The professor uses chat gpt for grading

[Anonymous]

Grades at DS’s university are due today or tomorrow.

DS just sent a screen shot of a professor who basically says he is going to use chatgpt to generate feedback and grades on essays he assigned but doesn’t have time to grade himself.

What do you advise DS to do, if anything?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Grades at DS’s university are due today or tomorrow.

DS just sent a screen shot of a professor who basically says he is going to use chatgpt to generate feedback and grades on essays he assigned but doesn’t have time to grade himself.

What do you advise DS to do, if anything?

Look through student handbooks, and if they get anything less than an A, dispute the grade

[Anonymous]

Name the school so that the rest of us have a heads up

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Name the school so that the rest of us have a heads up

I would rather not. I suspect this may be more widespread anyway… I am just shocked the professor told students in an email it was intention to do this.

[Anonymous]

It probably means the essays in question are just to prove reading comprehension. Your kid should think of them as a study exercise, like making flash cards. The Chat GPT comments are just like an online quiz, or something.

If the professor is using Chat GPT to grade/comment on anything with original thought or research, that would make less sense.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It probably means the essays in question are just to prove reading comprehension. Your kid should think of them as a study exercise, like making flash cards. The Chat GPT comments are just like an online quiz, or something.

If the professor is using Chat GPT to grade/comment on anything with original thought or research, that would make less sense.

Professor said he was going to use chat gpt to generate feedback on the essay and assign a grade for the course.

Now he just told everyone he will miss the deadline to submit their final grades. So clearly this was some panicked attempt.

Not sure what happens next.

[Anonymous]

1) I would only advise my child if he was asking for advice. He's an adult, he can decide what to do.

2) If he asked, I'd probably advise either going (in person) to the professor's office hours to express my concern (and making sure I also had something substantive to discuss with the professor - if the only visit you ever make to a professor's office is to express a concern about grading, that would be Bad) or going to my academic advisor. Not to tattle, but to say, "hey, I've got at least one professor using ChatGPT for grading, I'm concerned about this, I want to make sure I'm getting good, relevant feedback and this is new technology that often makes pretty serious errors."

[Anonymous]

He likely is doing this to put the fear of God in them not to plagiarize, as that would be detected through the program.

If a problem comes up and the student feels his work has not been fairly evaluated, he can take it up with the professor and, if needed, the department chair once the grades come in.

[Anonymous]

They can use Chat GPT to check if the students are using Chat GPT. I think that is more so what they meant.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:He likely is doing this to put the fear of God in them not to plagiarize, as that would be detected through the program.

If a problem comes up and the student feels his work has not been fairly evaluated, he can take it up with the professor and, if needed, the department chair once the grades come in.

No, the essays were turned in a while ago. Has nothing to do with being a deterrent for plagiarism. He wants to take a short cut.

[Anonymous]

I mean, does it really, really matter? Most of the people on my college English Department use a set of canned responses per letter grade for essays. Then there is maybe one personal comment for feedback.

If we have 200 students per semester, each assigned four essays, do you really expect us to not use some shortcut?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I mean, does it really, really matter? Most of the people on my college English Department use a set of canned responses per letter grade for essays. Then there is maybe one personal comment for feedback.

If we have 200 students per semester, each assigned four essays, do you really expect us to not use some shortcut?

Maybe not on the feedback bit (although honestly the student could get the same feedback putting their essay through chatgpt themselves) but letting chat gpt assign the essay a grade seems beyond the pale. For one thing, it suggests the professor (who admits to being overwhelmed and has since told student in multiple classes he will miss the deadline to turn in grades for the semester) hasn’t read the essays himself.

[Anonymous]

Contact his department chair. It would be best if the students do this rather than the parents.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It probably means the essays in question are just to prove reading comprehension. Your kid should think of them as a study exercise, like making flash cards. The Chat GPT comments are just like an online quiz, or something.

If the professor is using Chat GPT to grade/comment on anything with original thought or research, that would make less sense.

Professor said he was going to use chat gpt to generate feedback on the essay and assign a grade for the course.

Now he just told everyone he will miss the deadline to submit their final grades. So clearly this was some panicked attempt.

Not sure what happens next.

He probably got reported.

This is definitely NOT okay.

If someone was going to complain, it should be to department chair not the professor.

Is it a large school?

I am a professor and find this shocking and appalling.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I mean, does it really, really matter? Most of the people on my college English Department use a set of canned responses per letter grade for essays. Then there is maybe one personal comment for feedback.

If we have 200 students per semester, each assigned four essays, do you really expect us to not use some shortcut?

Do you teach at a large state school?

What an AWFUL way to teach writing!

I am a faculty member and write extensive personalized comments for all student--including those writing 20 page papers.

You owe them that, or you should switch your test format (short answer, multiple choice, presentations, etc).

You sound burnt out and should retire.