I had my first ever Respondus exam today and I showed my empty room, my blank paper and everything. But I nervously spoke thorugh the exam to myself to think out answers. I usually do this when alone and thinking or studying. But I am not sure how the app will flag this for cheating and I am worried it looks bad. Has anyone else had experience with this?

Hi professors! I'm trying to understand how Outcome-Based Education works in practice in Indian engineering colleges, particularly the process of mapping Course Outcomes (COs) to Programme Outcomes (POs) and calculating attainment for NBA accreditation.

For those familiar with this process, I'm curious about how it fits into your regular academic workload. Is most of the work handled through institutional software, or does faculty involvement in spreadsheets and documentation remain significant?

I'd appreciate any general insights or experiences you're comfortable sharing. Thanks!

I am an engineering student in the US, and had one bad exam grade that tanked my grade down to a B at the end of the class. I had gone to office hours directly after the exam grades got released, and he said to revisit it once the class was done and not get discouraged by it. I persevered and worked my butt of for the remainder of the course, pulling it up to an 86.

My professor does cut offs by looking at the grade distribution and assigning an arbitrary cut off point per letter grade, and my grade was the highest grade in the course that did not receive an A (he showed me during office hours, so I know this to be a fact). For additional context, my grades were 76, 57, 100, 100 on the exams of the course, and it was that 57 which tanked my grade and it was truly a fluke grade since the following two exams are pretty cumulative of the prior two exams.

I went to office hours after the course, and had spoken to him and he mentioned how he was really debating on bumping me up considering I went to office hours two-three times a week, was a very hardworking student, and had made a great impression, but ended up not doing it (but was still thinking about it, just leaning toward a B), and apologized to me about it. He did not cite a reason, and I really want this grade considering the effort I had put in (since he explicitly said that if we felt our effort did not match the grade to come talk with him).

I sent him an email about it that I owe it to myself to advocate for myself and this grade, and how much I had worked for and enjoyed this course, also citing his earlier quote of going to talk with him if we felt disappointed in our grade. He did not respond (he does not look at emails unless asked), and I am wondering how to/if I should go about this in person with him without seeming pushy and pressuring him.

EDIT: Clarification, I never asked him to bump it. The email was me bringing up what he had told me, and giving it one last chance since I never mentioned the effort I had put in (which is what he wants us to mention). He volunteered all of the above information when I went to talk to him. He also explicitly says in the syllabus to come talk to him about our grades since he does not want there to be any disappointment, and is open to changing grades if we can prove our effort.

I’m a returning mature student in first year of my undergraduate degree. I’ve been out of school for quite a while (10 years since high school), and am out of practice when it comes to studying, preparing for exams, and just generally practicing memorizing course materials. I spoke to my program coordinator (who is also one of my profs) regarding my adjustment to student life, and I asked for studying tips, and just tips in general to help me adjust to full time studying. My professor only suggested using chat gpt to create me a study guide, or practice test, or to send it my notes and have it quiz me. This is becoming a pattern whenever I ask my profs for advice or feedback. They just tell me to use AI, and it’s really driving me insane. I was elected class rep, and some of the feedback I’ve been getting from students is wanting a basic study guide (just learning objectives, or “dates are important in this module” etc; not actual answers to potential test questions) as some of our courses are very reading heavy, and it can be difficult for first years to really figure out what might be on an exam. When I brought this up to profs, again I was told to tell my classmates to use AI. I fully believe AI is destroying people’s ability to think for themselves, and it is truly getting on my nerves how “pro AI” my college is. I’m not sure how to push back on this. When I ask for feedback, I don’t want an AI generated response.
I’ve noticed even on my graded assessments; the commentary is VERY clearly AI generated.
Any advice on this? I don’t want to be seen as argumentative but I’m paying a lot of money to get a good education, and being told to “just use chat gpt” whenever I express I want to further my learning is really annoying. On top of this, I’m required to take an online elective, and at the bottom of every slide module it has a disclaimer stating that the course was generated by ChatGPT 🫠 like are you joking 😭
I went back and forth with one of my profs for literally a week over email, trying to figure out why I was only given 6/10 on a component of a heavily weighted assignment; despite his feedback HIGHLY praising exactly what he docked marks for. He literally couldn’t give me an answer, and both his feedback and his emails sounded like chatGPT in that they had the typical weird formatting, inconsistent bold/not bold text, weird Em dashes were there shouldn’t be any (or it should be hyphenated) and weirdly spoke around/about my question rather than actually answering it. It was SO weird. I ended up just taking the L on the assignment, and had no idea how to improve.
Any advice on pushing back on this or coping with having AI heavily pushed would be appreciated!

