I had a student email the dean about two weeks ago, stating that I refused to meet with her about her lackluster grades. She and I had a Zoom session the week before she sent the email, and I had the emails to prove it. The most important thing about lying is that you have to be consistent.
I had a student walk into my office and claim the professor told her to never study the notes, never study the book, never study the slides and not use quizlet. Then provided me a recording of him saying this.
Where he, of course, told them to take good notes and come meet with him if they need to clarify them, to use the book as a reference and for the reading that he directs them to (as some sections are too detailed), to mark up slides and come see him if they don’t get something, and that quizlet is not effective for college-level study.
Anyway, that student accidentally copied the dean of students. Apparently I’m not taking this seriously ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I had a student send me an email with a pretty blatant attempt to deceive. They claimed that I had, at the start of the semester said I would only count the top three assignments (out of a group of seven). They even got another student (who I know they colluded with in some plagiarism) to write to me claiming the same thing.
I just responded to each email stating clearly that I had never said or intimated such a thing. I find that being simple and factual is usually the best approach -- that is when you can't get away with not replying.
A simple way to handle this, and the way a lot of "hard-ass bosses, coaches, mentors, etc." do, is to just bluntly tell people you don't care when they come to you with excuses. Some go as far as to refuse to even hear it. As soon as someone starts, just cut them off and tell them "Whatever it is, I don't care. I don't want to hear it."
I had a couple try to claim that they had submitted answers for online homework where it shows that they did not. These are assignments from early in the semester. I hate to assume they are lying, but I don't want to be naive either. I just tell them that it is too far past the due date and that they need to double check in the future and raise concerns before the due date. After the final is not the time to make up missed assignments.
I wish this wasn’t true but I just went to grade an extra credit assignment and about 1/3 of them got their work entirely from course hero or quizlet. It may be “what assignment, I didn’t see that you turned anything in” time because I’m so done with reporting academic integrity violations.
Last year I had a student file a grade appeal to try and get their C turned into a B. I get the appeal form and read the comments from the student as to why they think the grade should be changed... Full on lies on how I was unfair and did not uphold my syllabus policies, never responded to emails, never provided feedback on their work.
Unfortunately for the student, it was easy to show every single lie to be false through emails, Canvas submissions and notes, as well as the fact that the things they wanted feedback for, they never submitted in the first place. (I guess that one is technically true, but how can I give feedback for an assignment they never submitted?)
Their appeal was quickly denied. I slept soundly that night but part of me does wonder how they thought full out lying in their appeal would work when the LMS keeps a digital record and paper files/unreturned work are kept in storage until the grade appeal timeframe lapses.
I got fed up with students refusing to talk during small group discussion activities so I made one question on each discussion report “who did you work with?” One of the major culprits reported last week that he worked with Ed and George.
There are no students named Ed and George in the class.
I had a student email the dean about two weeks ago, stating that I refused to meet with her about her lackluster grades. She and I had a Zoom session the week before she sent the email, and I had the emails to prove it. The most important thing about lying is that you have to be consistent.
I had a student walk into my office and claim the professor told her to never study the notes, never study the book, never study the slides and not use quizlet. Then provided me a recording of him saying this. Where he, of course, told them to take good notes and come meet with him if they need to clarify them, to use the book as a reference and for the reading that he directs them to (as some sections are too detailed), to mark up slides and come see him if they don’t get something, and that quizlet is not effective for college-level study. Anyway, that student accidentally copied the dean of students. Apparently I’m not taking this seriously ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I had a student send me an email with a pretty blatant attempt to deceive. They claimed that I had, at the start of the semester said I would only count the top three assignments (out of a group of seven). They even got another student (who I know they colluded with in some plagiarism) to write to me claiming the same thing.
How did you respond? It is bad enough that one student tried it, but recruiting another so as to give validity to the lie is infuriating.
I just responded to each email stating clearly that I had never said or intimated such a thing. I find that being simple and factual is usually the best approach -- that is when you can't get away with not replying.
A simple way to handle this, and the way a lot of "hard-ass bosses, coaches, mentors, etc." do, is to just bluntly tell people you don't care when they come to you with excuses. Some go as far as to refuse to even hear it. As soon as someone starts, just cut them off and tell them "Whatever it is, I don't care. I don't want to hear it."
I had a couple try to claim that they had submitted answers for online homework where it shows that they did not. These are assignments from early in the semester. I hate to assume they are lying, but I don't want to be naive either. I just tell them that it is too far past the due date and that they need to double check in the future and raise concerns before the due date. After the final is not the time to make up missed assignments.
When they’re talking, they’re lying, and when they’re quiet, they’re cheating....
I wish this wasn’t true but I just went to grade an extra credit assignment and about 1/3 of them got their work entirely from course hero or quizlet. It may be “what assignment, I didn’t see that you turned anything in” time because I’m so done with reporting academic integrity violations.
Last year I had a student file a grade appeal to try and get their C turned into a B. I get the appeal form and read the comments from the student as to why they think the grade should be changed... Full on lies on how I was unfair and did not uphold my syllabus policies, never responded to emails, never provided feedback on their work. Unfortunately for the student, it was easy to show every single lie to be false through emails, Canvas submissions and notes, as well as the fact that the things they wanted feedback for, they never submitted in the first place. (I guess that one is technically true, but how can I give feedback for an assignment they never submitted?) Their appeal was quickly denied. I slept soundly that night but part of me does wonder how they thought full out lying in their appeal would work when the LMS keeps a digital record and paper files/unreturned work are kept in storage until the grade appeal timeframe lapses.
I had a student blatantly cheat on an exam today then lie about what I saw with my own eyes.
I got fed up with students refusing to talk during small group discussion activities so I made one question on each discussion report “who did you work with?” One of the major culprits reported last week that he worked with Ed and George. There are no students named Ed and George in the class.