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[-] rustydomino@lemmy.world 47 points 2 years ago

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.

[-] k110111@feddit.de 17 points 2 years ago

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

[-] rustydomino@lemmy.world 13 points 2 years ago

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

[-] Rodeo@lemmy.ca 17 points 2 years ago
[-] purplemonkeymad@programming.dev 3 points 2 years ago

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

[-] lud@lemm.ee 6 points 2 years ago

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

[-] ohlaph@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

I wouldn't be surprised someone else wrote it.

[-] zerofk@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

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

[-] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 2 years ago

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

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