This reminds me of an upper level undergrad math course at my school in which the professor left not only the exam document but her answer key in a shared folder of her account -- that is, freely downloadable on the web. Some students found out and used it to study -- some even copied straight from it (which is pretty silly in an upper level course).
When she found out she was apparently in tears (I didn't take the class, but I know several people who did). She said that if the cheaters dropped the course immediately she would not press the issue further. About half the students dropped the class that day. She had an advantage though, since the IP of everyone who accessed the answer key was logged, and it wouldn't be too hard to match up those IPs to real people who lived on campus. I think she was too shocked to want to go through with punishing all the cheaters.
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This reminds me of an upper level undergrad math course at my school in which the professor left not only the exam document but her answer key in a shared folder of her account -- that is, freely downloadable on the web. Some students found out and used it to study -- some even copied straight from it (which is pretty silly in an upper level course).
When she found out she was apparently in tears (I didn't take the class, but I know several people who did). She said that if the cheaters dropped the course immediately she would not press the issue further. About half the students dropped the class that day. She had an advantage though, since the IP of everyone who accessed the answer key was logged, and it wouldn't be too hard to match up those IPs to real people who lived on campus. I think she was too shocked to want to go through with punishing all the cheaters.