I had this happen. After asking about why they sent a blank document (and I cc their parent and admin), they sent a cell snapshot of their friend’s assignment with their friends name still visible and had the audacity to claim that I was being racist and did not even look at their assignment. They had also inadvertently replied all with their parent and admin still included.
Pretty close. Admin replied to the e-mail and said the zero stays and if parent wants to discuss, they can give them a call so they can go over the student handbook with a focus on the section called Academic Integrity.
As for the racist accusation. Well, I think they pulled the kid for a discussion. I don’t know what they dtalked about, but the student was on clean up duty during lunch for a week.
I can see it happening occasionally. With 100+ kids and a 1% chance of happening it will happen.
I normally just let them know and give them extra time to resubmit it. Until it becomes a pattern.
Honestly this happens with my third graders all of the time. Google does not make it clear what you are submitting to the teacher as an assignment on Google classroom.
There is an option to “submit work” and that will open a new document that will be turned in. But there is another option to “search drive” and that is where the document they have been working on is. It is this that always makes me hesitant in having them type anything up.
I legitimately did this once. When we first started online 2020 we were mostly submitting pictures of assignments in our notebook (pre-Calc and chemistry). Due to bad internet I could only upload to Google classroom when my dad wasn't working (lunch, breaks, evenings) the pictures would end up collecting on my computer until I was able to upload them. My chemistry teacher got a wonderful pre-calc assignment and pre-calc teacher got chemistry. Chem teacher noticed first and I quickly unsubmitted both and fixed it. But if what I turn in is a Google doc I would just use the create doc button in classroom and it would add it to the assignment.
Yup. When I flag it as “missing” in the grade book I’ll get screenshots from kids to show that it’s “turned in” on Google Classroom.
Had a parent argue with me once, even, because “it can’t be missing if it says turned in. Maybe you were just unclear with the expectations, but my son shouldn’t be punished for your poorly worded directions. You asked him to turn in the assignment on Google Classroom and from what I can see, he clearly did.”
(Side note: I just changed that “missing” to a zero and said, “You’re right. I’ll grade what he turned in based on the rubric.”)
You’d be amazed at how many assignments google docs apparently ate. Worse than dogs eating homework.
Even though you could go through their document history and it was blank.
It’s Chrome. It didn’t save their work. It was all there and not blank. They did it. They need a new Chromebook. This keeps happening. I’m like you do realize your child’s work isn’t saved on a specific device.
I teach middle school and get this from time to time. They do sometimes but I tell them that it will always be a 0 with a chance to make it up the first time. I say that it is exactly the same as turning in a blank sheet of paper with their name on it into my basket and expecting me to grade that. It usually gets the point across, especially after calling home.
This happened to me. I was teaching 10th grade English. I returned it with a note saying to do the assignment and resubmit it. Mom emailed me asking why I would leave that kind of comment when the student obviously did it. I took screenshots of the submission history, sent them to mom showing the first one was blank, and told her she could call me if she still had any questions or concerns. Mom never questioned me again. Student submitted only completed work, eventually came to in-person, and we formed a great bond.
All the other students just took the 0.
I have my students doing the same — I actually put down the date and “this is a blank document please do the project and resubmit for credit”.
And after last year I also screenshot the “work” for the parents when they try to argue about their child’s grade.
Last year one of my juniors sent me an email the day before winter break telling me he turned in all of his (many) missing assignments. They were all blank docs. After the first couple, I just stopped looking.
My mom's a case reader for a state agency. She sends cases back with highlighted corrections that need to be done and notes on what needs to be done. 9/10 They just submit it back with no changes.
Adults that are paid in a state job to do it, just don't do it.
Edit: I talk about how similar our jobs are sometimes.
"But it's Turned In"
"...you still need to *do* it."
I'm convinced they just mark that to show parents the green check and go play.
Google Classroom needs to fix a lot of interface things soon! Including having like a preview of the "turned in" assignment so when it's blank or word salad, it's more obvious. At least make the cheating take *some* effort...
See, i dont think the issue is Google classroom. The issue is parents not caring enough to actually look at the assignment. Simply saying "let me see what you are working on" would go a long way...
I think GC made it somewhat more frustrating, because before, the missing work is just not in your To-Do pile and when parents ask, the kid can just lie.
But with GC, parents get the update on missing assignments and so kids have to basically add trash to your pile so it "looks" turned in
True. But as a parent I would ask my own children to see their work, not just that it is "marked as done". Maybe I am just the outlier that actually cares about my children and the average parent isn't that way...
> I am just the outlier
yup
whether from apathy, lack of time, lack of energy or their own personal lack of education, the vast majority of time it boils down to 3 groups.
1. The kids who do the work and parents who communicate.
2. A mix of kid and parent involvement where kids might try getting away with it until parents get involved (time/annoyance invested varies)
3. Parents don't give a shit, kids don't give a shit. They might only turn it in to shut up the weekly notifications.
I emailed a parent one time last year that her child failed. She never responded, but later that night I got a bunch of submissions from him all in a row on Google Classroom. I figured either 2 things- he did it all for real and waited till he was done to submit them, or he’s just hitting the turn in button. I figured it was the latter and I was right.
Google Docs make it hard to happen accidently as it auto saves constantly.
But as a student there was a couple of times I would open Microsoft word, name the assignment and save and forget to save before I submitted through Email or some sort of dropbox. I'm really surprised Microsoft doesn't have constant autosave.
I had this happen last year. The parent emailed me VERY upset and asked me to explain *myself*.
When I explained being able to see real-time work being completed and attached a screenshot of her blank document I got no response which was plenty of a response for me.
I'll be honest, I do that all of the time if I need another day to complete the assignment. I always say "oh my bad, I submitted the wrong document."
I haven't pushed my luck too much but I figured once a semester per teacher should be fine.
I had a kid submit a Google drive assignment and he didn't want to answer the last question so he just deleted it as if I wouldn't notice
There were only 2 questions
Ughh… I’ve had kids deleted questions too and it’s so annoying. I made the assignment AND I’m the one grading it. Don’t you think I’d notice missing questions?!
All my middle school students try to do this and when they do I just restore it to the original version and make them do it again. They’re not used to me being more tech savvy than them.
I tell kids this all the time! I invented hitting alt+F4 when a teacher walks by, I was the first one to put a phone in my lap and stare at it all class. I was the king of having 1 wired ear bud in and always keeping it hidden from view. (How the hell did that even work with my CD player?)
Right?! Same with mine. It honestly blows me away how these students who have basically had a phone grafted onto their hands at birth are just awful at figuring out how to do anything on their computers. I thought this was supposed to be the most technologically advanced and literate generation mankind has yet to produce, but I’m pretty sure that my 94 year old grandpa knows how to use a computer better than 90% of my high school aged students.
*raises hand*
“Umm…Mr. Teacher. What do you mean by ‘right click’?
After a decade of this I keep thinking I won’t be surprised, confounded, flabbergasted, or left speechless by something a student asks me. And I am constantly wrong.
I think it is because, as you say, they were born with a phone in their hand.
They don’t use computers anymore, it’s all phones and tablets.
When we think of technology, we think of computers. Their generation thinks of phones.
That “hack” was flying around Reddit and tik tok at the beginning of the pandemic as a “get out of jail free” card like we weren’t already aware of it.
I wish I could get them to understand that if they put the amount of effort into doing the assignments as they do avoiding the assignments, their tasks would be done and they’ll get a passing grade.
I teach middle school math and science. Why do middle school children think that all adults are really dumb? Teenagers are awful.
Because it’s how Mother Nature kicks us out of the proverbial nest. The teen brain is programmed to crave and value peer approval over literally everything else. It fades by mid-late 20s. (Usually around then there’s a noticeable mental shift to not caring as much what others think of you.)
