Kids think ChatGPT is going to save them…. TurnItIn says differently…

Love what just happened. My students turned in their assigned short research paper. I had them submit them directly to turnitin. TurnItIn says 80% used chaptgpt. They similarity score was over 93%

They all got zeros. “The mob” started to debate the plagiarism. Echos of “I didn’t cheat, I swear!“.

So I put up the TurnItIn reports on the projector and showed them all that ChatGPT is garbage, and if they try this crap in college, they would be academically suspended or expelled. Your zeros stand. Definitely a good day. 😃

edit: I know…. I was expecting lots of “feedback“ here. The students ultimately admitted to using chatgpt, and those who didn’t because they didn’t know how to, had their friends do it for them. i do double check against other sources, like straight google searches, and google docs history for the time stamps, but this was so easy… NO WAY my students wrote these papers...