So, I was loading the last bits of stuff (photos and maps) about soil taxonomy onto the computer this morning before class. And I noticed my "desktop" on the computer (this being the one in the classroom where I usually teach) had a bunch of old presentations on it.
Hmmm, I thought, I wonder if the one from the student that I think was plagiarized off of is here.
I checked.
It was.
It was ALL I could do not to cackle evilly as the class - who have absolutely nothing to do with this issue, as the plagiarism is in another class - filed in.
So I'll do it now: MUAH hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
But I have that presentation now! I made a copy of it and I can compare it to the presentation today - and I can compare the data to the data in the paper. And as they are the same, oh how busted!
And oh what a relief for me to have PROOF. Real, true, incontrovertible proof. Stuff I could send off to the Dean if need be.
Fate has smiled on me today. For being a slob about cleaning up the desktop of my computer.
As much as it's going to be a pain in the patoot, I am going to require electronic copies of everything from now on - because it makes checking up SO easy.
3 comments:
Booo-yeah!!! < pumps fist in the air, does a victory end zone dance, is thrown off the field for unsportman-like conduct >
Oh, Instant Karma is such a foul creature!!! I'm happy for you.
You have found a way to avoid being either of THOSE profs (the Ostrich with her head in the sand, who know students cheat, but well, what can you do; or the Juggernaught who comes crashing down on the whole class for the infractions of the few or the one) AND found a solution to the easy scam to boot.
Good on ya!
If it's on a computer in the classroom, could that have been where your cheater got it? Hate to bring that up, and in either case their cheating is NOT YOUR FAULT of course.
Yay!
I'm an obsessive and paranoid neat freak when it comes to my computer, so even though I keep everything organized, I don't really delete anything. I have about a kazillion backups of everything.
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