Tag: cheating
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Does Your Department Have an AI Policy? Here’s Edinburgh’s
[Originally published on May 27, 2026. Reposted by request.] Has your department instituted an AI policy? If so, whom does it govern, and what…
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A New Tool for Curbing AI Cheating (guest post)
“The aim is not to keep everything exactly as it was before gen AI took off. That would be both impossible and undesirable. The…
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Grammarly Is a Cheating Machine
Grammarly is sometimes thought by instructors to be a relatively benign writing tool app, akin to a sophisticated spelling and grammar checker.
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Even Conscientious Students in Their Favorite Courses…
In a philosophy seminar—“my favorite class I’ve taken so far,” she said—Gwen used AI to write almost all her essays just to avoid late…
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If You Want Your Students Completing Their Coursework Without Help from AI…
…how do you make that happen?
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The Integrity of Academic Integrity Enforcement
The philosophy professor heading up the office at his college that handles student violations of academic integrity, like cheating, is dealing with a seemingly…
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The Multi-Day In-Class LockDown Browser Essay Assignment (guest post)
Many professors in philosophy and other disciplines believe that having students write take-home essays is important. Essays give students the opportunity to spend a…
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One University’s AI Guide for Students, Written with the Help of AI
“When permitted, you can use AI tools for help but not to do the work for you.”
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OpenAI Has Kept Secret an Accurate ChatGPT Detector for Two Years
According to The Wall Street Journal, “OpenAI has a method to reliably detect when someone uses ChatGPT to write an essay or research paper” but…
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Teachers: Was the Semester AI-pocalyptic or Was It AI-OK?
A survey conducted at the end of last year indicated that 30% of college students had used ChatGPT for schoolwork. Undoubtedly, the number has…
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The AI Threat, the Humanities, and Self-Cultivation
“The humanities are… a gateway to and instigator of a lifelong activity of free self-cultivation. The changes they provoke in us are not always…
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Policing Is Not Pedagogy: On the Supposed Threat of ChatGPT (guest post)
“ChatGPT has just woken many of us up to the fact that we need to be better teachers, not better cops.”
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“Am I the unethical one?” A Philosophy Professor & His Cheating Students
“All I did was go to a website that is designed to facilitate cheating and set up a kind of camera to see who…
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The AI-Immune Assignment Challenge
AutomatED, a guide for professors about AI and related technology run by philosophy PhD Graham Clay (mentioned in the Heap of Links last month),…
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Teaching Philosophy in a World with ChatGPT
“It will be difficult to make an entire class completely ChatGPT cheatproof. But we can at least make it harder for students to use…
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Conversation Starter: Teaching Philosophy in an Age of Large Language Models (guest post)
Over the past few years we have seen some startling progress from Large Language Models (LLMs) like GPT-3, and some of those paying attention…
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UNC Trying to Fire Jan Boxill
The University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, is trying to fire philosopher Jan Boxill for her role in widespread academic fraud at UNC, according…