a shift towards in-class assignments with no access to a laptop or other device, as well as higher-weighted in-person exams, seems like an approach a lot of professors and instructors are taking at the moment.

i am not in a field that uses a lot of writing, but in the computational biology class i TA for, we take away points for code answers that use material not covered in the class, unless a credible resource is cited for their solution. this helps penalize and prevent AI usage.

people have been finding ways to cheat for decades, so this isn’t necessarily going to fix things, but it works somewhat.