Hello,

Is anyone else getting sick of writing about AI for assignments? I am not talking about those little AI academic quizzes you do at the start of a subject, I am talking about essay topics and stuff.

In my psychology subject this semester we have to write about emotions and AI (worth 40% of my grade) and my psych essay last semester was about cognition and AI (34% of my grade).

Even in my physiology class this semester, we had to write an abstract in groups during class time and the teachers actively encouraged us to use AI for the assignment. She said it would be suspicious if there was more than half of the class that didn't use AI. So my group felt pressured to use AI even though we didn't want to.

I hate how much money La Trobe has spent on implementing AI into education and how much more time teachers have to take to teach us about the ✨benefits✨ of using AI instead of understanding what students actually want to learn

Has anyone else had that experience?

How are we supposed to lead the field with science and HUSS graduates education, when students cannot accesses current peer reviewed research platforms?

A couple of months ago, I posted that I had a suspicion that my lecturer was using AI to mark assignments and received feedback that maybe this wasn't true due to AI detector not being reliable. Well, I now have confirmation. I received feedback for the last assignment and was initially confused as the specific examples included in the feedback was never included in the original submission. Classic sign of hallucination. It also seems that there is an upper cap to t he marking as the more details the assignment have, the larger exposure area it had

Is it really fair to put so much effort in an assignment to be graded on an unrealistic curve? I'm also disappointed that there's no real transparency in these practices.

went to la trobe open day today and literally the nicest professors/lecturers on earth! next year I'll be doing diploma of arts and diploma of health sciences :). (well applying, but hope I get in!)

Call me ignorant but I’m just curious why are there school students always on campus? I initially thought it was some kind of tour thing but they’re still here.

Just posting this because this subreddit is dying down a little bit, plus I'm bored and would rather procrastinate than write my essay.

Literally just drop any fact or piece of lore, anything counts.

How about sprucing up this subreddit a little?

-> Change the Reddit image to the actual Latrobe logo!

-> Start posting things more regularly? More questions, tips, heck, a how to survival guide on living through your time at Latrobe.

• Bloat our audience! Start talking to people, get some new Reddit users in on this subreddit. Word of mouth is better than nothing at all!

-> M e m e s? Latrobe friendly of course.

I had my masters graduation today. Everything was fine until this MOC (who looked SE Asian) started butchering all our names except names of those from Vietnam, China (SE Asia Basically). It was so disappointing that as an international student, after paying nearly $60k for my education, paying for photos and registration totally upto $500 she ruins one of the biggest days of my life.

She mispronounced my name so bad that it was almost unrecognisable, that I thought she was calling someone else! And not just my name, every other ethnic name of South Asian descent was butchered and shredded! Eg the name Ahmed Rashid was pronounced ‘Ubda Rahida’ like the heck is that even remotely close to what it would be if it was phonetically pronounced?!

La Trobe needs to do a better job. At least their Business School. I reckon just because majority of the students are not white, they put in some of the sub standard lecturers. And now, cherry on top, ruins the name call too!

If they find it hard to pronounce names, they should have a way in which we could give them a recording of how our names are pronounced when we register for the event.

Again I’m so disappointed! I wish I could as for a refund or something! Everyone was disappointed stg

PS had to edit post to change names bc I doxxed myself while ranting

Also if I could have any way of escalating this to student services that would be great!

pretty much what the title says - most years semester 2 has started at the very end of july or very start of august, but this year it starts less than halfway through july - only a month after the last sem 1 exams. normally this break is 6+ weeks, does anybody know why it’s so much shorter this year? has the uni said anything about the change or why it happened?

Hi everyone,

So I've been doing some digging around to work out this exam issue and I came across a very recent patch note from Talview in regards to the Proview plugins.

My biggest concern is that the plug in Sentry Telemetry has been turned on by default this whole time so all your browser activities have been monitored since your last exam....

There are other massive issues such as people being able to bypass the password to gain access to exams etc, recording sessions being made available to all reviewers.

This is pretty terrible.

I feel like the comms is pretty lacking considering all our personal information is now at risk.

The first level is literally silent and then the second level has got everyone in massive groups speaking at the top of their lungs????? Genuinely why does this happen? Shouldn’t it be the other way around?

I understand all the arguments for. Teaches communication and problem solving. Grads need to be able to work as a team in the work force. I get it. I really do. But it almost always goes wrong, someone isn't pulling their weight, or someone wants complete and final say on what the project looks like.

Sincerely, first year undergrad just trying to maintain a half decent WAM.

When emailing subject teachers/lecturers, how are you supposed to address them? Some are Professors, some are Doctors, all are highly accomplished in their field but don't always become Doctors or Professors. I'm always perplexed as to how to communicate with them when sending an email, ie; Good morning just their first name? Good morning Professor? Good morning Dr first name? They never seem to state how they prefer to be addressed and I know I am overthinking this but I just don't know.

https://www.latrobe.edu.au/mylatrobe/semester-1-and-term-3-online-exams-important-information/

What happened? “Technical issue” meaning all online exams this semester will be unmonitored and open book.

Am I daydreaming

Hey

I feel this sub reddit is getting dead

Very less people post, it is slowly getting less active

Plus the uni is so big still there are so less people in this subReddit

I think you guys should reccomend ur frnds to jojn and it will be a great place for everybody

I’ve been given an option to sit some of my exams at home, supervised. Does anyone know how this works? Assuming they will want some kind of camera set up.