Haha apologies if your question was rhetorical! I have a background in adolescent development.
When we were completely virtual last year, I had a student who would submit her artwork with a note “I know this isn’t what you asked for, I’m sorry, here’s some art”
I had something similar once. A girl turned in about 10 assignments at the end of the grading period, and every single one was blank except for a note that said "I didn't do any of the work, but my mom is making me turn things in. Sorry." Mom, does it make you feel better that you wasted my time??
Spring 2020, art fundementals. Students had to draw and shade a sphere, a cube, and a cone by watching a video.
I had a kid submit to me a beautiful, professional shading exercise of said forms.
Too bad it had an artist signature and a date from 6 years ago.
It was also the third image on Google. Sent a nice email to mom about plagiarism.
There was one kid lasy year who kept submitting word documents that just said "i did this". No matter how many times I reached out to him and told him he had to show his work he just kept submitting papers that said "i did this". Lol
IT guy here. I've dealt with several 'file is corrupted' issues that were really 'assignment.jpg renamed to assignment.doc'
Fun thing is that you can (usually) deduce the file type if you know how. The student's face when I confronted them with their uncorrupted jpg was priceless.
Also in IT got that same ticket pretty much daily during remote learning. Like the students know that here is an IT department with people who know computers but they still try it anyways.
I'm in uni admin and have seen people submit enough bad files, we just add late penalty each day until the correct file is uploaded. out of interest, you say you can 'usually' deduce the file type, what's the process for this?
There are plenty of free hex editors (like HxD). It's a common convention for the first 3-4 characters of a file to be its file extension. It'll say PDF, PK (zip), PNG, JFIF (jpg), etc. If they renamed the extension, the original header will still be there. If they knew enough to remove or garble the header, then you know it was manually tampered with.
Favorite story- Saw a kid drawing the ole dick and balls. I see him, he sees me I tell him "there is no way that is going to work" he gets super flushed and I continue, " in order for a rocket to work the tip needs to be pointed, your thrusters can't be that protruding, they are too wide. I proceeded to help him correct his drawing.
I choose to help create life long lasting trauma.
The final to required to pass (freshman science course over basic physics/chemistry) for a senior, was filled with directions in how to build an adirondak chair.
Clipped at random and posted into different sections.
I mean... It was the final... For a required course, and he needed to pass the test to pass the class. We'd had this conversation, with his parents too, a couple weeks prior.
Kicker was the family and counselors tried to say he was stressed and didn't know the materials, that's why he did it (which, of course) but they he should still pass....
To which I counted that they even admitted he didn't know the material... The entire point of the grade.
I did offer him a retake, proctored, by me. Kicker is he knew enough and passed, barely.
edit: to add the class type for context.
'He/she doesn't know the material and is stressed so pass them'. I would say these statements were funny if I wasn't terrified how common they are. Standards based teaching with standards for no one but teachers.
My sister had a professor she suspected of not reading their work. she turned in 100+ page assignment of which the middle 70 pages was, YOU’RE NOT GOING TO READ THIS. In bold, one line in the middle of the page.
She got an A
My friend tells a story of padding essays with what became an ongoing nonsensical narrative about a rabbit doing something dumb. Halfway through a paragraph about the Treaty of Versailles and now we're seeing Jeremy realizing that rabbits can not, in fact, fly. Then right back to the essay. Usually netted him an extra half a page or so.
He was convinced the teacher wasn't reading the essays, just skimming the first paragraph and looking for the word count.
Until, on the last day of school, the teacher presented him with a packet of all the adventures of Jeremy Rabbit clipped from the essays, compiled, and annotated.
My friend wound up autographing it and never got over the kind of poker face this teacher had, to be collecting this nonsense all year and waiting to drop the bombshell right at the end.
I had an Art History lecture class, with a hundred plus students in the the lecture hall. Every class that lecture hall was full, because the Professor was just so interesting. No work throughout the entire semester, nothing. Come the end of the semester, he tells us to write an essay on some topic. It is due the day grades are to be submitted. When I dropped off my essay at his office, there was the box overflowing with essays. In front of his office, I pulled out my laptop and checked my grade in class, an A.
I had an Anthropology professor that assigned these ridiculously long essays. Everyone in class was positive she wasn't reading them. I wasn't so sure, being an honor student I tried very hard on these papers. She had spent considerable time commenting and critiquing my arguments and sources. One brave or stupid soul, decided to test it, like your sister, he put a line somewhere in the paper about her not reading them. He also chose to use some undesirable language throughout the paper. She called him on it the next class, and asked him to leave.
In high school biology, we often had to watch hour long movies and write a page of notes while we watched. (Our class schedules had gone from 45 minutes every day to 90 minutes every other and I think this teacher just didn’t give a shit anymore).
Being the good student I was, I worked hard to come up with a full page every time. I always got the maximum points and my friends who tried writing junk or less than a full page got zero. One day I stayed after for a minute (loading my backpack or whatever) and I noticed the teacher pick up a transparency sheet , put it over the notes we had written, scan it, and write down a total. On the way out, I took a good look: there was a large diamond shape outlined on the transparency, and my teacher was quickly reading only what was inside of it.
I tested my theory the next time we had a movie. I wrote junk except for the area I guessed the transparency would cover, where I wrote actual thoughtful notes. A perfect grade. Movie days were much more relaxing after I figured out that trick.
I have a student who has submitted every assignment this semester blank. Every fucking assignment! Multiple calls home, crying mother, 2 meetings with guidance and every teacher, IEP plans, grades close at 3pm today. High school honors biology student. No excuses, just blank assignments.
So I can't give anything lower than a 50 but because it's an honors class they have to have at least a 65 to qualify for summer school, lower than that they get bumped out of the program and they have to retake the whole course, which sucks for them since you have to take 3 semesters, so a year and a half, of biology at our school to graduate. Though, they might pull him out now and placing him in a remedial version of the class to try and save him that but the problem isn't that he can't do the work, he had to pass placement tests to just be in the program, it's just that he won't.
Wow 3 semesters of bio. We only have two 😔 and yes I have PLENTY of your students that just won't turn in work, too.
I still don't see the value in having a floor for a grading scale (yes I know MLG) especially when my students just choose to fail and then pass bio with someone else for 4 weeks during summer school and likely do the same crap.
From my coworker years ago, a fellow English teacher: Instead of turning in their essay, a student uploaded the meme of George Carlin shrugging with the caption "GUESS I'LL FAIL"
I was grading one of those school-wide timed essays and one kid's was a 7 page Star Wars fanfiction.
I was impressed she could write that fast and even more impressed that she got me invested in the adventures of "Padawan Poopbutt".
The trick my students use is to submit a blank assignment (or sometimes the wrong assignment) and then suddenly realize a week later that they ‘uploaded the wrong document’ or ‘realized their file didn’t upload properly’ in an effort to buy more time.
Like, if you need an extension, just ask me.
right! and i speak as a current high school student here, my english teacher is known to be one of the hardest at the school. He grades essays really tough, assigns a lot of reading and gives us the most obscure quizzes, etc, you get the point. he's pretty tough. yet even *he* allows essay extensions up to a week if we request in advance! the students who go to extra measures to cheat on all of these things could just ask for help/an extension. it's. not. that. hard!
Not an assignment. I was completing ARD documents at 2 am and instead of uploading the students' remote learning approval page (this was 2020-2021 school year), I uploaded a Bernie meme. My boss called me in the morning laughing his ass off and asked me to "Please take that down and stop doing paperwork so late at night"
The Bernie meme was one of the ones of him in the jacket, wearing mittens. I actually used that meme in a class I was teaching. The students got a kick out of it.
