From Campus To Online/ Module Cheating

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3 years ago

I was once a clinical instructor before in one of the private institution in the city (read my story on My First Job in The Academe). During that period of time, I was astonished at the rampant cheating taking place with the students in the classrooms and in the campus.

Being a student, I could only remember sharing answers with my classmates on our assignments and some projects. It was seemed so hard to be cheating in exams in one seat apart or worst testpapers in set A and set B. Our Anatomy class moving exam will never give us a chance to answer, but just to startle us to literally "move" lol! Practical and revalida exams will only shed light for some tips and hints, and unfortunately, still no chance to cheat.

Still, I think, every student cheats in one way or another. One big reason for cheating is that they see their peers getting away with it.

Campus Cheating

There must be a lot of ways on how to cheat, students are so innovative and creative in this aspect. Students looked over each other's shoulder, devised coughing codes to communicate with friends, and flashed answers on the backs of their hands while pretending to stretch.

I once caught one of my students using his cellphone to send answers via text message to a friend's phone. The code "28-2," meaning the answer to question number 28 was letter B. I immediately confiscated the test paper and gave both 5, this is F in some universities.

In a Philosophy class, two students turned in homework essays that were almost identical. The professor reported this incident to the college dean for investigation, and both students were suspended and given 5 for the course.

Incidents such as these are all too common. In recent years, many colleges and universities have reported a surge in plagiarism, unauthorized collusion on assignments and cheating on tests.

In the Koren Drama, Law School, one student so much admired in the campus for being intelligent, was caught plagiarizing a case study. She even tried to cover her cheating act by inadvertently covering a crime. Wow! I was dumbfounded how cunning some intelligent people are!

Online/ Module Cheating

Nowadays, learning academically has become hilarious with the new ways of learning especially in children. I have heard a lot of parents answering modules for their children. My brother, who is also a father, mostly busy with work have to rush answering some unanswered parts of his daughters module just to complete it during the submission day. The same scenario with a colleague of mine who has been preoccupied most of the days with work too, have to answer her son's module task. According to her, most of the lessons were just so difficult for a second grade schooler. Sometimes, she needs to use the internet to cram for additional information.

I've seen this meme in Facebook, and this might be one comical scenario of a student in an online class with his mom watching him. Poor kid, but this can be real in anyone's home.

My nephew already in middle school sometimes resorts to his classmates group chat to answer questions during online examinations. Most of his essay tasks were checked by yours truly, lol! For the reason that he struggles with how the questions are formulated. Seriously, I even have trouble comprehending all those stuffs. Sometimes, I wonder if I have ever encountered such lessons in my high school, because some are really mind boggling.

These are forms of cheating, but, parents rationalize it as a way to survive schooling for their children at this time of pandemic. This is a sad excuse, but a reality for all of us.

Closing Thoughts

While this surge in cheating has been blamed on many factors, including a declining emphasis on moral values in the home and school. Also, with the internet, students have access to a treasure-full of information they can pinch without proper attribution. There is that feeling about the internet that information is out there for everybody to use as they see it fit.

Well, I just hope that there is still learning despite all these things happening.

I can only hope.


Thanks for reading everyone!

Take a good rest now and may you have all the strength you need for another busy week of work and earning. xo


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If in-person classes were cheating, now it has multiplied, everything is online. It also depends on the home and as you have learned, the internet should be used as a learning tool.

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3 years ago

Yeah I hope so too. Unfortunately, the internet has been like a cowboy tool for a lot of students

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3 years ago

Kung dati na face-to-face ang cheating is student to student, ngayon student to Google. Lol! Even most of the teachers, sa Google kumukuha ng ipapasagot:D

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3 years ago

Totoo yan.. Syllabus na si google ngaun haha!

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3 years ago

Yup i hope the same. But it is fun helping with the modules sometimes. It is challenging also. They have quizzes which i think are "monitored".

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3 years ago

Challenging talaga sis grabe lalo na at mother tongue ang instructions ng ibang subjects.

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3 years ago

Yup, I truly agree with you that cheating is rampant especially during online classes. You just have to use alt+tab or chat on a server.

This just made me think of my sister in-laws recent exam. They made cheating hard even though it was online. They had to record themselves while taking the exam, have a mirror behind their back and it also had an AI that will detect movements. And the program also disables all the apps of the computer that you're using. She had to take this for her specialization.

