Hundreds of students used Chegg to cheat during online exam, Texas A&M alleges

[dalton99a]

https://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/education/article/Chegg-Texas-A-M-students-cheating-virtual-classes-15808790.php

Hundreds of students used Chegg to cheat during online exam, Texas A&M alleges
ShaCamree Gowdy
Dec. 16, 2020

COVID-19 definitely added a learning barrier for students of all ages and grades this year, but the semester just got a bit harder for some college students at Texas A&M University.

According to the Texas Tribune's Kate McGee, hundreds of Texas A&M students in an online finance class received an email in early December alerting them to concerns of cheating.

Faculty members became suspicious when some students in the class answered online test questions too quickly, McGee reported, later finding entire exams posted on Chegg, a “homework help” website.

Aggie Honor System Office director Timothy Powers told the Tribune that there are "hundreds of examples" of students answering questions faster than it would take to read it, citing information from the university's online learning platform Canvas.

[Solly Mack]

1. A long while back I read an article about how students thought it OK to cheat and this seemed to be

a widespread belief. It was no biggie and it helped get the grades to get into the better schools. So it was a positive for the future.

I don't see it that way but the students, both high school and college, seemed to think it no big deal.

[EarnestPutz]

2. "Cheating! This is going to go on your permanent record!"

[Solly Mack]

3. Heh

That was a favorite when I was in school back in the day.

[jimfields33]

4. The only thing that's changed is a lot of paper and wash machines are saved

Crib notes and writing on the bottom of your shirt or sleeve was replaced by the websites of today.

[Solly Mack]

6. It's gotten easier.

[jimfields33]

8. That's a definite

[Enterstageleft]

5. Wow, just think...

I could have been a C+ student.

[napi21]

7. Cheating has existed since schools have been around. This is just the new version. I don't

sagree with it, but I remember back in the early 60's when many athleats cheated any way they could just to stay on the team. Hard copies of tests were around, one smart student would get paid to take a test for a poor student. Schools re going to get a lot more tech savy than they are if they want to get a handle on it.

[AllaN01Bear]

10. when i was in school, there was a big cheating scandal for for the basketball team.

coaches got fired , etc. how many of you remember where a coach shutdown a highscool athletics department because not one of the athletes werent passing grades to qualify for teams . what irks me is that these are after school programs and not primary course work. was made into a movie .

[csziggy]

13. In my high school American History class a cheerleader asked me to help her pass the test

She wanted to copy off my test and then she'd let some of the football players copy off hers. I laughed at her - that was hands down the easiest class ever to make an A in. The teacher only used questions at the end of each chapter in the text book. Each chapter had five questions, the teacher tested for each chapter.

All any student had to do was learn the answers to those five questions each week or so and they could have an easy A. The cheerleader and the football players were so stupid or lazy they had not realized where the teacher was getting the questions. They all flunked out and I was ostracized for not "helping" the team pass the easiest course in the world.

They deserved those failing grades. I learned to be a loner. Life went on.

[HariSeldon]

9. Xkcd

https://xkcd.com/2385/

[RainCaster]

11. I love it- the picture

[3Hotdogs]

12. Wasn't there some guy I think I recall reading about.... his father paid someone

to take S.A.T.s in his name? It was somewhere in one of the boroughs of N.Y.C. I think it was Queens borough.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

14. My one personal experience in cheating.

I'd been out the night of an exam, along with another student. The next week, the professor gave us both the exam and sent us to the next door classroom to take the test. Meanwhile, he was going over the test with the students who'd taken it the week before. We could clearly hear him telling the answers. The other student and I looked at each other, didn't say a word, and just continued to take the exam. I know I got a 95% or better, and I expect he did somewhat the same.

I also frequently read stuff about students purchasing research papers. And somehow professors seem unable to stop that. Really? Just require they turn in their notes and first draft. If they can't produce those things, they get an F. Pure and simple. Heck, I recall being required to do that -- turn in notes and first draft -- in 1965, long before purchasing research papers was a thing.

[LovingA2andMI]

15. And....

This isn't new....