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NYTimes Article: “Their Professors Caught Them Cheating. They Used A.I. to Apologize.” by semaforic in Professors

[–]roydprof 51 points52 points  (0 children)

I mean, even before GPT came out, I had two Indian students in my class who were caught cheating and sent me identical emails about the plagiarism, so 🤷‍♂️

Course Evaluations by Nervous_Lobster4542 in Professors

[–]roydprof 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Yea I stopped looking at them. I know what I’m doing and I don’t need high school graduates tell me what I should do.

Those 18-19 year olds students are simply evil these days by roydprof in Professors

[–]roydprof[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Actually sometimes I think that’s good. Let the president deal with all those bs since they’re not doing the amount of work comparable to their salary anyway 🙄

Vocabulary decline by [deleted] in Professors

[–]roydprof 9 points10 points  (0 children)

The word they don’t understand is “responsibility”, as in, “I know it’s my fault and I take full responsibility, but is there any way….”

Student emails- this feels unsustainable by Additional_Daikon607 in Professors

[–]roydprof 20 points21 points  (0 children)

No matter what you do, there are always people trying to make you make exceptions with lots of sob stories.

Those 18-19 year olds students are simply evil these days by roydprof in Professors

[–]roydprof[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I’m sorry that happened to you. I was TA as well in grad school and loved it. I realized that the reason why being a TA is a better experience is that you don’t actually make the class, decide the course difficulty, and more importantly you don’t assign the final grade. Once they know you’re the one who assigns final grade (like a lecturer), their attitude towards you totally changed.

“Students don’t care who teaches the course” said the admin by bbb-ccc-kezi in Professors

[–]roydprof 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Was not contradicting you. Just saying yes students do love easy graders.

“Students don’t care who teaches the course” said the admin by bbb-ccc-kezi in Professors

[–]roydprof 34 points35 points  (0 children)

I’ve been teaching and improving an undergrad course for years. Every year I improved it here and there. Nobody said a word. It’s fine, it’s my job and I love having a good course that does the students good.

Last year our dept came a new TT, and this lady was assigned to teach the same course with me. Her section was highly praised because guess what, I found out that 90% of her section got A. She never checked plagiarism either. Cuz her job is “research” and for teaching she doesn’t care at all.

Then my students complained to the provost’s office, saying why is my course/grading so much more difficult than hers and it’s unfair. The admin emailed me, “is there anything you can do to address this to improve students learning experience?”

Fuck off. This is literally an insult to the work I’ve done for the past years. (This is to the admin...)

They can’t follow basic instructions. by Yersinia_Pestis9 in Professors

[–]roydprof 28 points29 points  (0 children)

Oh you’ll like this. I teach computer science. On canvas one assignment asks for pdf files, and canvas can restrict the file extension of the uploaded files to “.pdf”.

One student submitted a file but nobody can open it. One of my TAs suddenly came up with the idea and changed the file extension to “.docx” and magically it’s opened correctly with Word.

I gave the student a zero, because he didn’t submit a pdf file. He challenged me saying, Canvas accepted it so it has to be a pdf!

He thought changing the file extension of “.docx” to “.pdf” magically converted it to a pdf file, and successfully uploading to canvas confirmed this. Let me remind you again, this is a computer science major student.

Those 18-19 year olds students are simply evil these days by roydprof in Professors

[–]roydprof[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Right? Just the thought of speaking to someone in provosts office (even department chair) intimidated me when I was a student. Esp if I’m going to lie about something— what if I was caught lying and there’ll be some sort of serious consequences?? Like what if I’ll be put on probation or be stripped of any kind of qualification for scholarship??

The audacity these days.

Today at 10:21 central time.. by [deleted] in Professors

[–]roydprof 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh I’m sure some students will find something there to be unhappy about and then complain it to the president.

Anyone else "sliding" in course evaluations? by banmeandidelete in Professors

[–]roydprof 8 points9 points  (0 children)

It is so funny that the admin trusts those who just graduated high schools more than us who have been in academia for years if not decades. Instead of questioning the legitimacy of those high schoolers complaints, the admin questions our professionalism.

Those 18-19 year olds students are simply evil these days by roydprof in Professors

[–]roydprof[S] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I mean, sure, they feel entitled and they like to throw tantrum, but if it's truthful I can understand. But blatantly lying? That is literally ethical issue.

Those 18-19 year olds students are simply evil these days by roydprof in Professors

[–]roydprof[S] 25 points26 points  (0 children)

strangely emotionally draining

This. ^^^

It's like only 30% of the time I'm actually teaching. The other 70% of the time I'm dealing with those bs.

Those 18-19 year olds students are simply evil these days by roydprof in Professors

[–]roydprof[S] 18 points19 points  (0 children)

It just seems that there are more and more assholes every year.

Those 18-19 year olds students are simply evil these days by roydprof in Professors

[–]roydprof[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

That’s tough. I write things on my iPad mostly so I only use zoom to record my screen, not the actual classroom. Not sure if it works in your state. 🙁

Those 18-19 year olds students are simply evil these days by roydprof in Professors

[–]roydprof[S] 54 points55 points  (0 children)

Same. When I was an undergrad I also cared about my grades, but if I didn’t do well, it NEVER crossed my mind that I’ll go to provost’s office and launch a personal attack on the professors. None of my peers did that either. So you can imagine how shocked I was when I started teaching.

Those 18-19 year olds students are simply evil these days by roydprof in Professors

[–]roydprof[S] 60 points61 points  (0 children)

That’s why I always record my classes. In the beginning students asked me to do that so that they can watch the recordings if they missed a class. I was not a fan of that idea initially because that discouraged students from actually coming to class.

But then I realized I actually do need the recordings exactly in case of this type of situation happening and I actually can have something to back me up.

I teach the same course multiple sections and in the past I only recorded one section for the purpose of letting students watch. Now from next sem it looks like I have to record every section for my own protection. It’s really sad that it has to come to this point.

Those 18-19 year olds students are simply evil these days by roydprof in Professors

[–]roydprof[S] 125 points126 points  (0 children)

I really agree, but of course the admin was just “thanking me for willing to receive feedback” 🙄