I am an #adjunct at a university where I teach one online #PoliticalScience course. Currently grading assignments and writing comments like this: "Too perfect to read like anything other than a copy-and-paste job".
@publickovacs
I required students to submit papers to me via the course dropbox online.
It was easy enough to pick up a sentence and search it... and too often it sadly came back with the document from which the sentence was lifted.
AFTER showing the class how to research and cite properly, I had no time or patience for plagiarism.
@dougthecoach
My challenge is that my days as a full time prof are in the rear view and this is a campus on which I have never set foot. If I had, I could've done my schtick where I tell them that at the end of poli sci grad school, I had a full time gig teaching freshman composition so I am way better than TurnItIn and its ilk
@dougthecoach
Can confirm re: quality, although I didn't retire. My institution collapsed financially and they laid off 40%+ of the faculty, many of us tenured profs
@publickovacs
Yes... one of the reasons why I took early retirement from my college gig was because the average quality of work submitted was declining.
The best work mind you kept getting better, but the bottom 25% were getting worse and worse.