It’s not that hard. Just scroll through the editing history. You can even look at timestamps to see if the student actually spent any time thinking and editing or just re-typed a ChatGPT result word for word all in one go. Creating a plausible fake editing history isn’t easy.
That’s going to show up as a big copy-paste followed by a bunch of edits. Or a big full-retype with edit fixing.
The true arbiter is time. If a student you know struggled at writing during in class writing assignments just knocks off the essay in 15 mins of writing whereas the class median time is a couple of hours then it’s pretty obvious who cheated.
Is a student going to go out of their way to slowly retype a ChatGPT essay over the course of a few hours, with not only typo corrections but also full sentence rewriting? At that point I think they’ve proven they can write just by doing that extensive editing. They would probably finish faster by writing it on their own! Unless they’re just using ChatGPT to help them get a framework for the essay and then rewriting it in their own words. If I were a teacher I’d be fine with students doing the latter, though it’s still not ideal, at least it shows a lot of effort.
It’s not that hard. Just scroll through the editing history. You can even look at timestamps to see if the student actually spent any time thinking and editing or just re-typed a ChatGPT result word for word all in one go. Creating a plausible fake editing history isn’t easy.
I’ve spent a significant amount of my time at my last job looking through editing history in Google products. It’s slow and annoying. It’s not easy.
There’s probably a away to prompt AI to write everything but make mistakes. So most of the work is done, then you go and edit out the mistakes.
I think you underestimate how much work kids will do to avoid homework.
That’s going to show up as a big copy-paste followed by a bunch of edits. Or a big full-retype with edit fixing.
The true arbiter is time. If a student you know struggled at writing during in class writing assignments just knocks off the essay in 15 mins of writing whereas the class median time is a couple of hours then it’s pretty obvious who cheated.
Is a student going to go out of their way to slowly retype a ChatGPT essay over the course of a few hours, with not only typo corrections but also full sentence rewriting? At that point I think they’ve proven they can write just by doing that extensive editing. They would probably finish faster by writing it on their own! Unless they’re just using ChatGPT to help them get a framework for the essay and then rewriting it in their own words. If I were a teacher I’d be fine with students doing the latter, though it’s still not ideal, at least it shows a lot of effort.