Was this professor's way of handling cheaters funny?

[Liliesxoxo]

He caught two students cheating before (both different cases) but he had a unique way of confronting the situation. He didn't spent his time walking around the classroom during exams; he expected they were already adults that should know better.

First case:

From his desk, he caught from a distance two students blatantly coping from each other. He still let them finish the exam. He didn't announce the cheaters at that moment; didn't want to disrupt the class. He graded their exams (with a red pen) a 0 and made a ''BLATANT CHEATING. SO OBVIOUS. NICE TRY BUT IT LACKS CREATIVITY'' comment. Then he failed them in the class. They both had to retake the course.

Second case:

A student turned in his research paper but it was someone else's research that had already been graded last semester with a perfect A. The comment was an ''Great research. It's a perfect A but it has been graded last semester. Your perfect score has been divided by 2. You scored a 50%. Nice try though.'' He gave him a 50% on both the research and grade on the class. He had to retake the course.

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He made the student at first believe they had gotten away with it but they didn. That professor wasn't dumb.
He once explained the way he graded plagiarized paperwork. He grades them by both the original grade and the student's grade of 0 for cheating... divides that by 2 and gives whatever grade that is.

[Googlemyahoo]

In my computer science class the prof said at the beginning the entire course and all assignments were online so you could go do them if you felt like it. Near the end of the year I saw the final was up and took a look it seemed easy so I did it.

We had to hand in a printed out version of our final and an online working version. I did that then in class he mentions updating the final for THIS year. Doh I did the previous years.

So I get up at the end of lecture and explain the situation to him. He was probably borderline autistic no emotion just said ok ok ok.

I do the final again for that year hand it in. Eventually marks get posted…. Wtf I failed? Go see the prof who informs me I did the final wrong. I’m lije don’t you remember me explaining the situation he doesn’t.

They had a rule if you failed the final you fail the course regardless your average mine was like 95%. I lost my shit on the little bill gates looking prick.

I had to go over his head and go through this whole process of reviewing it. I even had a couple students who witnessed me telling him about it.

Apparently the issue was the student aid who marked for the prof just threw out the second one I did. I had the sent email and copies with date so they ended up having to redo my mark.

After that if I saw that profs name listed on a course I didn’t take it.

[Liliesxoxo]

If that professor is in the autistic spectrum than he probably had issues with grading other students too. It's a miracle that he still teaches.