Sat, 13 Nov 2021, 02:30 unfortunately, more on cheating
My students, I just got email from a student who cheated but received 90% on the second programming lab. He was delighted that his cheating had not been detected. The purpose of this email is to make sure everyone knows that the grade each student initially received for programming lab #2 is the grade earned assuming the solution submitted was the student's own work. That grade will be changed to a 0 and the student will lose a full letter grade on his final grade in the course if the student's solution was not his own work. Why am I bothering the class with this? Very simply, if a student who cheated sees a good grade for his program, I want to be sure that student does not assume he got away with cheating, and be encouraged to cheat again. The truth is he did not get away with it and after I have had a chance to review the cheating scripts, he will be penalized severely if he cheated. My hope is that by notifying everyone now that the grade they see for their Lab #2 is true only if they did not cheat, students who think they got away with cheating and are tempted to cheat again will be deterred from doing so. Good luck with programming lab #3, the midterm next week, and the rest of the course. Stay safe. Yale Patt