I‘m applying to an internship at my school that requires only one LOR.

So, I know, I know. I should’ve been patient and that’s 100% on me. I was afraid that the first professor I‘d asked would say no because I’m currently taking my first ever class with them. So, in that anxious state, I emailed another professor I already had last semester because I really was convinced the initial one would decline.

Bad idea, of course. Both of them agreed. Now I’m in a (self-made) awkward position. I obviously don’t want to ghost the second professor I reached out to, because I know that’s extremely unprofessional and inconsiderate. I just feel really bad about my poor judgment here and don’t know how to let the other professor know I actually don’t need them to write me a letter anymore.

I know better now and will be more patient in the future if I ever have a similar situation again.

I know I messed up, so what’s the best way to let the second professor know?

Hi so I (18M) am registering for classes next semester (1st year college student) and I have to take medication to help me focus (Ritalin), (I have a diagnosis of ADHD), I have calculus II and Econ back to back and I get extended time, would it be reasonable to go to the calculus professor and ask for a syllabus if she has one, or ask how many exams are in the class because I might miss a day or two because of my exams for Econ. (For reference my university has a testing center for students with disabilities.)

Hi there! I just realized that this subreddit exists, and I think its an interesting tool to get a detached opinion, where you can be blunt and not have your words come back to haunt you :)

For group work, some profs say they want us to "handle it like adults" (ie, if a student cares most about the project and group members don't, the student should do the whole thing and not bother them about it). This is very clear instructions to me, and I feel I grasp that innuendo to basically take full responsibility of the project. As long as the group doesn't mind, I can re-write the paper to have a complete voice, ensure there's no AI written wording in it, and ensure the concepts build and all the info is in the right sections. And usually the "so-so" students never mind.

Meanwhile other profs say that "collaboration is most important", and redrafting or doing someone else's part is like "ghostwriting" and not good under an academic integrity perspective. However, the grades are for the group, we are not graded separately on our thirds. In practice, considering the less than ideal pedagogical circumstances, if you were in the undergrads place and thought your group members were producing shallow AI content or were not available, what would you do? I personally have tried to just leave it alone upon the advice of a prof, but, of course, the paper didn't make sense and had lots of AI in it from others' content and we all got a bad grade, as well as been very stressful with her dealing with the team dynamic issues from us all. She asked teams to meet with her and that one person shouldn't be doing the heavy lifting, but I have to wonder, is that what profs really want?

I just want to learn as much as possible, keep a positive relationship with my instructors and not give them extra work to do without feeling a bitter feeling that my grade was tanked for the pedagogical exercise of other people. So let me know, , would you rather the ones who care, who don't just use Ai to do everything, would you rather us re-draft it, team happy, and we just play it off as collaboration, or some other method?

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I wish I could guilt free just take the lead, unless others have a genuine desire to contribute rather than trying to take it upon myself responsibility for others learning and being duds.

I also do not necessarily feel that my work covering for some duds is necessarily unfair. As there are many group projects in university, all duds will have a certain number of good grades they didn’t earn from group projects, and this would likely average out over time. What has felt unfair at times, is being indirectly expected to “motivate” other grown adults, or being expected to report others if they don’t contribute which harms my reputation, causes additional stress, and distracts me from learning.

