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Was that a curveball? Nobody had told you beforehand?
by alanfranz 5y ago
Was that a curveball? Nobody had told you beforehand?
- 0xffff2 5y agoIt's certainly possible. Thankfully I graduated before Turn-it-in was fully mainstream and before online tests were even a thing AFAIK. Nonetheless, I had one professor decide midway through the semester that our final paper would need to be submitted to Turn-it-in. I had to go to office hours, point out that this requirement was not in the syllabus, and that if it was I would not have taken the course, and finally threaten to go complain to the dean. I was incredibly lucky to make it through school without ever having to submit to this kind of BS, but I rather think it's simply impossible today.
- alanfranz 5y agoTurn-it-in checks your assignment text against other submitted assignments, and highlights copypasted parts. Then the teacher chooses what to do. What’s your problem with it?
- 0xffff2 5y agoIt has been a very long time, but my recollection was that my primary objection was to granting them a perpetual, royalty free license to my work, i.e. that my own assignment would also be used as one of the "other submitted assignments" without any benefit whatsoever to me.
- alanfranz 5y agoThat’s something that I can understand. But is a university’s “normal license” for homework different? Don’t they have a right to keep your work?