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Dec 13, 2020 at 17:02 comment added Mark It feels a bit weird to punish only those students honest/stupid enough to admit, as this answer suggests.
Dec 12, 2020 at 22:16 comment added Martin Argerami @Kimball: makes sense. Though in person I've also heard the most outrageous excuses.
Dec 12, 2020 at 21:54 comment added Kimball @MartinArgerami I think student reactions over email and in person/Zoom can be quite different. If you schedule a conversation with them and ask them to explain how they got their solution and why they wrote such-and-such, some people who copied will confess readily, though it's true that others deny deny deny.
Dec 12, 2020 at 16:27 comment added Brian Borchers I've also had students who deny cheating despite evidence showing verbatim copying of large chunks of text. Since the copied text itself is sufficient evidence of plagiarism, I just send the charges on to the dean.
Dec 12, 2020 at 14:05 comment added Martin Argerami Brian, my experience this semester has been the opposite. The email conversation usually goes like this: student asks why they got a zero. I say because they copied the answer to q2 from an online source. They reply that no, that they studied very hard and that all their work is theirs. I send them a screenshot of the online answer they copied. They reply that they were "self-studying", and that it was "the only time", that their life is hard, and that they are in a small village in country X. I send them a screenshot of another answer and report them to the Dean.
Dec 11, 2020 at 22:37 comment added Kimball I completely agree with both Buffy's answer and this answer. Don't accuse students without strong evidence, but depending on how much you care and how sketchy their exam looks, you can require some students to chat with you to "discuss concerns about their exams" before you assign them a final grade. If your university has something like an Academic Integrity Office, you might chat with them first about what to do.
Dec 11, 2020 at 0:58 history answered Brian Borchers CC BY-SA 4.0