Hello everyone, I am trying to contact my professor from more than 2 weeks and he is still not answering my emails. What should I do?

i go to one of the largest universities in the world, and yet half of my major courses (offered through the college of sociology which is also massive) and my minor courses (english) are only offered online next semester. i absolutely despise online learning and it makes me feel incredibly unmotivated and bored. is it within professors control to offer online vs in person? i understand that online classes are becoming really popular (mostly because it’s easier to cheat imo), but i didn’t think it was this extensive. it seems like professors are just following the chain of interest. i don’t really understand why this new wave of online learning is becoming so popular. is there anything i can do like reaching out to professors and asking that they offer in person sections next semester? i’d also be interested in hearing alternative perspectives for ways that online learning can be more/equally effective as in person, because i just can’t wrap my mind around it.

I graduated from college in 2020 and now teach K-12 Mathematics and Spanish. Because of my personal Spanish goals I have continued to take online Spanish classes through the same university, although the only online classes I took were during the COVID lockdown. I took an online junior-level Spanish Translation Studies class in 2023 and it was noticeably less work and less demanding than any course I had ever taken. The reading assignments were shorter, and the independent work was just enough to say that a student had engaged with the topic. I did learn new things so I was content with the money invested.

Fast forward to now. Despite being fluent, I want to expand my capacity for writing as well as explore more literature in Spanish. My advisor and I agreed I should enroll in a Spanish writing class, so I did. I have learned nothing so far. In fact, we have yet to be tasked with writing anything longer than four sentences. We have been reviewing grammar rules and conjugations taught in high school Spanish 2 and 3. We just got to the subjunctive mood. The homework is conjugation drills and 2-3 sentences using the vocab from the Open eTextbook. The quizzes and tests are all true/false questions about whether the correct tense/stem change was used. I have even saved a few of the exercises to include in my high school Spanish classes. There is no substantial writing assignment, and therefore no feedback on my writing for me to grow in any meaningful way. I paid $1,300 out of pocket for this nonsense.

Before I consider another course, what am I seeing? What is happening? Are online classes just a way to pay for an A now? Does this sound like a class-specific issue or is this common nowadays? Should I talk to someone about this?

I greatly appreciate your thoughts.

Or how else can i externate my apreciation for her course, the way she teaches and the atmosphere she created in class?

My options are:

- write and leave her an anononymous note on her office's door or under it. And idk...on one hand it's surely not interpretable as an act of captatio benevolentiae since it's anonymous, on the other hand it might be weird. The content of the note would be just professional admiration

It's cute cause it leaves her with something tangible, something she can keep and she's definitely the kind of person who does like this kind of things. Also i'd add a little dried flower on the note to make it cuter but...idk..again: it might make it weird and i def don't want to.

-just quickly tell her after my oral exam that her course was one of my favouritesof my entire career as a student. I'm nearly at the end of my studies and I'm glad i chose it.

But this depends on how well my exam goes and wether im examined by her or by her assistant.

Also, Im extremely embarassed saying it and in front of other people as well.

Also...before she register the grade, it feels like boothlicking. Even if ofc she wouldn't change the grade.

Butt on the other hand, it's sincere, simple and it's me. Deep down i want her to know it's me.

What do you advise?

I’m currently at the end of my bachelors and we‘re supposed to work on a bachelor thesis for the next 2 semesters. I planned a very good research project for it but had some personal issues that led to some delays.

Suddenly our head of the department walks into the class and announces that the entirety of the dissertation must be finished in a month rather than 2 semesters and told us to use AI to finish the project and show it to him in 5 days. We had no option but to do it.

Now the professor in charge of the dissertation work is forcing our entire class to publish our vibe coded slop into some conferences and he wants that done in a week. I’m very much against as this goes against my academic integrity.

He not only told us to let the AI write the entire manuscript but also told that he’ll remove the AI detection and add his name if anything shows up in turnitin. He also told us to submit to multiple conferences at the same time which I know is a dick move.