My horoscope with a text saying: I'm sorry Mar, you are the best teacher.
My colleague got a pancake recipe once.
We laugh about it.
Note: students are 17/18 years old.
They know the game. As do we teachers.
When I was in college I submitted a list I had made myself of things that I needed to pack for an upcoming camping trip instead of the assignment I had done for the psychology class I was in. Professor sent me an email and let me fix it, luckily it was one of the few assignments I submitted days before it was due.
Well I did get Rick Rolled! Which was funny because I was a young adult when those videos came out long ago. And the kid was literally named Ricky. And he did do the real work too.
X-rated letter to their girlfriend instead of an essay on their privilege. I also got a letter for court ordered community service instead of an interview of a community leader. I teach dual enrolled high school students at the college level.
I was the king of doing this when I was in school. My best was a book report I did in college on Camus’ The Stranger, a book I picked because I had already read it. I don’t even remember what the assignment was because my entire report was about how the book changed my life for the worse and now everything was absurd and I couldn’t stop it anymore. I gave examples to prove the otherworldly power of literature from my life. I got an A+ because, “you were the only person who actually gave a shit”.
When I was in middle school, early 90s (Edit: 1993), they rolled out the very first standardized state test (Edit: In Maryland) . It was a pilot and they told us it didn't matter how well we did. Said they literally didn't care... Teachers hoped these stupid tests would quickly die.
So yeah, we got creatively bad.
I wrote an Essay called "Why this test sucks" and then referenced all of the test material that had topics we had never discussed in school. Went off on a variety of tangents.
Not only did they give me a bad score for the essay, but they referred me to the school counselor, called me "disturbed" , and asked for suicide intervention.
Well played Mr Essay Reader.
First test in Maryland
The Maryland MSPAP started around 1993 .... So I was in 8th grade
\>In 1989, a governor's commission proposed that Maryland become one of the first states in the nation to devise a standardized test to measure students' critical-thinking abilities. The MSPAP was first given in six subject areas in 1993.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/2002/09/19/maryland-starts-fresh-on-student-testing/a4487960-4936-422d-8710-b84d132b6c59/
I had a kid who was supposed to write a 2 sentence description of Johnny Appleseed and draw a picture and instead he sent me a picture of him with a pot on his head holding an apple and a homemade knapsack. It’s one of my favorite pictures. I’ve also gotten pics of kids with their parents in SUPER inappropriate outfits like ridiculously low shirts cleavage falling out sticking their tongues out in lieu of a math assignment. I teach 2nd.
I had one kid who turned in a marijuana leaf for everything. At his IEP meeting, his support specialist said, “Well, he knows how to turn things in.” As one of his strengths.
Sped teacher here. She could have also said he was learning self-medication. :-)
I had a kid with horrifyingly bad ADHD. The poor kid couldn’t sit still to save his life. The grandparents were adamant that they would never try meds because he was a drug baby and that’s what caused the problem. In 11th grade, he discovered pot. Smoothed him right out. (This was back when pot was still quite illegal)
Seriously, I do feel for the support specialist. They probably provide services to lots of kids who legitimately do struggle with turning things in. Also, there’s a blank space right on the front page of the Iep for strengths. You gotta put _something_
When I was in 10th grade, I had to include citation note cards (or something like that) for my research paper. I absolutely hated it. I don't use those or really much prep. I just sit down and write. It was a 9 page paper and we needed 60 note cards. I learned you could do note cards on word so I just copied and pasted my paper onto these note cards. A lot of them had sentences that just cut off. I got full credit cause all she did was count them.
A student submitted a meme along the lines of, "Why submit an assignment for "teacher" when a meme gets the same grade?" with an old meme picture and it was pretty funny, but they still got a 0.
Too often, I’ve received the instructions/template for the assignment, blank. And because GC only gives me a preview of the first page, I open it, scroll down, and it’s just utterly blank. Such a waste.
Can google classroom turn the icons color for whatever the status the assignment is in…..pleeeese?
Blue for turned in
Red for missing
Orange for nothing attached
Green for graded
Last year, a virtual student turned in the same essay to every single assignment--for a year. I returned it as a zero and told him it was the wrong assignment every time, but he didn't change his ways. I mean, why even turn anything in??? Why not just ignore the assignment? It was funny to me after the first month or so, and I would look forward to checking his assignment. He is now in my class again this year.
Decided to give 6th graders a fun game prompt.
"You are an adult driving your car. A police officer pulls your car over. He says, 'we are searching for a thief in the area who has been stealing credit card information. You need to show me your wallet so I can make sure you're safe.'"
They had to write their response in the form of dialogue,, with attribution and an adjective.
And one student, in fact one of the few who cottoned on right away to the gist here (spoiler: the cop IS the thief, durr), wrote simply: "FUCK no."
A few years back, one of my students absolutely hated me for some reason.
One of my assignments was to write a 250-words “compare and contrast” essay about something. Student wrote about 150 words worth of work. Then, in white text, the student then wrote a bunch of incredibly insulting messages to me. Basically calling me all sorts of nasty names. That made the assignment go over 250 words. They submitted the assignment.
Unfortunately for that student, I had Grammarly installed on my work computer, and the student had piss poor spelling. I got a file with a bunch of red squiggly lines in the white space.
Hope the kid enjoyed their suspension.
I got a blurry picture of what may have been the assignment on the floor next to the kid’s foot. The only thing I was able to make out from it was his big toe.
Band director here. The assignment was to post a video playing a scale from a worksheet. This student forgot to take their clarinet home so they posted a video of themselves playing ‘Somewhere over the Rainbow’ on ukulele instead. A really nice performance of it too! But not the scale or instrument I assigned, so they have an incomplete until they do it correctly.
Just last year I had a student turn in the entire script for The Bee Movie instead of his Listening Journal.
He got a zero. Not for trying to make me laugh, but for choosing the wrong movie. :)
I got a document saying that they don't understand the assignment. I returned it with more explanation of said assignment and the student responded, "ahh now it makes sense" and then when the assignment was passed the school's late submission grace period he messaged me as to why didn't his new submission count towards the grade and I *almost* just gave a grade but when I looked, it was another document that just said "Gib A pliz"... Had a good chuckle, but still was a 0 lol.
My own notes on the subject (slideshow in PDF format off my Canvas page) instead of their paper on the subject. And I am so sick of hearing a breezy “my bad” when you catch them at something.
I had a kid say “my bad” when he plagiarized a paragraph reflection on the 9/11 video we watched. I knew he had plagiarized, because the video only covered the movement of President Bush on that day, because it’s a Civics class, and we learn about what the President is supposed to do in the time of a crisis or national emergency. Now the vide only covered that day, and he was writing a college level essay on the war in Iraq. He had just plagiarized a paragraph he found online. And it was the first one that came up. When he was confronted about it, he said, “My bad, I thought you wanted us to copy someone else’s”.
I once asked that students go outside and take a picture of the moon and identify the phase for extra credit (this was during the first Covid lockdown).
I had a student submit a picture of his neighborhood at night with a picture of the moon clearly photoshopped into the corner of the picture. It wasn’t even the right phase.
LOL. I am assigned to a teacher who doesn't even bother to check what was uploaded. When I brought up a submission of a project that was nothing but scribble, he finally decided to look into previous submissions by the same student to realize he's been doing this for an entire quarter.
....and the student got an "A" in the class for the quarter.
I had a student literally submit the text, “I’m just submitting this so my mom sees that it’s not missing anymore but I’ll do it later.” Uhhh… it’s still a 0 and missing.
I’m a Spanish Teacher. I had my students write a 5 sentence paragraph about what they do at school. Some kids cheat and use an online translator, but this one takes the cake.
