Are educators reading this posts?

My SO is a college educator facing the same issues - basically correcting ChatGPT essays and homework. Which is, beside, pointless also slow and expensive.

We put together some tooling to avoid the problem altogether - basically making the homework/assignment BEING the ChatGPT conversation.

In this way the teacher can simply "correct"/"verify" what mental model the student used to reach to a conclusion/solution.

With a grading that goes from zero point for "It basically copied the problem to another LLM, got a response, and copied back in our chat" to full points for "the student tried different routes - re-elaborate concepts, asked clarifying question, and finally expressed the correct mental model around the problem.

I would love to chat with more educators and see how this can be expanded and tested.

For moderately small classes I am happy to shoulder the pricing of the API.

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argestes 7 days ago | parent [-]

I think you are making an excellent suggestion but students still can use ChatGPT before talking to ChatGPT to get highest grades.

	▲	iot_devs 7 days ago \| parent [-]
		Honestly I don't see the problem. The students are cheating into studying more? Homework and home assignments are not really a way to grade students. It is mostly a way to force them to go through the materials by themselves and check their own understanding. If they do the exercises twice all the better. (Also nowadays homework are almost all perfect scores) Which is why LLM are so deleterious to students. They are basically robbing them of the thing that actually has value for them. Recalling information, re-elaborating those information, and apply new mental models.