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minus-squarerustydomino@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up43·11 months agoI’m a professor and require students to submit typed homework as either docx or pdf format - a student wrote their paper in Word, took a screenshot of it (including their desktop), then saved the screenshot in pdf format.
minus-squarek110111@feddit.delinkfedilinkarrow-up15·11 months agoIt was probably cuz you can’t run plagiarism checks on it.
minus-squarerustydomino@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12·11 months agoYeah I know that one but in this case it was pretty clear it wasn’t plagiarized.
minus-squarelud@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·11 months agoPlease tell me that you at least showed the student that you can save a word doc as a pdf.
minus-squareohlaph@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·11 months agoI wouldn’t be surprised someone else wrote it.
minus-squarezerofk@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up2·edit-211 months agoI’ve seen pdfs with just a photo of a monitor showing an error message.
minus-squareSkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up4·11 months agoI’ve had support tickets with screenshots pasted inside a power point presentation
I’m a professor and require students to submit typed homework as either docx or pdf format - a student wrote their paper in Word, took a screenshot of it (including their desktop), then saved the screenshot in pdf format.
It was probably cuz you can’t run plagiarism checks on it.
Yeah I know that one but in this case it was pretty clear it wasn’t plagiarized.
That bad eh
Please tell me that you at least showed the student that you can save a word doc as a pdf.
I wouldn’t be surprised someone else wrote it.
I’ve seen pdfs with just a photo of a monitor showing an error message.
I’ve had support tickets with screenshots pasted inside a power point presentation