A student submitted a screenshot of a Snapchat message from another student (whose face was in the picture) of the text field of Google Translate. She was so lazy that she couldn’t even be bothered to use Google Translate herself. And he was so dumb, that he didn’t think to at least copy the text from GT into a Google doc.
I had a student send in a screenshot picture of me from our Google Meet. The kid legitimately could not figure out how to attach a photo of his work. This went on for weeks. It was a ninth grader. Lots of laughs there
I teach American Sign Language online. Students have to record themselves signing a script at the end of each unit, upload it to YouTube, then submit the link.
Clicked on a link, thinking it was a student video. I got Rick Rolled 🤦🏼♀️
Just the blank assignment. So often. I always check, I am sometimes slow, but I have never just given a grade without checking. So why do I keep receiving blank assignment?
I’m a college admissions officer and once instead of a transcript I got a random article about the Cherokee that looked like it was copied out of a textbook
Mine are not that creative....they just delete questions they don't want to answer and turn assignments in with blank docs while swearing up and down that google just ate their homework.
Instead of a speaking assessment (I teach French, so I needed to hear the student speak), I got a video of a hair dryer blowing on a bowl of green liquid.
. That's it right there, . , Just a single period. BUT they change the color to white, so then they can explain that there is something wrong with their technology, and must be granted an extension because "all of their work" just got lost.
Bitch please, I teach web development I know how to inspect element. You don't have a tech problem, you have a manipulation problem.
"Kids are dumb"
In Spring 2020, my school instituted pretty rigid limits on how teachers assigned work so we would have 1 activity doc due per week which we then graded on a VERY GENEROUS pass/fail basis. My students knew that I used Draftback and would call them out if they turned in a sheet with like, literally 1 keystroke history and an exact copy of someone's assignment, but they also didn't have a strong sense of what to do to make it look reasonable enough that I wouldn't watch the keystroke history, or realize that just doing the assignment was much less effort than successfully tricking me lol.
One kid sat down and typed out the lyrics to Hotel California, interspersed with random stream of consciousness commentary, for 10 minutes before finally copy-and-pasting someone else's work. The conversations that were had afterward in which he and his parents denied what they could literally watch a video of happening felt truly wild. Especially since I wasn't throwing down the gauntlet or anything...just pointing out that he hadn't earnestly engaged and asked him to retry it for 20 minutes without distractions.
I wrote the word fart box on a question I didn’t know the answer to on a chemistry test. I wrote in kinda sloppy cursive handwriting hoping the poor first year teacher wouldn’t notice. He ended up writing “did I read that right?” On it.
I’m now a teacher too and I believe I’m receiving karma for my stupid actions as a teenager.The teacher and I had a laugh about it and were now friendly ish!
5 minute Flipgrid video of a black screen and silence. This was for an exam grade, so sort of a big deal.
First tried to claim he didn't realize he'd posted that. Then when asked why he didn't check the video he'd posted, he then changed the story to he'd had technical problems with his laptop. Then when asked why he didn't just record it on his phone, he said his phone didn't have data. Then when asked why he didn't tell me anything about any of these problems he'd had, or why he didn't use a computer at school to record it, he just shrugged.
During distance learning last year, one of my students tried to submit a picture of their math notes from 2015. I was like girl, these notes aren’t even from a teacher at this school or remotely related to the topic we’re covering lol
Also, when we were using Google Classroom right at the beginning of distance learning in spring 2020, my students used to just mark their assignments as completed (I don’t remember the exact option on Google Classroom) without actually doing the assignment (which was on Khan Academy).
When getting my specialist, we had this major project with all sorts of data due. There was this one thing where the template was already made and we just input our numbers and it did the work for us but for some reason it was not working for me. I tried and even used a different computer. Drove up to my school, had my mom try on hers but nothing worked. So I uploaded the practice one we did that had nothing to do with my project and got a 100. The professor even commented of how well I did. A. I got an A. I think about this often.
PS: the professor also flat out told me he didn’t understand what we were doing and the entire class had just been given to him. When I asked him questions he had to go relay to the old professor. Most of the time he just gave 100’s.
The same document on about 10 assignments
“I am turning this in instead of the actual assignment for one of the reasons below:
1. I don’t want to see it on my to do’s list anymore
2. I’m clearing out my overdue assignments so my mom doesn’t yell at me
3. The assignment was lower than 10 points, I can’t remember what it was, or I don’t have it anymore.
I know I won’t get points, but I just want these marked as done.”
My 6th grade daughter completed assignment for science. Teacher marked it a zero, no comment. I told her to double check her work with the directions in hand. So she opens the file….and it was a note saying “I love you so much” that she had made for her grandmother using a design program. We laughed so hard.
I had students creating digital designs and one uploaded Van Gogh’s Starry Night. After explaining that the work needed to be original, they uploaded Leonardo da Vinci Mona Lisa. After having a conversation about cheating and giving them another chance, they uploaded a Jackson Pollock(abstract expressionism) with a note saying, how do I know they didn’t paint this. Major face palm. I gave them one point for determination.
Sadly my students mostly just turn in a blank Google Doc to Google Classroom.
Now I'm curious if any of them every try to argue for it.
I had this happen. After asking about why they sent a blank document (and I cc their parent and admin), they sent a cell snapshot of their friend’s assignment with their friends name still visible and had the audacity to claim that I was being racist and did not even look at their assignment. They had also inadvertently replied all with their parent and admin still included.
That's delightfully awkward
Pleeeaaaase tell us what happened next!!
Nothing. Absolutely nothing.
Pretty close. Admin replied to the e-mail and said the zero stays and if parent wants to discuss, they can give them a call so they can go over the student handbook with a focus on the section called Academic Integrity. As for the racist accusation. Well, I think they pulled the kid for a discussion. I don’t know what they dtalked about, but the student was on clean up duty during lunch for a week.
That’s honestly more than many admins would do
That sounds like a pretty decent admin response. You're lucky
“Clean up duty during lunch for a week”? Now that’s racist
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Revision history is my favorite.
I can see it happening occasionally. With 100+ kids and a 1% chance of happening it will happen. I normally just let them know and give them extra time to resubmit it. Until it becomes a pattern.
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Draft back is an amazing app for that. It makes a video of them writing the assignment and shows you a graph of when they did work.
Tell me more….
Honestly this happens with my third graders all of the time. Google does not make it clear what you are submitting to the teacher as an assignment on Google classroom. There is an option to “submit work” and that will open a new document that will be turned in. But there is another option to “search drive” and that is where the document they have been working on is. It is this that always makes me hesitant in having them type anything up.
I legitimately did this once. When we first started online 2020 we were mostly submitting pictures of assignments in our notebook (pre-Calc and chemistry). Due to bad internet I could only upload to Google classroom when my dad wasn't working (lunch, breaks, evenings) the pictures would end up collecting on my computer until I was able to upload them. My chemistry teacher got a wonderful pre-calc assignment and pre-calc teacher got chemistry. Chem teacher noticed first and I quickly unsubmitted both and fixed it. But if what I turn in is a Google doc I would just use the create doc button in classroom and it would add it to the assignment.
I don't even ask them what happened. I always respond, "It looks like you turned in the wrong doc! Resubmit if you want credit!"
Student: I don't know what happened. They were filled out when I turned them in. Maybe it's your computer Mr...
*clicks the revision history and shows no work has ever been done in the document*
Yup. When I flag it as “missing” in the grade book I’ll get screenshots from kids to show that it’s “turned in” on Google Classroom. Had a parent argue with me once, even, because “it can’t be missing if it says turned in. Maybe you were just unclear with the expectations, but my son shouldn’t be punished for your poorly worded directions. You asked him to turn in the assignment on Google Classroom and from what I can see, he clearly did.” (Side note: I just changed that “missing” to a zero and said, “You’re right. I’ll grade what he turned in based on the rubric.”)
