A teacher was telling me recently at the private school she works at everyone has to do their assignments through some Microsoft server that autosaves documents like Dropbox or something. So the teachers can track progress on papers, and makes it virtually impossible to plagiarize. It also has the bonus of letting teachers review early drafts so they could correct students early, if needed.
It sounded a lot like coddling to me, but she said it leveled out the grades because the Asians cheat as easily. And students that were smart but sucked at writing big papers could actually get help along the way.
A teacher was telling me recently at the private school she works at everyone has to do their assignments through some Microsoft server that autosaves documents like Dropbox or something. So the teachers can track progress on papers, and makes it virtually impossible to plagiarize. It also has the bonus of letting teachers review early drafts so they could correct students early, if needed.
It sounded a lot like coddling to me, but she said it leveled out the grades because the Asians cheat as easily. And students that were smart but sucked at writing big papers could actually get help along the way.
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