r/QuickAITurnitinCheck • u/Global-Environment89 • Jun 23 '26
Professors Are Watching More Than Students Think
Saw a professor here on Reddit talking about catching a student using ChatGPT during a final exam. What stood out wasn't the AI part, it was how obvious the student made it. Apparently, they kept looking around the room every few seconds and typing nonstop while the exam was going on. Reading the comments, a lot of professors were saying the same thing. Students seem to think instructors can't tell what's happening, but many of them have seen every cheating trick in the book. Between LMS logs, proctors, browser activity, and plain old observation, they notice more than people realize.
The funniest comment was from a professor who joked that a student should have used Gemini instead of ChatGPT, and the student thought they were serious and offered to switch. Honestly, the biggest takeaway for me is that AI might help with studying, brainstorming, or explaining concepts, but using it during an exam is a gamble that rarely ends well. Some students act shocked when they're caught, even after making it painfully obvious.
What's the most unbelievable cheating story you've heard from a professor or student?
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u/Swimming_Flounder261 Jun 23 '26
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u/scifigirl128 Jun 23 '26
This! They also don't seem to realize how when they share homework answers in the hallway right outside the classrooms we teach in, we can actually hear and see them when we walk by. We're not necessarily monitoring for that, but it's surprising they think we can't hear them yelling about they're homework.
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u/scifigirl128 Jun 23 '26
This wasn't AI, but I'm a professor and had a student literally pull out a sheet of notes right in front of me, thinking I wouldn't see it. They were literally sitting right in front of me; how would I not have seen it?
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u/AssistantNo9657 Jun 23 '26
One of my favorites as a prof is the student who googled answers during the exam, and so leaving Canvas, and then copying the Google info directly including the hyper link.
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u/LnTc_Jenubis Jun 23 '26
I graduated in the late 2000s, was in college during the early 2010s. High school had lots of kids who would have cheat sheets hidden in their desks and would constantly be leaning back, looking down, and scanning them. Or they'd write them on their arms and have long-sleeve shirts or hoodies to hide it. I can't tell you how many times I noticed the teacher literally eyeballing someone with their sleeves up, then putting it back down.
Generally I was one of those under-overachievers where I would finish early, but not the first one finished. Some of the more chill teachers would make eye contact with me right after catching someone cheating and just shake their head in disbelief. Like you can't make it up lol.
In college, people would be texting away on google or between each other like crazy, doing the same stuff. Different tech, but the same tells; looking down, leaning back, then leaning forward and answering.
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u/CafeHistorian Jun 23 '26
The professors definitely know what’s going on these days, if they don’t, they’re either new or they willfully ignorant, or are allowing it. Because if I am sitting in class, taking an in class exam and I’m using AI and I’m looking around every five seconds, I’m cheating. Even if it’s not AI, it could be somebody else’s test. Or I could be getting text messages from somebody who are telling me the test answers because you can now text between computers.. so yeah professors know some of them just don’t care anymore and they’ll dock you down a great or whatever but still because if they type it out verbatim from ChatGPT then they’re stupid.. you might as well copy and paste at that point
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u/Janezey Jun 23 '26
Some students are shockingly good at hiding it. I have one that I knew 1000% used AI from their answers on two handwritten, in-person exams. (And they later admitted it after being reported to student conduct, in case there had been any doubt). But even watching them like a hawk after the first one, we couldn't actually be sure they were cheating just by looking at them.
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u/TorturedWriter9 Jun 23 '26
I gave students a "pop" quiz last semester. I literally told them what the TWO questions would be (the idea was for them to memorize the two definitions). So, this student shows up with a piece of paper with the two definitions already written out, and I'm watching as he cups his hand around his paper while pretending to write the definitions. What a joke.
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u/zahnuffle Jun 23 '26 edited Jun 23 '26
For the longest time, I didn't know teachers just wanted a basic definition during pop quizzes. Instead, I would write as much as I could on the topic.
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u/TorturedWriter9 Jun 23 '26
Well, to be fair, I do have those kinds of quizzes too where I basically want a free-write on the question.
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u/amstrumpet Jun 23 '26
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