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2026-05-03 19:08 UTC

@antopatriarca @nholzschuch I never said it was impossible. To save money in the last twenty years a lot of automated testing has been pushed , as well as group projects, homework , etc . Students manage to cheat using AI during written exams, we have an epidemic of infractions in my university at the moment.

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@antopatriarca@mathstodon.xyz 2026-05-03 20:01

@Fklv2 @nholzschuch But I don't see how it is saving money. An oral exam surely takes A LOT more time than an automated test, but AFAIK, you do not pay a professor by the time they spend doing exams. The automated test systems and the computers are, instead, surely a cost for the University. Moreover, correcting homework or group projects without an automated system will take as much time as an oral exam, if not more, for both the students and the professor. It seems to me that universities have been scammed by these software companies. You consider something that costs basically zero to the University as expensive, but you accept paying licenses to software companies for increasingly complicated anti-cheat systems that don't deliver. In high school, where you want several votes each year and students' availability is limited, oral exams may indeed take too much time. But automated tests seems a more expensive, but lazier and (now( outdated by AI, solution.

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