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[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (2 children)

I'm a professor and require students to submit typed homework as either docx or pdf format - a student wrote their paper in Word, took a screenshot of it (including their desktop), then saved the screenshot in pdf format.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

It was probably cuz you can't run plagiarism checks on it.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Yeah I know that one but in this case it was pretty clear it wasn’t plagiarized.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

That bad eh

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

I’ve seen pdfs with just a photo of a monitor showing an error message.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

I've had support tickets with screenshots pasted inside a power point presentation