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College professors are going back to paper exams and handwritten essays to fight students using ChatGPT (www.businessinsider.com)

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College professors are going back to paper exams and handwritten essays to fight students using ChatGPT::The growing number of students using the AI program ChatGPT as a shortcut in their coursework has led some college professors to reconsider their lesson plans for the upcoming fall semester.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've definitely done white board coding discussions in practice, e.g., go into a room, write up ideas on the white board (including small snippets of code or pseudo code).

I've done that too back before the remote work era, but using a whiteboard as a visual aid is not the same thing as solving a whole problem on a whiteboard.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It's a close enough problem; a lot of professors I've known aren't going to sweat the small stuff on paper. Like, they're not plugging your code into a computer and expecting it to build, they're just looking for the algorithm design, and that there's no grotesque violation of the language rules.

Sure, some are going to be a little harder "you missed a simicolon here", but even then, if you're doing your work, that's not a hard thing to overcome, and it's going to cost you a handful of points (if that sort of stuff is your only mistake you get a 92 instead of a 100).