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Students Looking For Easy A Target Online Courses, Where Cheating Is Easier

Posted by timothy on from the cloud-this-cloud-that-cloud-jump-ropes dept.

An anonymous reader writes "As online courses become mainstream, some students are finding they are often easy to game. A group of clever students at one public university describe how they used a Google Doc during on open-book test for a new kind of 'cloud cheating.'" Instead of "cloud" all the time, can't we switch it up with "on the internet"?

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  1. In my day there was an easier way to cheat to an A by NotSoHeavyD3 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Simply take a course where you were already familiar with the subject matter. (I really suspect a lot of the students in the language classes I took were already fluent in the language. Boy did that suck for me.)

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  2. MBA? by grasshoppa · · Score: 5, Funny

    A group of clever students at one public university describe how they used a Google Doc during on open-book test for a new kind of 'cloud cheating.'"
    Instead of "cloud" all the time, can't we switch it up with "on the internet"?

    Must have been business majors.

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  3. Nonsense! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Everyone knows that everyone with a piece of paper saying they graduated college is intelligent and deserving of a job. They shouldn't have to show you that they know what they're doing! You should just immediately give them a job!

  4. Re:In my day there was an easier way to cheat to a by Nidi62 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Simply take a course where you were already familiar with the subject matter.

    I know I sure as hell didn't major in History for the amazing job prospects :)

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  5. Re:more tests need to be open book / open google by tbird81 · · Score: 3, Funny

    You're lucky it isn't based on reading comprehension.

  6. Re:The term "cloud" by AK+Marc · · Score: 1, Funny

    The "cloud" is a manager's term for any device or service that has sufficiently unknown characteristics. The managers got tired of saying "I don't know" when asked about how something works, so now, it's "that's a cloud". Whenever I hear someone say "[the] cloud" I put in "something I don't understand" and it's never failed me yet. "cheating over the cloud" "cheating over something I don't understand"

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