“Our goal is to support legitimate educational growth, not cheating,” she said.
Laura Oppenheimer, marketing director for Quizlet, said that Quizlet is built to help students and their teachers practice and master whatever they are learning. “Because of this possibility, I try to stay away from test banks and will make up new exams each semester.” Kelly Ulto, clinical professor of accounting at Fordham University, said that she wasn’t aware of any of her materials being on Quizlet, but said it was a “real possibility” for many professors that their materials were being shared.
Luckily, Belmas said, she had switched up the questions this semester, but if you’re asking students something factual, “there’s only so many ways you can ask the question,” she said. Though the questions were word for word the same, some of the answers to the questions were wrong, said Belmas. The student’s motive for sharing the questions isn’t clear, but Belmas suggest that the student might have been part of a sorority (Greek houses have been known to create and share test banks). The student, easily identifiable by her username on Quizlet, had received an A-minus in the class, said Belmas. She said she was “disturbed” by how many of her own test questions she found on the site after less than one minute of searching.īelmas said that one of her students from last semester had posted two sets of questions from her weekly reading quizzes, as well as questions from a midterm. Reading about the TCU case, Genelle Belmas, associate professor in media law at the University of Kansas, decided to check Quizlet out. Īt least one professor has already discovered her exams on Quizlet. Students don't use these so they can hide from obvious searches.
Also, don't just search using your name, class, college. In another tweet, Stewart warned that “all profs should be on notice - just expect that your exams have been stolen and posted on Quizlet or elsewhere.”Īll profs should be on notice - just expect that your exams have been stolen & posted on Quizlet or elsewhere. “I find a moral flaw in the argument that if a prof has a copy of his/her exam from a previous semester stolen and posted on Quizlet, students who knowingly use and pass around a secret link to it are innocent because it’s the prof’s fault for not changing the exam,” he said in a tweet. Stewart was not permitted to comment for this article, but he said on Twitter that the professor in this case was not at fault for not changing the questions in the exam. Chip Stewart, associate dean and professor of journalism at TCU, is the administrator handling the academic misconduct case. CBS News reported that their professor said the students had a duty to say that they recognized the questions.Ī TCU spokesperson said the students’ appeal process is ongoing. The students are contesting the decision, saying that they used Quizlet to study but didn’t know that the questions they were seeing would be on their final. Other students openly tweeted about using Quizlet to cheat - either opening Quizlet in another browser while taking an online test, or studying questions on Quizlet in advance that they knew were likely to be on their test.Īt Texas Christian University last week, news broke that 12 students were suspended after allegedly using Quizlet to cheat on a final. “When you Google one question and find a quizlet for the whole test,” says another above a picture of a cartoon cat dying and going to heaven. "Yeah sex is cool and all but have you ever found your entire final on quizlet ,” asks one student in a tweet. But some students are also using the tool to upload questions from real exams, and other students are finding them. It’s very popular with students, and many are likely using the site legitimately.
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Quizlet is a free app (that makes money from advertising and paid subscriptions for additional features) for making flash cards and online quizzes, which can be used privately or shared publicly. Shout out “to Quizlet for making this possible,” says another, above a picture of a student in their graduation cap and gown. “Today I graduated and I couldn’t have done it without God and Quizlet,” says one tweet. Many students graduated last week, and on Twitter, many thanked the free app Quizlet for getting them there.
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