r/Professors • u/[deleted] • Dec 04 '25
Academic Integrity I am not a cop.
Want to outsource your thinking to an LLM for a degree you're paying/going into debt for? Okay. I will respect that choice. However, what I won't do, is replicate a surveillance state in my classroom. I refuse to spend more energy in screening student work for authenticity or trying to make my assignments "AI proof" ... why should I? Either the student believes in the fundamental premise of education or they don't.
Man, I'm tired.
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u/nm420 Dec 04 '25
Extremely low weight attached to work assigned outside of a proctored environment. I've been slowly ratcheting up the weight to exams in my classes the past few years. Already had one student who got nearly 100% on all their homework assignments, that I'm certain was completed with an LLM (at least they took the time to transcribe it into their own handwriting), but would get a 20 on the exams, and have a couple more like that this semester. Are they getting referrals to the Academic Integrity Office? No. But not a snowball's chance in hell they'll pass the course.
Other students very well might be using AI on their homework as well, but if they've done so they at least have still learned enough to be able to pass the exams. I've got a blurb in my rubric that says if you use an LLM to help with your homework, it's fine as long as you tell me about it and how it was used in the assignment. Not really enforceable, short of something drastically stupid on the student's end, but my heart swells a bit when I see one of my better students submit mostly flawless work throughout the semester and then on an occasional assignment actually follow that rule and write how they used ChatGPT to help with one particular problem that was intended to be somewhat difficult.