Please do.
Ooooh! Tell! I always love stupid-cheater stories, even those that end unsatisfactorily for those of us favoring Truth and Justice.
I vote for putting this student in some sort of elaborate supervillain-ey trap where he has to somehow write code to save his ass from getting chomped by killer robots, or something.
I love it, Thudlow! If only I had some killer robots in my office here…
BTW, I looked up this guy’s grade from last term. Not only was it an F, but it was a low F.
Oh sweet Jesus. I’m going to have to go back to housepainting after all. (hangs head in shame, slinks out of thread)
So, at what percentage is the border between an F and a “low” F?
Gee, I miss those days where I was in the computer lab from 4pm to 4am… 
In all of my final exams that require bluebooks, without exception, the students buy them at one of the student stores that carry them, bring them in, sit down. Tests are passed out, teacher does makework stuff for an hour or two, then the books are handed in with completed tests. I am not aware of any rampant cheating. Actually, after three years at this university, the only cheating I’ve ever seen was a guy writing some grammar rules down on his desk for a Russian test. I told him that if he could remember them well enough to write down a conjugation chart on his desk, he should have no trouble on the test, and might as well not risk getting caught.
Oh well, I guess intelligence and smarts are not the same thing. 
Well, did he copy them out of a book, or did he do it from memory? If it’s the last one, then it’s not cheating.
Well, in my high school classes anything below 70% is an “F.” Anything below 40% is an “F-.” I was informed earlier this week that I am no longer to give the latter grade, because “it doesn’t look “kid-friendly” when the student appears before the Transfer Committee.” :rolleyes:
by Monstre:
I was asking why he hadn’t been banned before this; you imply he’s done it before. I certainly didn’t expect you to have him strung up already for this incident.
Stupid cheater anecdote: GirlfriendH’s father teaches online classes, and thus all student assignments are submitted electronically. One time, he was looking at a student’s paper and switched the view from “Normal” to “Page Layout”. Written in the header on each page was “This paper copyright 2004, BuyYourTermPapersOnline.com.”
On the desk, before the exam?
I was taking a few classes at a local JC before I got pregnant with my first, and there were terrible cheating problems on that campus.
My anthro prof was great. If she caught a cheater, she took their test (or whatever), removed them and their stuff from the room that very second, and marched them straight to the Dean of Students. The “F” was automatic, as was the accompanying phrase “Failed due to academic dishonesty” which was then placed on their official transcript. Like, forever. A few people tried to fight her on it, but they always lost because they were indeed cheating.
Great system.
I did see an impressive cheating effort somewhere recently, though. A kid typed up a bunch of info on the back of a water bottle label, then glued it back onto the bottle.
The kid got caught, but I admire the idea.
I’m a horrible person!! I cheated on my final exam in Latin class in high school. The chart you use to conjugate words into the various tenses was supposed to be memorized and used for translations throughout the year. I never took the time to memorize it, and just looked everything up as needed. Well, part of our final was a translation and all we were to have on our desks was a pen. I wrote in very small letter on a scrap of paper the entire chart, rolled it up and stuck it into the back of my Bic pen (before class). I slipped it out during the translation part of the test, and put it back before the test was over. I passed, but to this day I never know know wheather I’m supposed to use alumnae, alumni, alumnus etc.
Yes, on the desk, before the exam, before the prof arrived, to be exact. I don’t remember whether he was doing it from memory or from the book. Either way, its still cheating AFAIK.
Well, it could conceivably not be cheating. If they wrote it out from memory and immediately before the exam (i.e. after they sat down to take the test), then I wouldn’t say that’s cheating at all.
I’ve had tests where I was studying furiously before the exam, and I wasn’t sure I’d be able to remember it when the question came up during the test. So right before or during the exam I’d jot it down on some scrap paper or in the margin in my exam booklet.
How could that be considered cheating? You (generic you) did memorize the information, and did not bring any “supplementary” material into the exam room.
Well, it could conceivably not be cheating. If they wrote it out from memory and immediately before the exam (i.e. after they sat down to take the test), then I wouldn’t say that’s cheating at all.
I’ve had tests where I was studying furiously before the exam, and I wasn’t sure I’d be able to remember it when the question came up during the test. So right before or during the exam I’d jot it down on some scrap paper or in the margin in my exam booklet.
How could that be considered cheating? You (generic you) did memorize the information, and did not bring any “supplementary” material into the exam room.
Although, it’s not cool that he wrote the information on his desk. Defacing school property isn’t good, and that will leave the information there for at least the next few days - or longer. What is someone in the next class has an exam on that topic? What if they get busted for cheating then?
I taught for a while at a liberal arts college with an “Honor System.” The gist of this was that you weren’t supposed to cheat, and if you saw someone else cheating you were to turn them in. (Right. At a small college in the middle of nowhere, where the only prayer you had of a social life was staying in good graces with your sorority/fraternity.)
The kicker though, was that, as part of this honor system, no professors were allowed to be in the room during a test. You hand it out, go back to your office, and the students bring you the tests as they finish. I couldn’t believe it when they first told me about the policy.
I got to sit on the Judicial Committee for a while, too. That was educational. The best ones were where two students had copied from each other on a lab assignment or some such and you got to watch them diplomatically try to shift the blame onto each other for 3 hours.
I make “cheat” sheets during exams. I remember where inforamtion was on my study sheet, and I re-write my study sheet on a blank piece of paper in the exam. I don’t cosnider it cheating, I know the stuff, I just need to see it to make sure its right. (If that makes any sense.)
Or did, when I was a student.