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Your Students Are Copying Code You Can't See Academic Integrity 6 min
Priya Sharma Priya Sharma • 3 months ago

Your Students Are Copying Code You Can't See

Traditional plagiarism tools compare student submissions against each other, creating a blind spot to the internet's vast code repository. When a student copies a solution from Stack Overflow or clones a GitHub repo, standard similarity checks often fail. This article breaks down the technical and pedagogical methods to close this critical integrity gap.

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The Code That Broke a University's Honor Code Academic Integrity 7 min
Alex Petrov Alex Petrov • 3 months ago

The Code That Broke a University's Honor Code

When a single, cleverly obfuscated code submission exposed the limitations of traditional plagiarism checkers, Stanford's CS106B had a crisis. The incident forced a complete re-evaluation of how to teach and enforce code integrity in the age of GitHub and AI. This is the story of how they rebuilt their defenses.

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AI Detection Is a Distraction From Real Code Integrity Academic Integrity 5 min
Emily Watson Emily Watson • 3 months ago

AI Detection Is a Distraction From Real Code Integrity

The industry's panic over ChatGPT is a shiny object distracting us from the foundational rot in how we assess code quality and originality. We're chasing ghosts while ignoring the rampant, mundane plagiarism and technical debt that's been crippling software projects and student learning for decades. True integrity requires looking beyond the AI hype.

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