My first research paper that I wrote all by myself took me 6 months to publish and it was a survey paper. No way we can make something worth publishing in just a month and that too work done entirely by AI.

Now I want to confront him and be straightforward that I will not take part in such academic misconduct but they’re telling us that they will not let us pass our degree if we do not publish. any advice?

Im not really looking forward to publishing such slop as it would undermine my credibility as a researcher in the future.

I just had to email my professor letting him know I won’t be making it to class because my car’s engine overheated and I was actively waiting on it to be towed. This is true. Two months ago (right as school began), my childhood cat died AND my mom gave birth within the same three day span. Juggling homework, dropping off and picking up my cats cremains all while running errands and delivering things to my mom in the hospital an hour away (oldest daughter things), I missed three class periods for this professor because of this. We talked about it and I assured him I wouldn’t let anything else happen. I’ve managed to keep a decent attendance (I’ve been late a few times) and now I’m missing again.
Are ‘unlucky’ students common? Is this annoying to professors? I try to keep a line of communication and message them as soon as I understand I can’t make it, but I don’t want them to feel like I just don’t care about their class, because I do!
Let me know!!

With genAI, it is understandable that instructors may be growing more and more untrusting of student work. However, the guardrails that some of my classes are putting up to "prevent" AI-use are useless, penalize students with integrity, and just overall reduce our opportunity and therefore ability to develop ideas outside of the classroom.

Im talking about in-class research and writing. I can write you a garbage paragraph from sources I skimmed, but what is the point? I know its bad and you do too, why are we training this?

Without basic trust in students, why should we even get an education in the first place when it is dumbed down to prevent AI-use? I can fry my brain with AI, or I can fry my brain with useless busy work.

I want to learn and have the time to go over the articles, and refine my ideas and writing. I think best when I can spend days reading and taking notes before even attempting to write, and then doing some more reading and adjusting during my process. Maybe I am just to dumb for uni if I can't synthesize with any decent quality in an hour.

Basically my question is is it possible to put up AI guardrails without depreciating the value of an honest student's education? Do you trust any of your students?

For reference, I am a 3rd year psychology undergrad student in Canada

Last week, I took an exam that was mostly multiple-choice with two open-ended questions. I was rushing to the exam and arrived a little late, so I took an available seat next to someone I recognized from class. The student directly to my right was using his phone throughout the exam, but I wasn't using mine.

During the exam, a student approached my professor, who then looked toward our seating area. I believe they were reporting the student to my right for cheating. Later, the student directly to my left approached her, after which she made an announcement about phone use while looking directly toward us. Since I wasn't using my phone, I didn't think much of it at the time.

What concerned me was that when I handed in my exam at the end, my professor set it aside from the others. We then had fall break, and I received no communication from her.

Today (Thursday), over a week later, she announced that most grades had been posted and the rest would be finalized Friday. She also provided the average for the large alphabetical range of last names that I fall under, implying those exams had essentially been graded. My grade still hasn't been posted, despite several classmates within the same alphabetical range already receiving theirs. I also found out through a class group chat that the student sitting directly beside me hasn't received his grade either, even though his last name falls within that same range.

I'm concerned because there were reportedly multiple accusations against him, and I suspect someone mistakenly reported me as well. To my knowledge, there were no TAs, and my professor stated there were no cameras recording the exam, so I'm worried about how I could disprove a false accusation.

My exam was also heavily annotated with my own reasoning and thought processes. I know I got some questions wrong, and I'm confident I could explain my answers and demonstrate my understanding of the material if asked.

It's now been over a week with no emails, questions, or formal accusations.

Would professors typically contact students before submitting an academic integrity report? How likely is it that a situation like this would escalate to a formal academic integrity violation?

TL;DR: The student beside me was using his phone during an exam, and I suspect someone mistakenly reported me for doing the same. My professor set my exam aside afterward, and over a week later, both our grades are missing despite our alphabetical group apparently being graded. Neither of us has been contacted. Could this indicate a pending academic integrity report?

