>>14333665Physics instructor here - it's honestly baffling to me how many people I catch cheating in my classes
My homework, quiz, and exam questions are virtually identical to the example problems I work out in class. I post all my notes, all my examples, and even past exams on the course webpage. I basically only expect my students to learn how to solve one 'type' of problem for each chapter (can you solve a basic kinematics problem, can you solve a basic cons. of energy problem, can you solve a basic buoyancy problem, etc.) and they're barely high school level difficulty. And yet every semester there's still rampant cheating, almost like students just do it because they think it's what they're supposed to do
I tried so many tricks and changes to discourage cheating, too - writing different variations of assignments with different initial conditions or numbers, altering my grading scale to be more forgiving, offering to drop assignments, none of it makes a difference. After five or six semesters I just gave up; the amount of effort I was putting into trying to discourage cheating was killing me. Now instead of making more work for myself with making and grading a hundred different versions of every assignment I just give everyone the same stuff but with different nouns in the word problem and just check their work to see who's stuff doesn't match or check Chegg, Course Hero, etc. and see whose version gets posted.
I think the most frustrating parts of the whole affair are how fucking stupid students must think their instructors are... like we're fucking incapable of finding or subscribing to the same GroupMe servers, Chegg or CH pages, etc. I've seen some shockingly lazy attempts as well - hell, I had a student last year who *literally* copy pasted a solution off Chegg into a word doc, typos and all, printed it off and submitted it for a grade (and the icing on the cake was the solution wasn't even right).
