What're the odds of getting falsely accused and convicted of cheating?

As wrong as it is to cheat, I feel like the profs were baiting the students.

Students had a 24 hour window to do the exam. Once they clicked start, their timer started though.

However, the dropboxes for all the coding questions were available the entire 24 hour period and titled them the literal names of questions.

You could simply type in "[name of question]" on google and one of the first things that comes up is the website which Harder is accusing so many people of cheating from.

There's no way they didn't expect even a single person to search up this 2-word question name on google; doesn't even have to be for the purpose of cheating, even if it was to just find out wtf the name means.

That question name was a simple mathematical concept that anyone would have been confused by if they saw it for the first time, so it's completely acceptable for people to have wanted to clarify wtf it means, so they don't sit there confused while the timer is running.

So not only was it a lazily put together exam with a time limit that most people would believe was unreasonable, the name of this infamous question that everyone's tripping over was made available to everyone before even starting the exam and could have been easily searched up in a few seconds.

/r/uwaterloo Thread Parent