What tools detect cut-and-paste and LLM cheating on assignments?
Students copy content directly from online reviews or AI tools, sometimes explicitly asking teachers to turn a blind eye to the cheating. Without reliable detection software to track paste events and editing time, educators are left spending money on specialized apps just to prove academic dishonesty.
What people tried
Every workaround mentioned in the threads below. We haven’t tested any of them — and nobody here is claiming they worked.
- 1Giving students a chance to rewrite plagiarized work
- 2Writing a test passage in a journal to see if teachers actually read submissions
- 3Rewriting and reordering online text to bypass search engines and plagiarism checkers
- 4Using built-in Google Classroom originality reports
- 5Using AI models to evaluate whether text was generated by AI
In their words
Unedited, grouped by where they were said, most upvoted first within each place, each linked to the thread it came from.
“A student literally copied commentary from the New York Times Review of Books.”source ↗
“Student literally said to me (actual literally, not metaphorical literally, I know the difference, I'm an English teacher): "You weren't supposed to read that."”source ↗
““If you really cared about me, you’d let me cheat in peace.””source ↗
“A 14 year old recently told me “we wouldn’t have any problems if you’d just let me do what I want””source ↗
“Before I spend $40 on an Aidify Pro account I figured I'd ask what app/extension you folks are using this year.”source ↗
“I want a tool that lets me know what was cut/pasted, how long they worked on the assignment and any other things that can help me nail the LLM cheaters.”source ↗
Where this came up
People with this problem also raised
- 3Students cheating and filming with smart glasses
- 4Why'd my answers get marked wrong when I have the same answers?
- 4What to do when students deny cheating despite evidence
- 2Why do homework questions have no explanation or poor wording?
- 4Why do students just copy worksheet text instead of answering?
- 18Why do students keep stealing and breaking classroom supplies?