> > had to award them 0s for assignments, which was heartbreaking
> You should feel nothing. They knew they were cheating. They didn't give a crap about you.
Most of us (a) don't feel our students owe us anything personally and (b) want our students to succeed. So it's upsetting to see students pluck the low-hanging, easily picked fruit of cheating via LLMs. If cheating were harder, some of these students wouldn't cheat. Some certainly would. Others would do poorly.
But regardless, failing a student and citing students for plagiarism feel bad, even though basically all of us would agree on the importance and value of upholding standards and enforcing principles of honesty and integrity.
> You should feel nothing. They knew they were cheating. They didn't give a crap about you.
Most of us (a) don't feel our students owe us anything personally and (b) want our students to succeed. So it's upsetting to see students pluck the low-hanging, easily picked fruit of cheating via LLMs. If cheating were harder, some of these students wouldn't cheat. Some certainly would. Others would do poorly.
But regardless, failing a student and citing students for plagiarism feel bad, even though basically all of us would agree on the importance and value of upholding standards and enforcing principles of honesty and integrity.