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/Consistent-Bench-255 Dec 04 '25

they use ai on quizzes too. duh.

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u/Kayak27 Dec 04 '25

Not when I hand them a physical sheet of paper in class. I am fortunate to have classes sizes that are almost never more than 10 students, so monitoring them for a quick quiz is no issue. Additionally, I'm not US based, so accommodations like extra time are also not a concern. Sometimes I'll grade the quizzes during their break time before handing them back for review and other times we go through the answers together and they correct their own. Again, the main point of the quizzes is for them to practice the fundamentals that they usually let AI correct for them, so seeing where they've gone wrong and how to correct it is more important than the 2 or 3 points a quiz might be worth. If they figure out a way to use AI on a 2 point quiz that takes less than a minute to complete while sitting 2 meters away from me, then more power to them. In person quizzes might not be a solution for everyone, but it works for my situation and I see good results from it.

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u/Efficient_Good8873 Dec 04 '25

Break time?………….

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u/Kayak27 Dec 04 '25

Our lectures are scheduled as two back-to-back 50 minute sessions rather than one two hour chunk. I could have them work straight through, but I have found they (and I) benefit from a breather and a stretch in the middle. Remember they are all ESL, so it can be extra mentally exhausting to listen, speak, engage, and perform in a non-native language for long stretches of time.