

Minute Papers Instructors Students Assignments 134

Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 5, 2023

As I scanned topics like academic integrity, academic dishonesty, and plagiarism, I quickly adopted others’ persuasive opinions based on limited information. Students were already using it as a tool, so I opened my mind to understanding what purpose AI served in the higher education classroom.

Intelligence 111

Intelligence Plagiarism Quizzes Academic Integrity 111

Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Survey data from Best Colleges reveals that as of March this year, 22 percent of students admitted using ChatGPT to complete an assignment or exam, with 57 percent indicating they intend to use AI tools for future coursework. Meaningful, productive dialogue can help.

Minute Papers 119

Minute Papers Instructors Students Assignments 119

Faculty Focus

MAY 2, 2023

The few years of operating in a pandemic saw higher education institutions heightening their efforts in online proctoring, ensuring academic integrity, and earnest longing for “things to return to normal.” What if my students decide to use this app?

Education 98

Education Academic Integrity Fairness Exams 98

Edsurge

DECEMBER 12, 2019

The college counseling company at the heart of the “Varsity Blues” cheating scandal did more than just help students get into college through fraudulent means. It also had its employees pose as students to take online courses for them once they were enrolled, to make sure they passed.

Counselling 148

Counselling Plagiarism Exams Study 148

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 3, 2023

I came up with the TRUST model to serve as a pedagogical tool for redesigning assignments so that students will be less likely to turn to AI for cheating. Students have always questioned the value of the content, assignments, and activities in their courses (“Why do I have to learn this?!”).

Failure 98

Failure Academic Integrity Assignments Universal Design 98

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 3, 2023

I came up with the TRUST model to serve as a pedagogical tool for redesigning assignments so that students will be less likely to turn to AI for cheating. Students have always questioned the value of the content, assignments, and activities in their courses (“Why do I have to learn this?!”).

Failure 98

Failure Academic Integrity Assignments Universal Design 98

Edsurge

MARCH 1, 2018

Speaking to an audience of researchers from the education industry last week at the Bay Area Learning Analytics Conference , held at the University of California at Berkeley, Deb shared how Chegg uses a Stanford-built tool to try to keep out students who just want an online tutor to do their homework.

Essay 89

Essay Ethics Exams Academic Integrity 89

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

The bot has raised many questions, to name just a few: how ChatGPT will affect exams, how to help students use it critically and within the boundaries of academic integrity, how to talk about it in class, and whether it can help faculty plan activities or even generate content like examples or cases.

Multiple Choice Questions 111

Multiple Choice Questions Plagiarism Writing Questions 111

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

The bot has raised many questions, to name just a few: how ChatGPT will affect exams, how to help students use it critically and within the boundaries of academic integrity, how to talk about it in class, and whether it can help faculty plan activities or even generate content like examples or cases.

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Multiple Choice Questions Plagiarism Writing Questions 97

Scholarly Teacher

JANUARY 29, 2025

The open access nature of community colleges and the varying levels of academic preparedness of their students require programs and courses that provide remediation and support in foundational skills for nearly two- thirds of students (Chen et al., 2021; Close et al.,

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Learning Instructors Math STEM 98

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.

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Exams Essay Instructors Education 215

Edsurge

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Cat and Mouse Game The last few weeks have seen a rush of articles in the popular press detailing how students are using ChatGPT to write their papers. That means that essay answers it produces for students often include statements that aren’t factually accurate, and sometimes it just makes stuff up. Who’re You Calling Unoriginal?

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Plagiarism Essay Writing Students 211