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rustydomino@lemmy.world
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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.

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k110111@feddit.de
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It was probably cuz you can’t run plagiarism checks on it.

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purplemonkeymad@programming.dev
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Ocr is a thing, not that hard to get the text back.

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rustydomino@lemmy.world
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Yeah I know that one but in this case it was pretty clear it wasn’t plagiarized.

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Rodeo@lemmy.ca
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That bad eh

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ohlaph@lemmy.world
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I wouldn’t be surprised someone else wrote it.

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lud@lemm.ee
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Please tell me that you at least showed the student that you can save a word doc as a pdf.

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zerofk@lemm.ee
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I’ve seen pdfs with just a photo of a monitor showing an error message.

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SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de
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I’ve had support tickets with screenshots pasted inside a power point presentation

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