Our job is not and cannot be policing students so that they don’t cheat. The average classroom instructor is a near-fatally overworked, underpaid contingent thought worker. Our job is to help students understand why the learning is more valuable than anything the cheating can get them.
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IMO, just make them do it again, correctly, with the right guidance.
I spend so much time trying to explain that writing in my class is about testing out ideas and thinking through stuff. It’s okay to write poorly at first
TurnItIn has been policing my kiddos (and stealing their intellectual property) for well over a decade.