If they insist, refer them to the professor. If the students complain that they want to be able to make up the credit or feel they should get a grade, tell them categorically no. If your professor asks, you can say that you chose to do nothing, but that of course they could not receive credit for that work, which you assumed was what he implied in his advice. Since even copied homework takes time, and it's very likely that they will be caught, it's not going to be worthwhile to copy and not get any credit. Just give them no credit at all for that assignment. The Dean of Students people tend to be pretty reasonable when it comes to sanctions from what I hear. It turns out that this kind of violation is serious, but it's not going to destroy their life. Or is there a better, less obvious way to handle this? Is my professor right - I only have two options? (I cannot find any school-specific information about this.) But I don't want to ruin their undergraduate lives. If I do the latter, the punishment will extend beyond their grade - they will probably fail the class, or even be suspended. He has given me two options: do nothing, or report them to the Dean of Students. The professor that oversees my class doesn't have time to talk to me hence I am here. They each said they worked together, but didn't copy (slim chance.
I showed them the highlighted TurnItIn gradereport and their reports side-by-side.
I brought them outside class one at a time and asked them what happened. I couldn't believe it - I had just explained to them the week prior how easy it was to spot plagiarism. This week, two more students blatantly copied chunks of the other's paper. I didn't take action on the other, besides a stern talking-to. One of the plagiarizing students dropped the class herself.
I gave a long speech about academic honesty and such. I repeated the "your text should not be found anywhere else in the universe" talk. I made it clear that they are not to work together and that no text in their reports should be found "anywhere else in the universe."Īfter the first week I caught a group of two plagiarizing.
They submit their assignments to TurnItIn, which you may know highlights any text pulled from another place. To give some background, I am a TA at UCLA for a lab class.
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