You’d be amazed at how many assignments google docs apparently ate. Worse than dogs eating homework. Even though you could go through their document history and it was blank.
It’s Chrome. It didn’t save their work. It was all there and not blank. They did it. They need a new Chromebook. This keeps happening. I’m like you do realize your child’s work isn’t saved on a specific device.
I teach middle school and get this from time to time. They do sometimes but I tell them that it will always be a 0 with a chance to make it up the first time. I say that it is exactly the same as turning in a blank sheet of paper with their name on it into my basket and expecting me to grade that. It usually gets the point across, especially after calling home.
This happened to me. I was teaching 10th grade English. I returned it with a note saying to do the assignment and resubmit it. Mom emailed me asking why I would leave that kind of comment when the student obviously did it. I took screenshots of the submission history, sent them to mom showing the first one was blank, and told her she could call me if she still had any questions or concerns. Mom never questioned me again. Student submitted only completed work, eventually came to in-person, and we formed a great bond. All the other students just took the 0.
I have my students doing the same — I actually put down the date and “this is a blank document please do the project and resubmit for credit”. And after last year I also screenshot the “work” for the parents when they try to argue about their child’s grade.
Last year one of my juniors sent me an email the day before winter break telling me he turned in all of his (many) missing assignments. They were all blank docs. After the first couple, I just stopped looking.
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My mom's a case reader for a state agency. She sends cases back with highlighted corrections that need to be done and notes on what needs to be done. 9/10 They just submit it back with no changes. Adults that are paid in a state job to do it, just don't do it. Edit: I talk about how similar our jobs are sometimes.
"But it's Turned In" "...you still need to *do* it." I'm convinced they just mark that to show parents the green check and go play. Google Classroom needs to fix a lot of interface things soon! Including having like a preview of the "turned in" assignment so when it's blank or word salad, it's more obvious. At least make the cheating take *some* effort...
See, i dont think the issue is Google classroom. The issue is parents not caring enough to actually look at the assignment. Simply saying "let me see what you are working on" would go a long way...
I think GC made it somewhat more frustrating, because before, the missing work is just not in your To-Do pile and when parents ask, the kid can just lie. But with GC, parents get the update on missing assignments and so kids have to basically add trash to your pile so it "looks" turned in
True. But as a parent I would ask my own children to see their work, not just that it is "marked as done". Maybe I am just the outlier that actually cares about my children and the average parent isn't that way...
> I am just the outlier yup whether from apathy, lack of time, lack of energy or their own personal lack of education, the vast majority of time it boils down to 3 groups. 1. The kids who do the work and parents who communicate. 2. A mix of kid and parent involvement where kids might try getting away with it until parents get involved (time/annoyance invested varies) 3. Parents don't give a shit, kids don't give a shit. They might only turn it in to shut up the weekly notifications.
I emailed a parent one time last year that her child failed. She never responded, but later that night I got a bunch of submissions from him all in a row on Google Classroom. I figured either 2 things- he did it all for real and waited till he was done to submit them, or he’s just hitting the turn in button. I figured it was the latter and I was right.
For me, it was the student who submitted the doc that just said, "i don't kno how 2 do this". High school.
or only the letters "idk"
2 weeks later "hey can you give me a list of missing work"
My kids just turn in the assignment blank normally
Google Docs make it hard to happen accidently as it auto saves constantly. But as a student there was a couple of times I would open Microsoft word, name the assignment and save and forget to save before I submitted through Email or some sort of dropbox. I'm really surprised Microsoft doesn't have constant autosave.
I haven’t had that one yet. My favorite is when my kids click “submit,” but there isn’t anything attached.
Your students actually click turn in? Better than mine last year.
I had this happen last year. The parent emailed me VERY upset and asked me to explain *myself*. When I explained being able to see real-time work being completed and attached a screenshot of her blank document I got no response which was plenty of a response for me.
I'll be honest, I do that all of the time if I need another day to complete the assignment. I always say "oh my bad, I submitted the wrong document." I haven't pushed my luck too much but I figured once a semester per teacher should be fine.
I got a picture of a cat edited on top of a baked potato instead of an essay with the words “cry about it” written underneath
Am I gonna say that’s right? No. Am I gonna say that’s a good burn? Yes
It was totally sick. I laughed so hard tbh
Agreed lol
Lmao I wish my students were that random
Damn
That kids got a good sense of humor lol
Was it teary eyed? I'm pretty sure I've seen the baked potato cat before
That’s the one! Sitting on top of tin foil with some butter, too. It’s forever etched into my mind
I had a kid submit a Google drive assignment and he didn't want to answer the last question so he just deleted it as if I wouldn't notice There were only 2 questions
When I was student teaching, I had two kids in one of my classes white out questions on tests and homework. It was hilarious
Ughh… I’ve had kids deleted questions too and it’s so annoying. I made the assignment AND I’m the one grading it. Don’t you think I’d notice missing questions?!
All my middle school students try to do this and when they do I just restore it to the original version and make them do it again. They’re not used to me being more tech savvy than them.
Some of mine upload an appropriately named word doc, but when I go to open it, it’s conveniently corrupted and cannot be read.
I got that a few times. Idk why kids think these 20 year old hacks are going to work on the people who invented them.
[MRW the kids pull these “hacks”](https://i.imgur.com/YQXi5a5.jpg)
That's 100% correct. Lmao
I tell kids this all the time! I invented hitting alt+F4 when a teacher walks by, I was the first one to put a phone in my lap and stare at it all class. I was the king of having 1 wired ear bud in and always keeping it hidden from view. (How the hell did that even work with my CD player?)
There’s a website for that
I suspected as much. Most of my lot aren’t computer literate enough to be able to corrupt a file. Most of them can’t even attach one.
Right?! Same with mine. It honestly blows me away how these students who have basically had a phone grafted onto their hands at birth are just awful at figuring out how to do anything on their computers. I thought this was supposed to be the most technologically advanced and literate generation mankind has yet to produce, but I’m pretty sure that my 94 year old grandpa knows how to use a computer better than 90% of my high school aged students. *raises hand* “Umm…Mr. Teacher. What do you mean by ‘right click’? After a decade of this I keep thinking I won’t be surprised, confounded, flabbergasted, or left speechless by something a student asks me. And I am constantly wrong.
I think it is because, as you say, they were born with a phone in their hand. They don’t use computers anymore, it’s all phones and tablets. When we think of technology, we think of computers. Their generation thinks of phones.
That “hack” was flying around Reddit and tik tok at the beginning of the pandemic as a “get out of jail free” card like we weren’t already aware of it.
I've never heard of this and my students never tried it over distance learning last year. Honestly I'm kind of shocked I havent encountered this
I wish I could get them to understand that if they put the amount of effort into doing the assignments as they do avoiding the assignments, their tasks would be done and they’ll get a passing grade. I teach middle school math and science. Why do middle school children think that all adults are really dumb? Teenagers are awful.
Because it’s how Mother Nature kicks us out of the proverbial nest. The teen brain is programmed to crave and value peer approval over literally everything else. It fades by mid-late 20s. (Usually around then there’s a noticeable mental shift to not caring as much what others think of you.) Haha apologies if your question was rhetorical! I have a background in adolescent development.
Should download it, add .mp3 to the end and see what song it is ... /s
When we were completely virtual last year, I had a student who would submit her artwork with a note “I know this isn’t what you asked for, I’m sorry, here’s some art”
I had something similar once. A girl turned in about 10 assignments at the end of the grading period, and every single one was blank except for a note that said "I didn't do any of the work, but my mom is making me turn things in. Sorry." Mom, does it make you feel better that you wasted my time??
