When I am spending my time frantically marking, it is likely that the same holds for my colleagues. And with marking comes checking for issues with academic integrity. So now that first semester marking has properly kicked off, the emails have started coming in with request to check various submissions.
So far it hasn't gotten out of hand, but that might just be the calm before the storm. I could imagine that I might get inundated a bit closer to the marking deadline. For now I have checked my own assignments (which had very few issues), and have been alerted to three other assignments. And one of these had only one case, and I figured we could just let that rest. Yes the suspicious paragraph was a bit weird, but not in a way I figured breached academic integrity regulations. And the other two assignments just had some students who had stayed a bit too close to the source texts they had used. Standard stuff! But I am braced for more to come. In a way it helps that I have all my marking coming at the same time; I should be close to being finished by the time the suspected tsunami arrives…
| Anonymised snapshot of some student submissions; all of them looking impeccable |
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