IMHO: Most of the problems happen in early classes, by people who are not even students - one becomes a student after successfully finishing 2-4 classes, at least 2. They have measures against cheating and AI
There is no barrier to entry, people can study for free, from all cultures all over the world. That leads to all sorts of problems and frustrations.
And huge number of students, 100 times students = 100 times problems. And huge number of not well paid instructors, I guess there would be quite some fluctuation of instructor staff and subsequently occasional quality issues.
It is not UC Berkeley, but I would be surprised if quality of students in CS (that FINISHED - not those who tried to sneak in for free to try first few classes) was substantially different eg. from those at SNHU, TESU and similar....
I of course trust ashkir on what he wrote. Maybe he had bad mentor and should have reported the case.
My experience few months later (with a single class only) was different, instructors were deducting marks for plagiarism, I had one submission marked as plagiarized.
Instructor was nice but didn't waste time showing where I have plagiarized from (I didn't, didn't read on it anywhere, just pure mind stream on an obscure hobby topic) nor open to negotiating eventhough I have pointed where the problem likely was(sw config, after checking with other students). Also I have read on the forum about few who had their work marked as plagiarized, at that time.
There were no cases of blatant ChatGPT use in that class discussion (no idea about weekly submissions that only instructor could see), though with some I could feel they have used it partially.
There is no barrier to entry, people can study for free, from all cultures all over the world. That leads to all sorts of problems and frustrations.
And huge number of students, 100 times students = 100 times problems. And huge number of not well paid instructors, I guess there would be quite some fluctuation of instructor staff and subsequently occasional quality issues.
It is not UC Berkeley, but I would be surprised if quality of students in CS (that FINISHED - not those who tried to sneak in for free to try first few classes) was substantially different eg. from those at SNHU, TESU and similar....
I of course trust ashkir on what he wrote. Maybe he had bad mentor and should have reported the case.
My experience few months later (with a single class only) was different, instructors were deducting marks for plagiarism, I had one submission marked as plagiarized.
Instructor was nice but didn't waste time showing where I have plagiarized from (I didn't, didn't read on it anywhere, just pure mind stream on an obscure hobby topic) nor open to negotiating eventhough I have pointed where the problem likely was(sw config, after checking with other students). Also I have read on the forum about few who had their work marked as plagiarized, at that time.
There were no cases of blatant ChatGPT use in that class discussion (no idea about weekly submissions that only instructor could see), though with some I could feel they have used it partially.
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