sus on Nostr: This is a great post about teaching and exams but i particularly appreciate this ...
This is a great post about teaching and exams but i particularly appreciate this digression about email -
Most of my students don’t like email. … It turns out that by imposing Outlook with mandatory subscription to useless academic emails, we make sure that students hate email (Microsoft is on a mission to destroy email with the worst possible user experience).
I will never forgive the people who decided to migrate university mail servers to Outlook. This was both incompetence and malice on a terrifying level because there were enough warnings and opposition from very competent people at the time.
Giving University Exams in the Age of Chatbots
How I managed to give an exam while giving the students the choice to use a chatbot or not.
And what I learned in the process.
https://ploum.net/2026-01-19-exam-with-chatbots.html
Published at
2026-01-20 16:53:48 UTCEvent JSON
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