| One thing that I think people don't talk about enough on this topic is the wildly different plagerism guidelines between different classes. I did both CS and economics in college. And in my CS classes, even discussing the homework with classmates was often "against the rules". But in my business and economics classes, me and my classmates would regularly work together on the homework my straight up assigning certain problems to certain people and then copying from each other. This was not only allowed by the professor, it was explicitly ENCOURAGED! They understood that if you talked to classmates, you will be able to understand things better, instead of struggling and failing to do stuff on your own. And with such wildly differing guidelines for different classes, things were often confusing to students. One potential solution to "cheating" is to explicitly allow it, such that everyone is on the same playing field. What matters, at the end of the day, is that the students learn the material. |