The Picard Maneuver to People Twitter@sh.itjust.works • 1 year agoThis is a major Life Pro Tipkbin.runimagemessage-square323fedilinkarrow-up11.12Karrow-down126
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minus-squarerustydominolinkfedilinkEnglish47•1 year 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-square@k110111@feddit.delinkfedilink17•1 year agoIt was probably cuz you can’t run plagiarism checks on it.
minus-squarerustydominolinkfedilinkEnglish13•1 year agoYeah I know that one but in this case it was pretty clear it wasn’t plagiarized.
minus-square@purplemonkeymad@programming.devlinkfedilink3•1 year agoOcr is a thing, not that hard to get the text back.
minus-square@lud@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglish6•1 year agoPlease tell me that you at least showed the student that you can save a word doc as a pdf.
minus-square@ohlaph@lemmy.worldlinkfedilink3•1 year agoI wouldn’t be surprised someone else wrote it.
minus-square@zerofk@lemm.eelinkfedilink2•edit-21 year agoI’ve seen pdfs with just a photo of a monitor showing an error message.
minus-squareSkaveRatlinkfedilink5•1 year 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
Ocr is a thing, not that hard to get the text back.
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