eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

So, plagiarism checkers don’t see them as copied. How to know if a student uses AI to cheat on written assignments? Brainstorm and generate essay topics While teachers often assign particular essay topics to students, sometimes a prompt says they are free to write on anything they want. ChatGPT generates original texts.

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Essay Writing Plagiarism Academic Integrity 303

eSchool News

AUGUST 28, 2023

BOSTON – As part of its human-centered approach to AI in K-12 education, learning technology company HMH today announced new OpenAI-powered integrations within Writable , its award-winning writing practice and assessment solution for grades 3-12. HMH serves more than 50 million students and 4 million educators in 150 countries.

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Plagiarism Teachers Feedback Essay 246

Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

If you take it, that’s plagiarism and–like stealing from a store–carries drastic penalties. That’s why plagiarism checkers are important to me. PlagiarismCheck.org is an online plagiarism checker that uses a sophisticated algorithm to check content for different types of plagiarism.

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Plagiarism Fairness Internet Ethics 112

eSchool News

JANUARY 30, 2023

ESL students won’t be able to succeed at school or college if they can’t use the language well enough: Their grades and overall subject knowledge will suffer. Ask them to write short stories Teachers know that students don’t like writing assignments, especially those with strict requirements and deadlines.

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Writing Skills Essay Language 290

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Already we’re seeing students use AI to plagiarize or cheat on their assignments. Curiosity Curiosity Prompts: Ask an AI program like ChatGPT to give you learning prompts designed for your grade level and focused on common classroom topics. I won’t minimize the risks.

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Critical Thinking Plagiarism Students Writing 344

Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 11, 2022

There may be no more serious issue for a student than facing an academic conduct hearing because of plagiarism. Clearly, a much simpler approach is needed to avoid frustration, disengagement, or the inevitable forfeiture of the points associated with proper formatting on grading rubrics. Step 1: Define. Using credible sources is key.

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Plagiarism Writing Assignments Students 98

eSchool News

APRIL 18, 2024

The survey polled 825 11th and 12th grade students from across the U.S. The majority (62 percent) of those queried suggested that schools offer guidance on the ethics of using AI, including boundaries related to AI content creation, misuse, and plagiarism.

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High School High School Ethics Plagiarism 304

Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

As part of the recent rush to comment on ChatGPT, this article is not weighing in on the ongoing ethical debates, nor is it offering a comprehensive how-to guide, but rather simply sharing one professor’s initial use of the AI tool and how it successfully accomplished the learning objectives and expectations for one course assignment.

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Assignments History Art Ethics 124

Edsurge

MAY 15, 2023

And as someone who is also a former journalist and editor for EdSurge, I recognize that we should never plagiarize, and that artificially-intelligent chatbots are very, very capable of responding to prompts like “Write me a 500-word essay on Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night.” Teachers — what have been the implications for grading?”

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Plagiarism Essay Instructors Intelligence 218

Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 15, 2024

Let students see. “The content presented in this blog is the result of my creative imagination and not intended for use, reproduction, or incorporation into any artificial intelligence training or machine learning systems without prior written consent from the author.”

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Classroom Management Mobile Devices Plagiarism Quizzes 183

eSchool News

APRIL 3, 2024

Rather than relying on this score alone, his teacher called him to discuss the assignment. He went on to explain each piece of art in great detail, showing his understanding of the assignment. This example highlights that using an AI tool isn’t “bad.”

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Academic Integrity Essay Intelligence Plagiarism 239

Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 25, 2022

Turnitin has long been the go-to resource for uncovering plagiarism in student work, but there are reasons why that may not be a good choice for you or your students. Since the COVID-19 pandemic has made the workload even heavier, many instructors have felt how awful it is to use an unreliable plagiarism checker.

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Plagiarism Essay Instructors Peer Review 158

Edsurge

MARCH 6, 2019

A company best known (and sometimes rebuked) for its plagiarism checker has just received one of the biggest checks in the education technology industry. In 2014 the company acquired Ephorus, a Europe-based plagiarism detection tool, and Lightside Labs, which provides automated feedback on student writing. Turnitin, an Oakland, Calif.-based

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Plagiarism Writing Grades Instructors 167

Cult of Pedagogy

MAY 11, 2025

The pressure students feel to get high grades and the pressure for teachers to give them are both real. In classrooms where teachers emphasize performance goals (errorless performance on tasks, points, and grades), students are more likely to cheat. The fact that AI detection tools are not foolproof (Fleckenstein et al.,

Academic Integrity 88

Academic Integrity Learning Feedback Assignments 88

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Many coaches note that AI tools assisted in grading assignments, offering real-time feedback, and supporting differentiated instruction. About three-fourths of coaches feel that AI will reduce teacher workload by automating repetitive tasks such as grading and data analysis. Coaches cite technical challenges as well.

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Coaching Ethics Academic Integrity Plagiarism 200

Edsurge

JANUARY 22, 2019

On the software side, several new grading functions have been added to Microsoft Teams, the company’s version of a learning management system. One new feature, Grade Sync, will automatically send grades from assignments done in Teams to the school’s student information system (SIS).

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Curriculum Plagiarism Assignments Fairness 155

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). 2014; Agarwal, 2019).

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Plagiarism Syllabus Ethics Feedback 117

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.

