College professors are going back to paper exams and handwritten essays to fight students using ChatGPT::The growing number of students using the AI program ChatGPT as a shortcut in their coursework has led some college professors to reconsider their lesson plans for the upcoming fall semester.

    • @CrimsonFlash@lemmy.ca
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      5611 months ago

      Not during class. Most likely a proctored exam. No laptops, no phones, teacher or proctor watching.

      • @Syrc@lemmy.world
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        011 months ago

        …then why can’t you do that with a school laptop that can’t access the web…?

          • @Syrc@lemmy.world
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            -111 months ago

            And so do colleges. If they don’t want to invest $2000 every 5/6 years for a hundred dumpster windows 95 PCs it shouldn’t be the paying student to suffer.

    • Flying Squid
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      611 months ago

      Only if you memorize it. In which case, why not just memorize the test material?

    • @drekly@lemmy.world
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      011 months ago

      Sounds like effort, I’m making a font out of my handwriting and getting a 3d printer to write it

      • @Rozz@lemmy.sdf.org
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        211 months ago

        Obviously that is the next step for the technically inclined, but even the less inclined may be capable of generating them copying to save time and brain effort.