How Professors Can Check for AI Cheating in a Sensible Way

Teachers everywhere are struggling to figure out how to handle the use of AI language tools, like ChatGPT. What if students are using these tools to cheat, and to avoid learning? This video is for you—we review some basic ways professors (indeed, any teachers) can and cannot check for proper use of these tools and make their assignments better. And we end with five rapid additional tips for ensuring an equitable learning environment for your students in the face of the AI tools.

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[sharonpritchettrichards]

AI is a great tool to help students get an idea of the number and variety of topics to be covered in responding to a writing prompt. I often get excited about a specific idea but don't always fully address everything the prompt requires, and AI makes that a less daunting process. AI also helps me get over social anxiety when faced with composing a letter asking for anything --a job, admission to a program, etc. A lot of what chat GPT creates is overblown, hyperbolic writing. I certainly wouldn't submit anything it produces as is, but it can produce a structure or even a perspective for a topic I may not have considered that I may want to incorporate into whatever I'm producing. One thing it's really good at is projecting out how long a lesson plan will take and suiting a learning activity to fit a specific time frame and grade level. There are a lot of things about it that are helpful, like another reader or editor would be. It helps me move forward when I have a deadline to comply with but I'm suffering mental fatigue and don't feel I can push myself further. I get it to provide me with an outline or example of what the next step is or where I need to go to get the next information I need. What I'm trying to show here is that AI is a good tool and doesn't have to indicate cheating. I've learned what the shortcomings of AI are and I've learned to use it to overcome some of my limitations without falling prey to its limitations.

[Geminish]

I wish you were my professor. You seem to care more than most. I like your ideas for asking to integrate personal experiences, recent publications, and in-person assignments.❤

[eahofer]

I had a student submit a fantastic paper. It had 1 typo, but otherwise, it was an A. But in the DM with me, his replies were littered with errors. When i looked at the revision history, it took him all of 2 minutes to write 500 word essay.

Simply supplying his samples from the DM along with the essay to GPT, i guess i could ask if the 2 were written by the same author.

Relating your feeling of the student getting it, for me in this instance, i was furious that i was coaching a student who wasn't interested in actually learning. I felt i was wasting my time.

[fccpsa]

Very helpful, for teachers who are looking for ways to understand the issues with AI and workable soultions. Thanks

[johnvargas]

I wonder why they cheat its almost like the kids know the work is useless and not worth learning or everything is based on sucking up to the teacher so its not a kids not wanting to learn problem its a make teacher maybe useful again

[History--Stamp]

I really don't see the problem with students using A.I.
The educators that grade papers are influenced by human factors (they shouldn't be) but regrettably they are. The better educators try to minimise this as I'm sure you do, but sometimes for whatever reason this is not the case. The sad truth is a university, college or school are a factory that stamps out graduates and diplomas, they are no longer places of learning, they are a rubber stamp that students need to move onto the next stage of their life. If a student is assigned over the course of his study a couple of professors or teachers who for whatever reason grade then lower than another educator, this theoretical student's life chances may be detrimentally affected. This could then have long lasting repercussions. Therefore, in this world or rubber stamps and 'luck' that is the academic world, what harm can there be in students using A.I it's not any less dishonest than the academic system itself.