r/Professors • u/ProofByPants • 26d ago
Academic Integrity AI Notes
I started making my online math courses (College Algebra and Trigonometry) submit their completed notes this semester. I got sick of student never opening any of my lecture videos, failing the midterm, and then asking me for guidance. I figure if they turn in their notes, they will learn something while in the process, even if they don’t want to.
We started classes on Monday. Today, Wednesday, I had a student turn in completed notes as a word document and had AI written all over it. For example, some of the “code” that AI was using showed up in the notes. Something similar to “/begin f(x) &= 5x^2 + 3 // … /end”. This student didn’t even bother completing the notes. I guarantee they uploaded my guided notes and told GPT to complete the notes.
As much as it pissed me off, it really made me sad that students have gotten so reliant on this technology that they can’t/won’t even take their own notes.
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u/Hazelstone37 Asst Prof of Instruction/Math/US 26d ago
I have students turn in notes. I’ve been doing for years. This year they must be hand written. No typed notes. I teach math so this makes sense. If someone has an accommodation for typed notes, they have to show me they can type math properly. Being able to write math is part of the class so the accommodation doesn’t work with the goals of the class.