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minus-squarerustydomino@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up45·9 months agoI’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.
minus-squarek110111@feddit.delinkfedilinkarrow-up17·9 months agoIt was probably cuz you can’t run plagiarism checks on it.
minus-squarerustydomino@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13·9 months agoYeah I know that one but in this case it was pretty clear it wasn’t plagiarized.
minus-squarepurplemonkeymad@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·9 months agoOcr is a thing, not that hard to get the text back.
minus-squarelud@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·9 months agoPlease tell me that you at least showed the student that you can save a word doc as a pdf.
minus-squareohlaph@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·9 months agoI wouldn’t be surprised someone else wrote it.
minus-squarezerofk@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up2·edit-29 months agoI’ve seen pdfs with just a photo of a monitor showing an error message.
minus-squareSkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up5·9 months agoI’ve had support tickets with screenshots pasted inside a power point presentation
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.
It was probably cuz you can’t run plagiarism checks on it.
Yeah I know that one but in this case it was pretty clear it wasn’t plagiarized.
That bad eh
Ocr is a thing, not that hard to get the text back.
Please tell me that you at least showed the student that you can save a word doc as a pdf.
I wouldn’t be surprised someone else wrote it.
I’ve seen pdfs with just a photo of a monitor showing an error message.
I’ve had support tickets with screenshots pasted inside a power point presentation