We can make cheating more labor-intensive or costly than the effort involved. We can also try to make the assignments so interesting that students want to explore the subject as deeply as we want them to or so unusual that a response doesn’t already exist out there. Yet hard as we work to make the assignment one on which students don’t want to bother plagiarizing, someone will always try to take the shortcut. —Coping with plagiarism 30 November 2017
I once spent seven hours finding definitive proof that a student had purchased her assessment, which eventually resulted in her expulsion from university. Sadly, some lecturers don’t go the full mile, as catching a cheater and filling out a report can be very labor-intensive. —Students cheat in ever more creative ways: How can academics stop them? 12 October 2017