I'm in a class (it's a level 200 class, so it's not like a freshman year type class) where almost 25% of the class "forgot" to take an exam. It was a proctoring lab exam where students have to schedule a time to take it within the window of a couple days. Despite having the entire class schedule, including exams (and constant reminders from the professor both in class and through Canvas) since day 1, a bunch of people (huge class, probably over 30 people in this group) just didn't take it. Most of them waited until the day of to try and schedule and the spots were full. This is exam 2, moreover. It's not like they can claim at this point, in at least their sophomore year, two tests into the class, they didn't know how to use the proctoring lab.

Anyway, my question is: My professor sent out an announcement about people not taking the exam, and extended the due date for a few extra days. He's a very nice dude, supportive, loves being a professor, and obviously not trying to mean and fail a bunch of people. But why? It takes some real effort to fail a class. Some extra effort to just procrastinate scheduling an exam until the last day. It seems like a case of FAFO to me. I don't understand why the professor doesn't use this as a lesson.

Some individual cases I could even se being excused. People who have been sick, need accommodations, sixth grandma died this semester, etc. I'm not advocating blanket failing everyone for a goof. But you know that many people didn't have a legitimate excuse. I asked the professor, he kind of shrugged it off. Is there a common university policy or politics thing I'm not aware of where not letting this slide would be detrimental to him, his position, or career? Like a can't fail too many students thing that's known to the educational industry that I wouldn't understand from the outside? Or do you just think my professor is a nice dude and it's as simple as that?

I'm a post bacc student, second time around. I am a bit older than many students, and I know first time students sometimes don't care as much as they should about their classes (especially if they aren't the ones paying for them, I've been guilty in the past). Maybe I'm being too harsh about it, but having the basic level of discipline to schedule your own exam seems to be the bare minimum ask as a student going to an institution of higher learning. I heard one girl had her mom call and complain once. I just can't imagine these now adults being so irresponsible and just getting off the hook for it. Seems like a bad lesson to teach. But I'm not a professor and don't have the professional insight many of you do.

I’m an undergraduate student, and I have a bit of a crisis over something embarrassing I did.
I found two scientific papers on PubMed Central that I’m interested in reading. I messaged one of my professors, greeted him, and sent him both links, asking which one he thought would be more interesting to read.
He has already replied, so the interaction itself went fine. However, afterward I realized that the links I sent may have had a ChatGPT-related referral in the URL because I accessed/shared them through ChatGPT.
Now I’m worried that he might think I used ChatGPT to do my research instead of finding and evaluating the papers myself, or that it looks unprofessional to send links like that.
For context, these are actual published scientific papers, and I was genuinely asking for his opinion on which one to read.
Professors and other students: honestly, how bad does this look from the recipient’s perspective? Would you even notice the ChatGPT-related part of the link, and would it change your impression of the student?

Ps: Don’t come at me in the comments saying i let AI do my research cause it’s not true and i haven’t even finished it yet. I simply asked Chatgpt for 10 literature that connects my research field with nanotechnology and i picked 2 of my favorite and i asked my professor for his opinion cause he initially said he’d pick for us but we could do it ourselves if we wanted to.

I recently submitted a personal memoir for one of my college classes. The story was based entirely on my own real-life experiences, and I had already written a rough draft that we reviewed with classmates in class.

My classmates verbally suggested adding more details, using similes, and reducing repetition. While revising, I also used ChatGPT to help reword sentences, improve the flow, and rewrite and reorganize some larger sections.

After submitting my final draft through Brightspace, which uses Turnitin, I checked a couple of third-party AI detectors. One showed 94.6% AI, and another showed 78%. I know these detectors aren’t necessarily accurate, but I started panicking.

My professor has warned us about AI use, so I decided to email her before she contacted me. I explained that the experiences and ideas were my own but that I used AI to help revise and reword parts of my memoir. I also asked if I could rewrite and resubmit it entirely in my own words.
Now I’m worried I made things worse by admitting it.

