I’m also a teacher. I teach programming. I teach adults, some even 50+. I love teaching the older students, because they really care, they really want to learn, they put in effort and attention, all of them. Younger students can be just as awesome, but there are more bad apples in that category. It’s not really agism though, because it’s really just the people that want to get rich quick that are the bad apples. Those are inherently on the younger side.

My university primarily teaches online, through Teams. Lessons are not mandatory. Lately it happens a lot that simeone hands in their finals assignment and it looks shiny. I’ve never heard of this student or talked to them. They never handed in any homework or asked any questions. They didn’t even watch the recorded lessons. So I look at the code and it’s all smells of AI.

In this case our process is to fike it with the exam commission and they will have a meeting with the student to prove theyy actually did it themselves. I’ve sit in with a few of these meetings, but I’ve only seen one student be able to answer any of the questions we ask them about their own work.

This works pretty well, because I don’t have to prove AI, I just have to point to suspicion. Than the students have to prove that they know what they have done. Which is a “guilty until proven innocent” kind of sitution, but it’s very easy to pass if you’re actually innocent and did your own work.

I think this is the tried and tested way to test for plagiarism, but now applied to AI usage. Because in fact, AI usage in a graduation project is plagiarism. Time consuming, but effective.