Are discussion questions becoming irrelevant with AI??

[davewill]

As an update, I just got off of a Teams meeting with her.  I showed her the discussion board so she could see what I am seeing.  I also told her that I think part of the problem is that the instructor might not be reading the posts since every student gets the same reply.  She said she would report both concerns to the appropriate parties as they are two separate concerns.  The professors are expected to respond to the students’ individual posts. She said that she will leave my name out of it and just say it came up during an advising meeting.  She has access to the course room so she will go in and do a deeper dive.  I told her it’s always the one student every week.  And I might have seen one or two others, but I am not sure.  If there are others, they weren’t as blatant.

@davewill - You make a great point and it is similar to what my husband said and the thing that made me decide to say something.  It can call into question the integrity of the school and the program.  And the really funny thing is this week’s topic is  “Truth and Trust: Business Needs Cannot Replace Doing the Right Thing“.   Oh the IRONY!

Glad I was wrong about the usefulness of reporting the problem to the advisor.

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Where I come from, snitches get stitches. They're just hacking their degrees in a different way than you're hacking yours.

Can't agree with that. Finding low cost credits is perfectly legitimate. We've had credit sources in the past that have been dropped by schools because they cannot keep their academic integrity up. We were seeing people race through ridiculous amounts of credit in short time periods. Partly because it was possible to cheat on the tests.

Besides, the real problem in this case is the professor who seems too checked out to notice rather than the fact that an individual student is trying to cheat.

I suppose you're OK with people hiring others to write their papers and take their tests, too?