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Instructors History English Writing 203

Faculty Focus

JUNE 20, 2023

Lessons learned and suggested practices When I first started teaching many years ago, I was not sympathetic to those who plagiarized. I saw it as if they either cheated or didn’t cheat, and if they did, they received a zero on the applicable assignment, and I reported the incident to the university. writing format materials (i.e.,

Academic Integrity 105

Academic Integrity Plagiarism Assignments Writing 105

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). 2014; Agarwal, 2019).

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Plagiarism Syllabus Ethics Feedback 98

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. On the faculty side, AI can generate grading rubrics and well-stated course objectives in line with specified learning domains and Bloom’s taxonomy.

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Intelligence Plagiarism Quizzes Academic Integrity 144

Lab to Class

MAY 10, 2024

Plagiarism in the classroom is when students try to turn in an assignment that they did not write. However, with the advent of AI language models that can write completely unique papers for students, how can a teacher know if a paper is plagiarized when traditional plagiarism checkers fail?

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Plagiarism Essay Teachers Assignments 52

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 11, 2017

The first bucket of products typically boast features like chatbot capability, plagiarism detection and automated essay scoring. The latter category focuses on making certain workflows—such as grading, managing enrollments, and scheduling classes—more efficient. There’s a very real human reason for this.

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Essay Evaluation Intelligence Plagiarism 132

Edsurge

AUGUST 22, 2018

If I were to use Writable to create a rubric for writing and grading funding announcements of the type you might typically see on EdSurge , it might look something like this: The K-12 writing-support tool is not (currently) designed for publications covering startups and venture capital. million seed round for the Palo Alto, Calif.-based

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Writing Feedback Peer Review Plagiarism 113

Edsurge

MARCH 5, 2025

We were taught not to plagiarize and to cite our sources. When I gave one of my first assessments to a 10th grade physics class in 2022, one of the questions was a picture of a graph with a line that said, Find the slope of this line. With the omnipresence of Google, all our questions about the world became answerable in minutes.

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Internet Schools Students Plagiarism 143

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

based educational software company best known for its plagiarism-detection tools. But teachers frequently wait until they receive a finished assignment before commenting extensively. But teachers, West-Smith says, are reluctant to hand out assignments that are going to be impossible to critique. Turnitin , an Oakland, Calif.-based

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Writing Teaching Essay Feedback 138

Edsurge

MARCH 5, 2020

And sure enough I found four of my homework assignments and my slides,” she said. “I As the site’s website says: “Course Hero does not tolerate copyright infringement, plagiarism, or cheating of any kind. Students can’t distinguish between help that helps them learn, versus help that helps them get the assignment done,” she said.

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Study Exams Quizzes Academic Integrity 134

Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 17, 2015

Ask students, other teachers, the librarian, and parents what problems children face that stop them from completing tech assignments. Have a curriculum map of what is best introduced at which grade level. You can co-teach this with others in your grade-level team or show colleagues how to reinforce the lessons during their class time.

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Teaching Plagiarism Classroom Management Quizzes 141

Faculty Focus

MAY 21, 2024

While being mindful of the concerns of plagiarism, equity, and access, some have argued educators must not only accept AI in the classroom but must help their students use it effectively as part of their digital literacy (Bender 2024, 9). Students are expected to generate and submit original, personally composed tasks for each assignment.

Intelligence 128

Intelligence Critical Thinking Learning Assignments 128

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. On the faculty side, AI can generate grading rubrics and well-stated course objectives in line with specified learning domains and Bloom’s taxonomy.

Intelligence 111

Intelligence Plagiarism Quizzes Academic Integrity 111

eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

A key conversation focuses on weighing its benefits versus risks, and many education institutions have been quick to implement bans on the technology altogether for fears of plagiarism in written works. Here you will find everything you need to know about AI in education so you can determine for yourself. How can I use AI as a teacher?

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Plagiarism Education Intelligence Textbooks 130

Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 22, 2018

A well-known fact: A large portion of every teacher’s workflow is actually consumed by the assignment review, collecting the student work, notifying the class about upcoming events, changes in the timetable, revision, and grading. Checking the written assignments. Making the grading transparent. Questioning the students.

Quizzes 94

Quizzes Essay Learning Assignments 94

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

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

AUGUST 1, 2023

Should you change the way you give exams and design assignments? Redesigning assignments can reduce the potential for cheating with AI. Just take a look at the article, “ Here are the schools and colleges that have banned the use of ChatGPT over plagiarism and misinformation fears ” (Nolan, 2023), and you will find several U.S.

Academic Integrity 98

Academic Integrity Plagiarism Exams Disabilities 98

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 1, 2023

Should you change the way you give exams and design assignments? Redesigning assignments can reduce the potential for cheating with AI. Just take a look at the article, “ Here are the schools and colleges that have banned the use of ChatGPT over plagiarism and misinformation fears ” (Nolan, 2023), and you will find several U.S.

Academic Integrity 98

Academic Integrity Plagiarism Exams Disabilities 98

Faculty Focus

JULY 18, 2023

How much bot input should be allowed while completing assignments? Issues like plagiarism, cheating (on tests or in admission scandals), and integrity have been the center of ethical conversations for many years. We offer no defense to students who skimp on their studies and seek only a grade instead of the requisite learning.

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Academic Integrity Intelligence Ethics Essay 98