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submitted 9 months ago by The_Picard_Maneuver to c/[email protected]

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[–] rustydomino 45 points 9 months ago (4 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 9 months ago (2 children)

It was probably cuz you can't run plagiarism checks on it.

[–] rustydomino 12 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 15 points 9 months ago

That bad eh

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

Ocr is a thing, not that hard to get the text back.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago

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

[–] ohlaph 3 points 9 months ago

I wouldn't be surprised someone else wrote it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

I've had support tickets with screenshots pasted inside a power point presentation