- Aug 19, 2002
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Grrrrr.
First thing's first; I'm a teaching assistant (technically, a teacher since I'm the one who lectures) for an intro to MS Office class at a university level. While I was helping one student with something, my supervisor caught two students cheating on a quiz. The class has an exam coming up Monday afternoon...any serious suggestions as to what I should do with these two would be much appreciated. I'd like to beat them senseless, but they've got some policy against that in the TA handbook.
Edit....
Okay, last thing. Any critiques to this post I'm about to put up on my announcements page?:
During this afternoon's quiz, two students were caught exchanging answers. The undergrad handbook refers to this act as something called 'cheating' which carries penalties including expulsion and unforgivable F's.
Granted, Word isn't the most intuitive program to learn, but cheating on a Word quiz -- a multiple choice one at that -- steals the stupidity award from an unmentioned state's voting skills. A half-trained chimpanzee on his/her worst day has more common sense than these two students who I will deal with in cooperation with the Office of Judicial Programs.
Office XP isn't rocket science. Even if one does not understand the material and refuses to come for help, one can still achieve respectable grades by memorization alone. The bottom line is that cheating is dishonorable to oneself, not to mention extremely disrespectful to one's peers. It's not worth the trouble I will guarantee to make for you if you do it.
First thing's first; I'm a teaching assistant (technically, a teacher since I'm the one who lectures) for an intro to MS Office class at a university level. While I was helping one student with something, my supervisor caught two students cheating on a quiz. The class has an exam coming up Monday afternoon...any serious suggestions as to what I should do with these two would be much appreciated. I'd like to beat them senseless, but they've got some policy against that in the TA handbook.
Edit....
Okay, last thing. Any critiques to this post I'm about to put up on my announcements page?:
During this afternoon's quiz, two students were caught exchanging answers. The undergrad handbook refers to this act as something called 'cheating' which carries penalties including expulsion and unforgivable F's.
Granted, Word isn't the most intuitive program to learn, but cheating on a Word quiz -- a multiple choice one at that -- steals the stupidity award from an unmentioned state's voting skills. A half-trained chimpanzee on his/her worst day has more common sense than these two students who I will deal with in cooperation with the Office of Judicial Programs.
Office XP isn't rocket science. Even if one does not understand the material and refuses to come for help, one can still achieve respectable grades by memorization alone. The bottom line is that cheating is dishonorable to oneself, not to mention extremely disrespectful to one's peers. It's not worth the trouble I will guarantee to make for you if you do it.