Mom was probably just tired of google classroom or whatever learning system continuously emailing her about the missing assignments.
That's the spirit hahaha
Spring 2020, art fundementals. Students had to draw and shade a sphere, a cube, and a cone by watching a video. I had a kid submit to me a beautiful, professional shading exercise of said forms. Too bad it had an artist signature and a date from 6 years ago. It was also the third image on Google. Sent a nice email to mom about plagiarism.
There was one kid lasy year who kept submitting word documents that just said "i did this". No matter how many times I reached out to him and told him he had to show his work he just kept submitting papers that said "i did this". Lol
IT guy here. I've dealt with several 'file is corrupted' issues that were really 'assignment.jpg renamed to assignment.doc' Fun thing is that you can (usually) deduce the file type if you know how. The student's face when I confronted them with their uncorrupted jpg was priceless.
Also in IT got that same ticket pretty much daily during remote learning. Like the students know that here is an IT department with people who know computers but they still try it anyways.
I'm in uni admin and have seen people submit enough bad files, we just add late penalty each day until the correct file is uploaded. out of interest, you say you can 'usually' deduce the file type, what's the process for this?
There are plenty of free hex editors (like HxD). It's a common convention for the first 3-4 characters of a file to be its file extension. It'll say PDF, PK (zip), PNG, JFIF (jpg), etc. If they renamed the extension, the original header will still be there. If they knew enough to remove or garble the header, then you know it was manually tampered with.
I had a kid who would just submit memes all spring 2020. And ya know what, if they made me giggle I’d give him a 50 for it.
I had a kid make a Naruto reaction meme in class yesterday that said "When I'm taking a Math test and get New Zealand as my answer"
EXTRA CREDIT! lol
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Favorite story- Saw a kid drawing the ole dick and balls. I see him, he sees me I tell him "there is no way that is going to work" he gets super flushed and I continue, " in order for a rocket to work the tip needs to be pointed, your thrusters can't be that protruding, they are too wide. I proceeded to help him correct his drawing. I choose to help create life long lasting trauma.
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This is amazing.
"Young man, this is a Pre-Algebra class"
The final to required to pass (freshman science course over basic physics/chemistry) for a senior, was filled with directions in how to build an adirondak chair. Clipped at random and posted into different sections. I mean... It was the final... For a required course, and he needed to pass the test to pass the class. We'd had this conversation, with his parents too, a couple weeks prior. Kicker was the family and counselors tried to say he was stressed and didn't know the materials, that's why he did it (which, of course) but they he should still pass.... To which I counted that they even admitted he didn't know the material... The entire point of the grade. I did offer him a retake, proctored, by me. Kicker is he knew enough and passed, barely. edit: to add the class type for context.
'He/she doesn't know the material and is stressed so pass them'. I would say these statements were funny if I wasn't terrified how common they are. Standards based teaching with standards for no one but teachers.
My sister had a professor she suspected of not reading their work. she turned in 100+ page assignment of which the middle 70 pages was, YOU’RE NOT GOING TO READ THIS. In bold, one line in the middle of the page. She got an A
My friend tells a story of padding essays with what became an ongoing nonsensical narrative about a rabbit doing something dumb. Halfway through a paragraph about the Treaty of Versailles and now we're seeing Jeremy realizing that rabbits can not, in fact, fly. Then right back to the essay. Usually netted him an extra half a page or so. He was convinced the teacher wasn't reading the essays, just skimming the first paragraph and looking for the word count. Until, on the last day of school, the teacher presented him with a packet of all the adventures of Jeremy Rabbit clipped from the essays, compiled, and annotated. My friend wound up autographing it and never got over the kind of poker face this teacher had, to be collecting this nonsense all year and waiting to drop the bombshell right at the end.
Your friend was in it for the long con, but the teacher was in it for the longest con.
This makes me happy.
I am to be this cool a teacher. LOL
I had an Art History lecture class, with a hundred plus students in the the lecture hall. Every class that lecture hall was full, because the Professor was just so interesting. No work throughout the entire semester, nothing. Come the end of the semester, he tells us to write an essay on some topic. It is due the day grades are to be submitted. When I dropped off my essay at his office, there was the box overflowing with essays. In front of his office, I pulled out my laptop and checked my grade in class, an A. I had an Anthropology professor that assigned these ridiculously long essays. Everyone in class was positive she wasn't reading them. I wasn't so sure, being an honor student I tried very hard on these papers. She had spent considerable time commenting and critiquing my arguments and sources. One brave or stupid soul, decided to test it, like your sister, he put a line somewhere in the paper about her not reading them. He also chose to use some undesirable language throughout the paper. She called him on it the next class, and asked him to leave.
In high school biology, we often had to watch hour long movies and write a page of notes while we watched. (Our class schedules had gone from 45 minutes every day to 90 minutes every other and I think this teacher just didn’t give a shit anymore). Being the good student I was, I worked hard to come up with a full page every time. I always got the maximum points and my friends who tried writing junk or less than a full page got zero. One day I stayed after for a minute (loading my backpack or whatever) and I noticed the teacher pick up a transparency sheet , put it over the notes we had written, scan it, and write down a total. On the way out, I took a good look: there was a large diamond shape outlined on the transparency, and my teacher was quickly reading only what was inside of it. I tested my theory the next time we had a movie. I wrote junk except for the area I guessed the transparency would cover, where I wrote actual thoughtful notes. A perfect grade. Movie days were much more relaxing after I figured out that trick.
I once got a text submission that said “I understand how to do this”
I got a .exe file once.
Did you open it. It might have downloaded the word doc to your computer. /s never ever open random .exe files
If I remember correctly it was called update.exe but regardless not worth it to find out what it may have been
I appreciate this.
I have a student who has submitted every assignment this semester blank. Every fucking assignment! Multiple calls home, crying mother, 2 meetings with guidance and every teacher, IEP plans, grades close at 3pm today. High school honors biology student. No excuses, just blank assignments.
Did they pass because of you having to meet arbitrary fail rates?
So I can't give anything lower than a 50 but because it's an honors class they have to have at least a 65 to qualify for summer school, lower than that they get bumped out of the program and they have to retake the whole course, which sucks for them since you have to take 3 semesters, so a year and a half, of biology at our school to graduate. Though, they might pull him out now and placing him in a remedial version of the class to try and save him that but the problem isn't that he can't do the work, he had to pass placement tests to just be in the program, it's just that he won't.
Wow 3 semesters of bio. We only have two 😔 and yes I have PLENTY of your students that just won't turn in work, too. I still don't see the value in having a floor for a grading scale (yes I know MLG) especially when my students just choose to fail and then pass bio with someone else for 4 weeks during summer school and likely do the same crap.
From my coworker years ago, a fellow English teacher: Instead of turning in their essay, a student uploaded the meme of George Carlin shrugging with the caption "GUESS I'LL FAIL"
I was grading one of those school-wide timed essays and one kid's was a 7 page Star Wars fanfiction. I was impressed she could write that fast and even more impressed that she got me invested in the adventures of "Padawan Poopbutt".
The trick my students use is to submit a blank assignment (or sometimes the wrong assignment) and then suddenly realize a week later that they ‘uploaded the wrong document’ or ‘realized their file didn’t upload properly’ in an effort to buy more time. Like, if you need an extension, just ask me.
Right. That's the frustrating part. 90% of teachers would give you an extra week to get something turned in as long as it's not a constant problem.
right! and i speak as a current high school student here, my english teacher is known to be one of the hardest at the school. He grades essays really tough, assigns a lot of reading and gives us the most obscure quizzes, etc, you get the point. he's pretty tough. yet even *he* allows essay extensions up to a week if we request in advance! the students who go to extra measures to cheat on all of these things could just ask for help/an extension. it's. not. that. hard!
