[ectopod]

I attended a prestigious university. You could pretty much do what you liked (including nothing) for the three years and the degree was awarded for 30 hours of exams in a single week. In the exam room you couldn't copy work or pay someone else to do it or consult a chatbot. You knew the subject or you didn't. So you don't have to change the teaching. You could change the examining.

[omnicognate]

Yep, back to exams, which there was never anything wrong with in the first place, IMO.

[nprateem]

Except for the people who answer badly due to stress and discover they've wasted 3 years off the back of a few bad hours.

[omnicognate]

This is why we have retakes. If your coursework results in lower grades than fellow students who cheated (with or without AI) there's no such recourse.

Even assuming all the students do it in good faith, there are factors other than knowing the material that can affect their performance on coursework. For example one person may have access to a well equipped, ergonomic, quiet space and plenty of undisturbed time in which to complete the assignment, while another may not.

The major benefit of exams is that everybody is taking them in, as far as possible, consistent and controlled conditions. It's not ideal, but I think it's better than the alternatives.

[nprateem]

Some unis only allow retakes if you totally fail. They don't let you optionally choose to retake to try to do better, so no, that's not a solution that works for everyone.