Right now, it's like so easy to go through college because it's online haha.

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3 years ago

Wow! The effort they put to avoid cheating in online exams is impressive! I don't think most schools could finance in something like that though. Indeed, as PT imagine how we go through all the series of exams in college diba? Now, I don't think there will be moving exams, practical and oral revalida, if there is must be easy to come up with some notes somewhere lol!

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3 years ago

never once caught cheating pero mild lang naman nung high school...can't cheat during college din๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚

minsan di talaga maiwasan na yung parents yung mag answer nang modules nang anak

as for me, I just review his answers and if ever may makita kaong mali tinatanong ko lang siya why did he answer this until ma realize niya na mali yung nasagot niya๐Ÿ˜…๐Ÿ˜…

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3 years ago

At first ganyan ginagawa ng brother ko sa mga anak nya pero ngayon parang naumay na sa kka module, ung kuya parang nasanay na, kasali na dun ung group chat ng friends nya sharing of answers. Sa bunso na lng tumutulong brother ko, may iba talaga na questions na hindi kya sagutin ng bata.

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3 years ago

hhaha bakit wala kaming group chat na ganyan hahaha...

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3 years ago

We become habitual when we see our peers seeing a specific activity. We invent the new ways it is really halarious to know that online exams cheating have become very common and as I remember my personal experience was that I wrote my paper on my test clip board :)

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3 years ago

Cheating becomes rampant now with online classes. The classroom setting was way better I think for the students to study harder.

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3 years ago

Our year 2 students had their exams online last year. I received some pictures on WhatsApp and when i opened it,it was the picture of their exam screen. They sent the questions to me to help them answer despite the fact that i taught them same thing in tutorial. I sincerely don't know who to blame. It seems we students of nowadays are just naturally lazy and prone to cheat.

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3 years ago

Oh wow! How did they got it? Sad but students i think use technology and the internet as they see it fit without thinking of the consequences. Thank you!

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3 years ago

This is so sad nowadays. Using now modules is more possibility that the students cannot learn more. It is really hard compared the face to face classes.

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3 years ago

Iba talaga, mas mabuti ang face to face.. Thank you sis

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3 years ago

Kailan pa kaya yun ma'am Lyca? Kailan pa kaya matatapos tong pandemic na to?๐Ÿฅบ

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3 years ago

Cheating in students, in general, has always existed. Whoever says they have never resorted to it, even once to get out of an academic commitment, is simply not sincere, it is a self-deception... hehe.... interesting your article, to reflect on how to teach our children in the way they should be responsible with their homework.

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3 years ago

When the online and modular classes started i got busy too helping the kids sometimes and was inspired to write about it. Now, it seems the kids have adjusted.. That includes with cheating too.

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3 years ago

I remember when I tried to cheat on my exams it all went wrong. Very bad experience lol.

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3 years ago

My goodness! You got caught? Haha! Thanks my friend..

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3 years ago

It's a long story but I'm telling you I never felt like cheating again.

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3 years ago

Ah yes, if a person prefers to cheat they will find ways. Tsk tsk. The difference now is it is easier to cheat online. Lol.

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3 years ago

It seems very easy nowadays. Thanks sis!

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3 years ago

Everyone has cheated at least once in his/her lifetime. But we know that in thr end of the day, those who succeeded genuinely will always have something better than those who did not.

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3 years ago

That's really true sis. Thank you!

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3 years ago

This is really the sad truth. Student are just concerned in copying answers from their classmates and they didn't even read their own modules. There were just a lot of modules given in to be answered in a short period of time. In reality, good teachers take time to explain and discuss topics. They even cannot discuss the topics in the module when the class is face to face. It would really take time.

The educational system today is just focused on the amount of modules that the students "answered". They didn't think if the students learn something even read the module.

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3 years ago

That's true. I'm so much confused about the learning with all those information in the modules a lot is poorly absorbed :(

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3 years ago

Sad and true. I can even look forward later on to reports that will be posted regarding the declining quality of education here in the Phils.

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3 years ago

Kawawa lalo na mga grade 1 and 2, mostly hindi pa marunong magbasa, nawawala ang priority ng mga lessons..

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3 years ago