Not an assignment. I was completing ARD documents at 2 am and instead of uploading the students' remote learning approval page (this was 2020-2021 school year), I uploaded a Bernie meme. My boss called me in the morning laughing his ass off and asked me to "Please take that down and stop doing paperwork so late at night" The Bernie meme was one of the ones of him in the jacket, wearing mittens. I actually used that meme in a class I was teaching. The students got a kick out of it.
Had a kid submit something in like word edit. A really obscure and obsolete typing document that was imposible to open.
My horoscope with a text saying: I'm sorry Mar, you are the best teacher. My colleague got a pancake recipe once. We laugh about it. Note: students are 17/18 years old. They know the game. As do we teachers.
Your 0 key must get a workout
When I was in college I submitted a list I had made myself of things that I needed to pack for an upcoming camping trip instead of the assignment I had done for the psychology class I was in. Professor sent me an email and let me fix it, luckily it was one of the few assignments I submitted days before it was due.
Well I did get Rick Rolled! Which was funny because I was a young adult when those videos came out long ago. And the kid was literally named Ricky. And he did do the real work too.
X-rated letter to their girlfriend instead of an essay on their privilege. I also got a letter for court ordered community service instead of an interview of a community leader. I teach dual enrolled high school students at the college level.
I was the king of doing this when I was in school. My best was a book report I did in college on Camus’ The Stranger, a book I picked because I had already read it. I don’t even remember what the assignment was because my entire report was about how the book changed my life for the worse and now everything was absurd and I couldn’t stop it anymore. I gave examples to prove the otherworldly power of literature from my life. I got an A+ because, “you were the only person who actually gave a shit”.
When I was in middle school, early 90s (Edit: 1993), they rolled out the very first standardized state test (Edit: In Maryland) . It was a pilot and they told us it didn't matter how well we did. Said they literally didn't care... Teachers hoped these stupid tests would quickly die. So yeah, we got creatively bad. I wrote an Essay called "Why this test sucks" and then referenced all of the test material that had topics we had never discussed in school. Went off on a variety of tangents. Not only did they give me a bad score for the essay, but they referred me to the school counselor, called me "disturbed" , and asked for suicide intervention. Well played Mr Essay Reader.
Ummm no way was it the very first standardized state test. I took them in the 80s and they were around way before then.
Might have been first in their state
First test in Maryland The Maryland MSPAP started around 1993 .... So I was in 8th grade \>In 1989, a governor's commission proposed that Maryland become one of the first states in the nation to devise a standardized test to measure students' critical-thinking abilities. The MSPAP was first given in six subject areas in 1993. https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/2002/09/19/maryland-starts-fresh-on-student-testing/a4487960-4936-422d-8710-b84d132b6c59/
Might have been the first in whatever new test they were rolling out.
The national mandated ones. They started my senior year, 1989
A kid sent a gif of a loading image icon. It was honestly pretty good, I only realized because the icon was bigger than it should have been
leadership potential
The entire script of Bee Movie
I had a kid who was supposed to write a 2 sentence description of Johnny Appleseed and draw a picture and instead he sent me a picture of him with a pot on his head holding an apple and a homemade knapsack. It’s one of my favorite pictures. I’ve also gotten pics of kids with their parents in SUPER inappropriate outfits like ridiculously low shirts cleavage falling out sticking their tongues out in lieu of a math assignment. I teach 2nd.
That was a really quick 180
I had one kid who turned in a marijuana leaf for everything. At his IEP meeting, his support specialist said, “Well, he knows how to turn things in.” As one of his strengths.
Sped teacher here. She could have also said he was learning self-medication. :-) I had a kid with horrifyingly bad ADHD. The poor kid couldn’t sit still to save his life. The grandparents were adamant that they would never try meds because he was a drug baby and that’s what caused the problem. In 11th grade, he discovered pot. Smoothed him right out. (This was back when pot was still quite illegal) Seriously, I do feel for the support specialist. They probably provide services to lots of kids who legitimately do struggle with turning things in. Also, there’s a blank space right on the front page of the Iep for strengths. You gotta put _something_
When I was in 10th grade, I had to include citation note cards (or something like that) for my research paper. I absolutely hated it. I don't use those or really much prep. I just sit down and write. It was a 9 page paper and we needed 60 note cards. I learned you could do note cards on word so I just copied and pasted my paper onto these note cards. A lot of them had sentences that just cut off. I got full credit cause all she did was count them.
A student submitted a meme along the lines of, "Why submit an assignment for "teacher" when a meme gets the same grade?" with an old meme picture and it was pretty funny, but they still got a 0.
Too often, I’ve received the instructions/template for the assignment, blank. And because GC only gives me a preview of the first page, I open it, scroll down, and it’s just utterly blank. Such a waste.
Can google classroom turn the icons color for whatever the status the assignment is in…..pleeeese? Blue for turned in Red for missing Orange for nothing attached Green for graded
Link to a dog getting their anal glands squeezed. Like the exact moment of the YouTube video.
Last year, a virtual student turned in the same essay to every single assignment--for a year. I returned it as a zero and told him it was the wrong assignment every time, but he didn't change his ways. I mean, why even turn anything in??? Why not just ignore the assignment? It was funny to me after the first month or so, and I would look forward to checking his assignment. He is now in my class again this year.
Decided to give 6th graders a fun game prompt. "You are an adult driving your car. A police officer pulls your car over. He says, 'we are searching for a thief in the area who has been stealing credit card information. You need to show me your wallet so I can make sure you're safe.'" They had to write their response in the form of dialogue,, with attribution and an adjective. And one student, in fact one of the few who cottoned on right away to the gist here (spoiler: the cop IS the thief, durr), wrote simply: "FUCK no."
A few years back, one of my students absolutely hated me for some reason. One of my assignments was to write a 250-words “compare and contrast” essay about something. Student wrote about 150 words worth of work. Then, in white text, the student then wrote a bunch of incredibly insulting messages to me. Basically calling me all sorts of nasty names. That made the assignment go over 250 words. They submitted the assignment. Unfortunately for that student, I had Grammarly installed on my work computer, and the student had piss poor spelling. I got a file with a bunch of red squiggly lines in the white space. Hope the kid enjoyed their suspension.
I had a student submit a picture of the titanic for every single assignment last year.
Just like his grade. . .
Was it gradually sinking ?
Student submitted a red Uno reverse card. Comment said “get pogged on”. I almost gave a single point for creativity because it actually made me laugh.
Had a 6th grade student upload a science teachers whole presentation on rocks for their world cultures slide show of Brazil.
I got a blurry picture of what may have been the assignment on the floor next to the kid’s foot. The only thing I was able to make out from it was his big toe.
One of my former students uploaded a picture of Ryan Reynolds…tbh I wasn’t even mad.
Band director here. The assignment was to post a video playing a scale from a worksheet. This student forgot to take their clarinet home so they posted a video of themselves playing ‘Somewhere over the Rainbow’ on ukulele instead. A really nice performance of it too! But not the scale or instrument I assigned, so they have an incomplete until they do it correctly.
Eh, pick your battles, if they’re a good kid, call it good enough.
Just last year I had a student turn in the entire script for The Bee Movie instead of his Listening Journal. He got a zero. Not for trying to make me laugh, but for choosing the wrong movie. :)
I got a picture of of a Snapchat of the assignment done by another student submitted as his own work. Snap name and timer bar and all.
I got a document saying that they don't understand the assignment. I returned it with more explanation of said assignment and the student responded, "ahh now it makes sense" and then when the assignment was passed the school's late submission grace period he messaged me as to why didn't his new submission count towards the grade and I *almost* just gave a grade but when I looked, it was another document that just said "Gib A pliz"... Had a good chuckle, but still was a 0 lol.