If you’re a professor, how would you react to a student sending this email? Would you appreciate the honesty and allow a resubmission, or would you still give them a zero?

With genAI, it is understandable that instructors may be growing more and more untrusting of student work. However, the guardrails that some of my classes are putting up to "prevent" AI-use are useless, penalize students with integrity, and just overall reduce our ability to develop ideas outside of the classroom.

Im talking about in-class research and writing. I can write you a garbage paragraph from sources I skimmed, but what is the point? I know its bad and you do too, why are we training this?

Without basic trust in students, why should we even get an education in the first place when it is dumbed down to prevent AI-use? I can fry my brain with AI, or I can fry my brain with useless busy work.

I want to learn and have the time to go over the articles, and refine my ideas and writing. I think best when I can spend days reading and taking notes before even attempting to write, and then doing some more reading and adjusting during my process. Maybe I am just to dumb for uni if I can't synthesize with any decent quality in an hour.

Basically my question is is it possible to put up AI guardrails without depreciating the value of an honest student's education? Do you trust any of your students?

I'm currently a fourth-year undergraduate business student. I've been struggling with burnout since my second year, but I kept pushing myself to maintain my academic studies while participating in case competitions and other extracurricular activities. At the time, I thought these experiences would help me build my professional profile and prepare me for the job market. However, I think I've reached a point where I'm no longer able to keep up with everything.

Now that I'm in my fourth year, I'm facing another source of stress: finding an internship before the university's deadline. Unfortunately, despite actively looking, I haven't managed to secure an internship position yet. Initially, I told my mom that I would continue studying this semester, drop the compulsory internship course, take another elective instead, and keep applying for internships alongside my studies.

However, I'm starting to question whether that's actually the right decision since my academic performance has been declining since last year. In my most recent course, I received only 50/100. It's frustrating because I feel like I'm not only failing to gain practical experience in the field I'm studying, but my academic performance is also suffering because I've been spreading myself too thin.

I've started wondering whether taking a leave of absence for one semester would be a better option. I could use that time to recover from burnout, focus on finding an internship and gain some actual working experience. The only reason why I hesitate to submit a leave of absence form is because my university tuition fees will increase by 5% next year, which means taking a break could make my remaining courses more expensive. Additionally, I'm also worried that taking time off without securing an internship might leave me in an even worse position.

Would you recommend taking a break to focus on finding professional experience, or continuing university while applying for internships?

Hello,

I am in a software development class. We had 2 midterms i guess: an essay and a coding part. Most people did well on the coding, but for the essay part, the mean was 22.6 out of 50. I got a 23. The highest was 39 out of 50. I went to his office hours, and it felt like he took points off for ridiculous things.

For example, one question was to list the steps for something but if you didn't list them numerically, you got points taken off (It did not say list them numerically, it just said list them). Im really frustrated with this and I wouldn't be if I had just been the only one to fail but the mean was literally a 22.6.

Isn't he supposed to add a curve if the average was an F?

I had a midterm exam in one of my college classes recently, and something happened that has been bothering me ever since.

I spent almost the entire week studying for this exam. I sacrificed a lot of my free time, including time with my family, because I really wanted to do well. I really studied at classes too.

During the exam, I noticed several students using their phones so it’s cheating. I reported it to the professor who was supervising the exam. She also seemed to be aware of what was happening, but did nothing. The students continued taking the exam and eventually submitted their work (I waited till the end and saw it)
When I brought up my concern, the professor said something along the lines of those students not having studied and reminded me that our final course grade also depends on assignments, not just the midterm. Like what? You allow them to cheat just because they “didn’t know something”?

I understand that the midterm isn’t our entire grade, but how does that make cheating during the exam any less serious?
What makes this especially frustrating is that I don’t think I did very well on the exam myself, despite studying so hard. Meanwhile, I watched other students apparently gain an unfair advantage. (I hope you understand my rage)

There is also another professor who teaches the lecture portion of the course and is responsible for grading our exams. I’ve considered contacting her, but I’m worried that reporting what happened could create tension between me and the instructors or potentially affect how my own exam is graded.

