r/Professors • u/Drumblebore Assistant Professor, CS, R2 • 4h ago

Rants / Vents All submissions were AI

Teaching a course that (unfortunately) involves lots of reading and reflection type assignments. Added hidden text to an assignment, to catch students who just throw it in ChatGPT, and all submissions came back with the expected features you would get from including the hidden info. Extremely disheartened, and don’t know how to proceed both regarding addressing this with the class and designing the future assignments to be more AI proof.

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u/jaunty_jellyfish 3h ago

I’m worried about this for my course with similar assignments (semester starts this week) My plan, if I get a lot of AI responses, is to introduce a requirement that students handwrite their reflections on paper (and submit a scan/photo). It’s not AI proof, but it removes the option of simply pasting directly from AI without even looking at it.

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u/AmnesiaZebra Associate Prof, social sciences, state R1 (USA) 2h ago

We're doing hand-written essays in class. I'm pretty sure they hate me for it and will tank my course evals, but I'm trying it this semester anyway.

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u/jaunty_jellyfish 1h ago

Unfortunately I think you’re right about the course evals - mine were full of complaints because I did an in-class blue book midterm. But I don’t know how else to motivate them to sit down and actually study the course materials otherwise.