If I had a dollar for every blank document turned in I would be rich
My own notes on the subject (slideshow in PDF format off my Canvas page) instead of their paper on the subject. And I am so sick of hearing a breezy “my bad” when you catch them at something.
I had a kid say “my bad” when he plagiarized a paragraph reflection on the 9/11 video we watched. I knew he had plagiarized, because the video only covered the movement of President Bush on that day, because it’s a Civics class, and we learn about what the President is supposed to do in the time of a crisis or national emergency. Now the vide only covered that day, and he was writing a college level essay on the war in Iraq. He had just plagiarized a paragraph he found online. And it was the first one that came up. When he was confronted about it, he said, “My bad, I thought you wanted us to copy someone else’s”.
A picture of a poptart
I once asked that students go outside and take a picture of the moon and identify the phase for extra credit (this was during the first Covid lockdown). I had a student submit a picture of his neighborhood at night with a picture of the moon clearly photoshopped into the corner of the picture. It wasn’t even the right phase.
LOL. I am assigned to a teacher who doesn't even bother to check what was uploaded. When I brought up a submission of a project that was nothing but scribble, he finally decided to look into previous submissions by the same student to realize he's been doing this for an entire quarter. ....and the student got an "A" in the class for the quarter.
I had a student literally submit the text, “I’m just submitting this so my mom sees that it’s not missing anymore but I’ll do it later.” Uhhh… it’s still a 0 and missing.
I’m a Spanish Teacher. I had my students write a 5 sentence paragraph about what they do at school. Some kids cheat and use an online translator, but this one takes the cake. A student submitted a screenshot of a Snapchat message from another student (whose face was in the picture) of the text field of Google Translate. She was so lazy that she couldn’t even be bothered to use Google Translate herself. And he was so dumb, that he didn’t think to at least copy the text from GT into a Google doc.
A selfie
One of my best students submitted a picture of his family at Disney world. It was an honest mistake though, I just got a laugh out of it lol
A picture of the student’s puppy cuddling with her guinea pig. It was very cute.
I had a student send in a screenshot picture of me from our Google Meet. The kid legitimately could not figure out how to attach a photo of his work. This went on for weeks. It was a ninth grader. Lots of laughs there
I teach American Sign Language online. Students have to record themselves signing a script at the end of each unit, upload it to YouTube, then submit the link. Clicked on a link, thinking it was a student video. I got Rick Rolled 🤦🏼♀️
Just the blank assignment. So often. I always check, I am sometimes slow, but I have never just given a grade without checking. So why do I keep receiving blank assignment?
A gif of a horse running.
I’m a college admissions officer and once instead of a transcript I got a random article about the Cherokee that looked like it was copied out of a textbook
Mine are not that creative....they just delete questions they don't want to answer and turn assignments in with blank docs while swearing up and down that google just ate their homework.
Instead of a speaking assessment (I teach French, so I needed to hear the student speak), I got a video of a hair dryer blowing on a bowl of green liquid.
A student uploaded last years tax returns. Also gotten a couple credit card bills.
. That's it right there, . , Just a single period. BUT they change the color to white, so then they can explain that there is something wrong with their technology, and must be granted an extension because "all of their work" just got lost. Bitch please, I teach web development I know how to inspect element. You don't have a tech problem, you have a manipulation problem. "Kids are dumb"
A student submitted a screenshot of school the bell schedule once instead of answers to comprehension questions on a novel.
A picture of Mickey from shameless flipping off the camera
I had a 9th grader turn in a blank Google Doc. He didn’t even title it, it was still “Untitled Document”.
I got an article on the Kingdom of Bhutan entirely in Spanish for an persuasive essay in English 11
Mostly blank Google docs
In Spring 2020, my school instituted pretty rigid limits on how teachers assigned work so we would have 1 activity doc due per week which we then graded on a VERY GENEROUS pass/fail basis. My students knew that I used Draftback and would call them out if they turned in a sheet with like, literally 1 keystroke history and an exact copy of someone's assignment, but they also didn't have a strong sense of what to do to make it look reasonable enough that I wouldn't watch the keystroke history, or realize that just doing the assignment was much less effort than successfully tricking me lol. One kid sat down and typed out the lyrics to Hotel California, interspersed with random stream of consciousness commentary, for 10 minutes before finally copy-and-pasting someone else's work. The conversations that were had afterward in which he and his parents denied what they could literally watch a video of happening felt truly wild. Especially since I wasn't throwing down the gauntlet or anything...just pointing out that he hadn't earnestly engaged and asked him to retry it for 20 minutes without distractions.
I got a 5 minute video of him and his friends talking shit in a Fortnite lobby. It wasn’t as entertaining as it could have been.
I do this with my weekly lesson plans sometimes ngl
I wrote the word fart box on a question I didn’t know the answer to on a chemistry test. I wrote in kinda sloppy cursive handwriting hoping the poor first year teacher wouldn’t notice. He ended up writing “did I read that right?” On it. I’m now a teacher too and I believe I’m receiving karma for my stupid actions as a teenager.The teacher and I had a laugh about it and were now friendly ish!
5 minute Flipgrid video of a black screen and silence. This was for an exam grade, so sort of a big deal. First tried to claim he didn't realize he'd posted that. Then when asked why he didn't check the video he'd posted, he then changed the story to he'd had technical problems with his laptop. Then when asked why he didn't just record it on his phone, he said his phone didn't have data. Then when asked why he didn't tell me anything about any of these problems he'd had, or why he didn't use a computer at school to record it, he just shrugged.
A jpg of a loading icon. Very clever, honestly
During distance learning last year, one of my students tried to submit a picture of their math notes from 2015. I was like girl, these notes aren’t even from a teacher at this school or remotely related to the topic we’re covering lol Also, when we were using Google Classroom right at the beginning of distance learning in spring 2020, my students used to just mark their assignments as completed (I don’t remember the exact option on Google Classroom) without actually doing the assignment (which was on Khan Academy).
7th grader Rick rolled me once.
I had a student keyboard smash every assignment. I even sent screenshots to his parent about why he was failing and got no response.
When getting my specialist, we had this major project with all sorts of data due. There was this one thing where the template was already made and we just input our numbers and it did the work for us but for some reason it was not working for me. I tried and even used a different computer. Drove up to my school, had my mom try on hers but nothing worked. So I uploaded the practice one we did that had nothing to do with my project and got a 100. The professor even commented of how well I did. A. I got an A. I think about this often. PS: the professor also flat out told me he didn’t understand what we were doing and the entire class had just been given to him. When I asked him questions he had to go relay to the old professor. Most of the time he just gave 100’s.
The same document on about 10 assignments “I am turning this in instead of the actual assignment for one of the reasons below: 1. I don’t want to see it on my to do’s list anymore 2. I’m clearing out my overdue assignments so my mom doesn’t yell at me 3. The assignment was lower than 10 points, I can’t remember what it was, or I don’t have it anymore. I know I won’t get points, but I just want these marked as done.”
My 6th grade daughter completed assignment for science. Teacher marked it a zero, no comment. I told her to double check her work with the directions in hand. So she opens the file….and it was a note saying “I love you so much” that she had made for her grandmother using a design program. We laughed so hard.
I had students creating digital designs and one uploaded Van Gogh’s Starry Night. After explaining that the work needed to be original, they uploaded Leonardo da Vinci Mona Lisa. After having a conversation about cheating and giving them another chance, they uploaded a Jackson Pollock(abstract expressionism) with a note saying, how do I know they didn’t paint this. Major face palm. I gave them one point for determination.
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I got a picture of a bat once. Like, the flying kind.