Should Instructors Ask Students to Show Document Histories to Guard Against AI Cheating?

‘Show your work’ has taken on a new meaning — and importance — in the age of ChatGPT.As teachers and professors look for ways to guard against the use of AI to cheat on homework, many have started asking students to share the history of their online documents to check for signs that a bot did the writing. In some cases that means asking students to grant access to the version history of a document in a system like Google Docs, and in others it involves turning to new web browser extensions that have been created for just this purpose.Many... [Read more...]