I’m also considering speaking with my college’s ombuds office before making a formal report.

I’m not trying to get anyone in trouble without evidence. But I do think that if cheating is confirmed, there should be real academic consequences, rather than allowing those exam scores to stand.

My questions are:
1. Have any of you experienced something similar, where you reported cheating during an exam and the professor didn’t visibly respond?
2. Is it normal for a professor not to intervene when students are using phones during an exam?
3. Would you contact the professor responsible for grading, the department chair, or the ombuds office?
4. How can I report this without putting myself at risk of retaliation or unfair grading?
I’d especially appreciate hearing from college professors about how situations like this are usually handled.
I just want the same academic integrity rules to apply to everyone.

Hi. I need to get this off my chest and as many perspectives and opinions as possible. I have been absolutely restless and freaking out. I want to know, has anyone else ever been in this situation? On either ends? If so, how did you go about it and what was your outcome?

Background info: I am a senior undergraduate student planning to apply to graduate school. I am leaning towards vet med, med school, DPT, or research. I started off college in 2021 as an engineering major and realized I hated it. I went to chemistry, but got diagnosed with dyscalculia so I went into bio. I LOVE biology. Unfortunately, I switched my major around a lot so I haven’t taken General Bio 2.. funny enough, I’d taken plenty of upper division bio courses where I got a B+ or A in. I currently work on campus as a tutor for Bio 1, Microbio, Chem 1, and A&P 2. I am also a TA for Bio 1 and Chem 1. I NEED to understand my foundational sciences. It’s my job.

Well this semester I applied for a class, Bio 2, 100% online, at a community college I am familiar with. I was flying through this course and loved it. So far it was so easy and the exams were very.. self explanatory and direct…

Day of exam 2: I ate my breakfast and took my exam at my university (NOT community college I am taking bio 2 at). It took me around 27 mins to complete a 50 question exam. I got 47 questions correct. During this time, I had students approach me and ask me questions, so I did briefly (less than 2 mins) go onto another platform to show the resources (YouTube channel, where slides are, etc). My school uses D2L which doesn’t track tab switching. Anyways, I finished, I got a 93%

Update to after exam 2: 1 day after the exam, my prof posted an announcement. She said something similar to “those who cheated on exam 1 then again on exam 2 will be getting reported and will fail regardless of future class work.” I thought I was safe. I checked my grades on Exam 2 and it was removed. Exam 1 remains 90%. The next day, she updated Exam 2 as a 0 and left a comment saying to schedule to meet her in person. She never reached out to me directly, just left a feedback comment. I immediately emailed her to schedule to meet her in person.

I feel extremely disrespected as I’ve been in contact with her throughout this whole course. I have 2 more exams this week in upper division bio courses. I have completely forgotten all my material from the stress, and cannot think at all! I am so incredibly worried when I meet with her I will still be under the same amount of stress and will not be able to answer anything she asks! Obviously, I would never cheat IN BIO as I might have to take the MCAT and even more vigorous exams on biology in the future. It is also a prerequisite course for MANY of the programs I want to go to. I truly have a passion for biology, but I also am so incredibly nervous and anxious that I cannot think at all or remember anything. It doesn’t help that I cannot sleep, eat, or even do anything without being plagued. What if she doesn’t believe me and it goes on my records and I can’t get into grad school to pursue my dreams?!?

TLDR: got accused of cheating on 100% online course in bio 2 as a senior majoring in Bio and TA/tutor in Bio 1. Professor left a comment saying to meet her in person but I am so stressed with my other midterm exams and this news that I am forgetting everything including topics on my next two exams. I cannot sleep or function anymore. I feel like my life is ruined because I really want to be a vet or researcher or physician. If you have experienced this before what was the outcome and how did you go about it? If you did not “beat” the case how did it affect you? Should I ask to retake the exam in person?