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.

  • Naia@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    1 year ago

    My handwriting has always been terrible. It was a big issue in school until I was able to turn in printed assignments.

    Like with a lot of school things, they do a shit thing without thinking about negative effects. They always want a simple solution to a complex problem.

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      1 year ago

      My uni just had people with handwriting issues do the exam in a separate room with a writer for you to narrate answers to.

      People have been going to universities for millennia before the advent of computers, we have lots of ways to help people with disabilities that don’t require computers.

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        1 year ago

        Most schools have computer labs. Software capable of temporarily locking down a computer so you can’t use it for anything other than a test exists. Seems pretty simple to me.