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Colleague Plagiarizes Entire Course Content
I am sharing a course with a colleague, the share is 50-50. I do my part, she does her part.
However, I noticed that for her part, the entire structure of the course, from the slides to notes and ...
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My colleague took my teaching materials to use as their own. What should I do?
I am a postdoc and for the past several years I have been teaching a course for which I have designed all of the lectures, seminars, reading lists, etc. A new colleague joined our faculty last year as ...
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How to verify authenticity of submitted assignments
When teaching 250 students in the same subject, knowing each student can be quite difficult. In smaller classes, it may be possible to learn enough through classroom interaction that when assessing ...
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Comparing tools for plagiarism detection in writing
As a professor I’m planning to include more training about plagiarism in my courses to address some of the misconceptions and misunderstandings. What is your experience with such tools?
My university ...
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I see an increase in homework plagiarism due to the ease of finding solutions online. I am concerned for my students and my work. What can I do?
I work as a remote tutor and help students understand hard concepts/problems in scientific fields in college/university/industry.
I am finding a real lack of originality in exercises assigned by ...
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Plagiarism and academic Teaching use
Often while teaching (Engineering) it is convenient to illustrate a concept by a figure / photo / sketch etc. which is pre-existing in literature: perhaps another book, or vendor document or a code or ...
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Is it ethical to use already existing material to complement teaching?
As background, I have a MSc in Chemical Engineering, and I am currently teaching in one of the first Fachhochschule-type institutes that have been established in my country. This institute stands as ...
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How to teach students not to use other people's work in an assignment or a thesis?
When reading submissions by students, for example coding assignments or bachelor theses, I stumble upon code or text not originally written by the students themselves, usually not referenced properly (...
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How to prove/deal with plagiarism that is hidden behind bad synonyms?
I have had more than one undergraduate student who I have very strongly suspected of routine plagiarism that I cannot prove. There is a certain style of writing that is just inexplicable except as an ...
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Is it ethical/acceptable to give a lighter penalty to students who admit to cheating?
I am at the moment dealing with an academic dishonesty incident in a class I'm teaching (a few groups of students submitting identical code, when the class policy forbids getting help from another ...
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I caught several of my students plagiarizing. Could it be my fault as a teacher?
I have been teaching for three years now. This year, for the first time, I caught multiple students in a class (out of 50) either handing in the task of a colleague or copying the majority of someones ...
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An undergraduate said they may hire a freelancer to do their work for them. What should I do?
I, a graduate student, have started tutoring undergraduates in computer science at my university to help make ends meet. One student who inquired about my services turned me down upon hearing my rates ...
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How should I feel about a professor using an entire online course for his own course?
I'm taking a machine learning class at a school in South Korea. I've heard some good and bad things about this professor in particular, but I didn't really know until I actually took his course.
I've ...
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Students plagiarising assignments: What level is worth the effort of pursuing?
As a tutor marking assignments, I regularly come across cases of plagiarism. As someone who put a lot of effort into my coursework studies it really offends me to see what students think they can (and ...
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Should I prepare new homework exercises each year, 20% of the final grade is homework?
This year I prepare a new course (in programming, but it could be any other course). I spend a lot of effort in creating homework exercises. This is fun, but also very time-consuming.
I wonder if I ...
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