Dartmouth Profs Keep Assigning Papers by Using Google Docs Version History to Prove Human Writing
paulnovosad · x · 2026-10-01
paulnovosad highlights how Dartmouth professors successfully still assign research papers in the AI era: one approach has students write in Google Docs, where version history proves the writing was human. A follow-up adds that making cheating require significant planning turns any detection into an unambiguous suspension-level offense, raising the cost of cheating.
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