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Everything you say is true, but what is the alternative? I don’t think people are advocating a return to in-class…
The discussion here assumes an institutional context where returning to supervised in-person assessment is at least theoretically feasible, a reasonable…
Cyber security professional here -reliably determining when a computational artifact (file, etc.) was created is *hard*. This is sorta why…
Agreed with the other commentator. It is extremely unlikely that Pangram’s success is due to its cheating by reading metadata.
I see this question as a bit naïve. There is metadata on every document created by a modern word processor…
There’s a simple way to test. Open a pre-2022 essay and copy-and-paste it into a new file.
Here's an informative template that other schools might follow–Dean Schill tells me it's basically the one Yale also uses.
UPDATE: Several readers point out that Michigan State also has very detailed data on-line.
Gunner Drake
Major thanks for the article. Really Cool.
Kinsley Frazee
I truly appreciate this blog article.Much thanks again. Fantastic.
To be worth using, a detector needs not only (A) not get very many false positives, but also (B) get…