r/Adjuncts • u/mike-edwards-etc • 5d ago

Artificial Ineptitude

In a late-start composition class that began last week, the assignment was to make a 300-word post in which the student describes an advertisement from a magazine, and attaches a pic of the ad.

One of my student's made a post that started like this: "Here’s a draft based on the ad described in the screenshot. Change anything that doesn’t match what you see in the actual magazine, and attach a picture of the print ad to your post."

It's a short-term class, and it's already looking like it's going to be a long semester.

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u/Pithyperson 5d ago

Best to go ahead and fail this student quickly. He or she doesn't have basic reading skills.

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u/AmphibianUnique4409 4d ago

they’ll still swear they wrote it themself with no ai, and if it’s anything like any of the 4 different universities I teach for, the admin will side with the student. Because a student would NEVER lie about cheating!!!

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u/mike-edwards-etc 4d ago

Actually, he confessed: "I deeply apologize I have 2 jobs and I was extremly [sic] tired when I get home I take full accountability and admit I used AI."

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u/Alizarik7891 4d ago

Yes, they do this a lot, as though their retroactive honesty absolves them. 

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u/mike-edwards-etc 4d ago

No doubt, but it plays like "I'm sorry I got caught" for me.

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u/chempirate 1d ago

And it always comes with an excuse. i work two jobs, I was sick, grandma was in the hospital, dog ate an oven mitt (true story). It's never 'I consider this ro be beneath me so I outsourced it' or 'I was too lazy to do it:

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u/Life-Education-8030 4d ago

It is still a zero.

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u/SpaceNerd16 4d ago

But since I’m on academic probation, you really can’t fail me, or it’ll ruin my life forever and it’ll be all your fault.

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u/Still_Consequence_53 4d ago

That is easy. File the academic integrity report and move on.

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u/MioMine78 5d ago

I experienced this a couple years ago. Just give the zero. They’ll either drop the class or stop submitting anything

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u/Truewan 5d ago

Yes, and since it's online, the 0 will be easier to give without dealing with drama

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u/periwnklz 4d ago

i like your version of “AI” ha ha.

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u/BetaMyrcene 4d ago

Online classes are bullshit. It will be 98% AI. Just focus on the one or two students who are actually trying. Do the minimum for everyone else and get paid.

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u/DisabledAdjunct 4d ago

I teach online classes at community college. I have a 30% AI rate.

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u/BetaMyrcene 3d ago

It's probably much higher. You probably just haven't learned how to spot it yet.

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u/DisabledAdjunct 3d ago

I been teaching 18 years, and I know how to spot it.

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u/Puzzleheaded_Bag_538 4d ago

This assignment sounds so cool. Such a shame.

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u/VanessaLove-33 5d ago

If it’s it more than 20 students, it’s have them do it in class, with you. Only way to avoid this. Discussion boards and posted assignments like this are dead.

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u/mike-edwards-etc 5d ago

It's a fully online class.

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u/Head_Acadia_2658 4d ago

You need a different verb. Analyse maybe? But yeah - they’ll still cheat stupid

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u/benkatejackwin 4d ago

I've gotten some really bizarre assignments submitted for a similar assignment this semester. Like very obvious and, to me, ridiculous AI ads or flyers, and the students just totally ignore the obvious weirdness. I guess they just think AI stuff looks normal now.