Much of the world returned to offline teaching "last semester".
It was like that before the pandemic. If you expect academic integrity in an online class, you are deluded. The students here were just dumb enough to do it in a class-wide chat. Smart cheaters do it in small, trusted, cliques.
I have pre-pandemic experience as a student and as a TA in both an Israeli university and a top American publish university.
The Israeli systems does it as I described above, and the American university does not. The US university held an exam for 350 students in a single conference hall. The proctors were the TAs. We could not check IDs, students seated themselves, and there were no effective supervision. The easiest way to cheat was just to switch the exam forms with a friend.
We intentionally created a massive incentive to cheat. Worse, we curved the grades, punishing non-cheaters.
I tried to protest, but was completely ignored because it was always done like that.
It was like that before the pandemic. If you expect academic integrity in an online class, you are deluded. The students here were just dumb enough to do it in a class-wide chat. Smart cheaters do it in small, trusted, cliques.
I have pre-pandemic experience as a student and as a TA in both an Israeli university and a top American publish university.
The Israeli systems does it as I described above, and the American university does not. The US university held an exam for 350 students in a single conference hall. The proctors were the TAs. We could not check IDs, students seated themselves, and there were no effective supervision. The easiest way to cheat was just to switch the exam forms with a friend.
We intentionally created a massive incentive to cheat. Worse, we curved the grades, punishing non-cheaters.
I tried to protest, but was completely ignored because it was always done like that.
The pandemic only made this worse.