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To be worth using, a detector needs not only (A) not get very many false positives, but also (B) get…
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.
While many schools refunded prorated room and board, I'm not aware of any who have refunded tuition, but that's exactly what a growing number of lawsuits are seeking. This will add to the serious financial woes of U.S. universities, especially if the plaintiffs are successful and online teaching continues into the coming academic year.
CollegeRefund2020.com is another prominent site seeking out student plaintiffs. While the larger universities may not suffer too much it seems to me that, for universities in more serious financial straights, i.e., many smaller universities, such suits have the potential to be the proverbial straws that break the camel's back.
If you'll allow a little bit of self-promotion, I just wrote a brief piece for the Stanford Review arguing against this approach: https://stanfordreview.org/against-class-action-lawsuits-treat-stanford-like-a-university-not-a-business/.
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