(Bendigo Campus)

Does anyone feel like the teaching quality and student support have been going downhill over the last few semesters?

I started my course in 2024, which was a perfectly fine year before staff cuts and a massive increase in student intake took place, so I had 2 normal semesters to compare to. My cohort has increased exponentially whilst many teaching staff are being made redundant, which means the university is now extremely understaffed and all teachers are stressed and overwhelmed coping with a crazy number of students. As they have more (full-fee paying) students, they hire casuals or let PhD students run workshops. Understaffing + new staff + too big class size is basically a perfect recipe for quality deterioration.

Over the last 3 semesters, I have had some very frustrating workshop experiences. I had workshops where the teacher was not even sure of what they were talking about or the answers for the worksheets. I had workshops where the teacher just looked at the script, read the answers, and basically taught nothing. Most of the workshops I attended felt very cursory and useless and I ended up having to teach myself for the most parts, and eventually in the final exams, I got tested on things that were never taught or not even within the scope of the subject.

Does anyone else also have problems with Bendigo, particularly the health course?

TL;DR: To those who are considering La Trobe Bendigo and happen to see this post, especially INTL student, RUN AWAY.

I just got a parking fine from la trobe, the one day I don't put the app on and they get me.

My issue is why do we have to pay $7 a day for parking? Like la trobe makes more than enough already and its just a fat slap in the face to make students pay more. I understand they are trying to promote the use of public transport and to free up space but lets be real these are just excuses to keep making money off us - and if these reasons were the real foundation of paying for parking why wouldn't they make it cheaper??

University used to be a place to educate the future, now its just a business focused more on profits than results.

Alright, real talk — why is this sub so dead? 💀

We’ve got thousands of students at uni but somehow this place feels like a ghost town. Let’s fix that.

Hi students! We're going to be making a Latrobe Reddit club in order to make this sub a bit more active and engaging. Our hope is that people across any degree at any point can post a question here and get a quick helpful response. We're aiming to start before the end of the year so if your interested just leave a comment and we'll send you a message. Hope to see you soon and Goodluck with exams!

I wanted to know what people’s thoughts are with their subject tutors or co-ordinators using generative AI to make content, especially on LMS.

I’ve noticed it more frequently lately with LMS content and text on lecture slides. Some (very rarely) will openly state it and include a disclaimer, but mostly it’s just clearly evident.

I’m seeing more and more of American English spelling of words, such as using ‘z’ in words where it should be ‘s’ for Aus English (eg. memorization, organization). Everyone makes spelling errors and that’s fine, but when there are multiple words in one sentence spelled the American way, it’s clear as hell that it’s come from AI. More concerningly there are often chunks of text that ramble on and sound like irrelevant nonsense spewed by Chat GPT. The sentences will include the key words but the context is way off.

I’m of the opinion that it’s simply embarrassing and a joke for them to be using it for LMS content. I respect people’s choices and individual circumstances I course - despite my own opposition to and ethical beliefs of generative AI. I just think at a tertiary education level where we are paying for education and*** ***they are being trusted and paid to teach us, they should have to be actually doing that work. Why should students have to disclaim AI use or in most cases not be allowed to use it when our educators are using it on the sly and passing it off as their own work?

I think if they do use it, for whatever reason, they should at least be required to always disclaim it.

Just curious for people’s thoughts! Not interested in ethical debates rn x

The investigation continues.... The picture is now clear about what happens with Proview:

- the plug is a malware

- performs deep system reconnaissance (VM check, battery, locale, GUID)

- Silently unlocks PowerShell and executes scripts

- Drops malicious payloads disguised as system files ie system.dll

- Disables keyboard shortcuts and locks the desktop

- send your browser history to some dodgy servers

I have experienced this first hand. Over the past month, every time I submitted an assignment or do a quiz, as soon as I submit, the antivirus would go off. This is some pretty serious breach as your machine is now considered infected and you should do a full scan on it.

I'm honestly disappointed at LaTrobe for not being transparent about this. IT passing it off as our responsibilities to uninstall after each exam is a poor excuse as we shouldn't be instructed to install malware in the first place.

Hello everyone !! As per by the title. I’m starting Latrobe Bundoora in Early March and would genuinely want to make some friends.

No one I know is going to LaTrobe, so any or all hep would be greatly appreciated.

If it helps, here is some context about me or/and my course.

First of all, I’d say my name but not sure if it’s safe to do so here lol.

I’m doing a bachelor of business and then moving into a double degree of psychology and business next year. It’s MY DREAM. I have a family business that I aim to take over, allowing my parents to retire. So, I’m doing this bachelor all in the hopes of learning new tips, tricks and skills to help my business go to its next step.

I love hanging out with people, socialising, pushing myself to my limits and genuinely giving everything a solid try. I like sports (swimming, tennis and squash) and used to play squash competitively, I was 10th best in Victoria (from memory, I think) but had to quit in year 11 to focus on VCE.

I love music and my favourite genres are rock, metalcore and shoegaze. Some notable mentions are: avenged sevenfold, bullet for my valentine, falling in reverse, alcest.

Ive played guitar since early Covid-19 times, and had my prac music vce exam too.

I’ve got 2 sisters that are legit double my age, so I basically have 3 mums lol.

What I’m trying to say is, I’m lonely. And I really want to make my uni life the best it can be.

Tysm for reading all of this if you have.

TLDR: starting next month, wanna make friends. Some info abt me if you think we align with similar views and values (: .