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As 'Bot' Students Continue to Flood In, Community Colleges Struggle to Respond

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Re: As 'Bot' Students Continue to Flood In, Community Colleges Struggle to Respond

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Yeah, they once told my wife this "expect students to show up in person", when she was pregnant and not all the time well. The result? Thrown out of the self paid language course at university with no refund.

Should be able to sue. Basic human rights.

Should have filed with the office of disability services (or access services or whatever they call it) for accommodations.

Without that there's no lawsuit.

Re: As 'Bot' Students Continue to Flood In, Community Colleges Struggle to Respond

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The author tried really hard to dance around the real problem here: California is apparently paying students to attend online community college.

If attending these classes was even just free, this wouldn't be a problem. Giving out student aid for online classes is just ridiculous.

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It does afaik so I'm confused what the monetary scam is. Community College in California is cheap or free for most students so I feel like something is being left out of the explanation.

Student loans are usually for more than tuition and books. Part of the loan money is for living expenses.

If someone is able to first scam state and financial aid for a non existent student that seems more first issue to fix than at the point there's a bot/scammer in CC classes submitting AI homework.

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Stop offering online classes and expect students to show up in person. Online education sucks, everyone knows this. Everyone knows that they are making some kind of compromise when teaching or taking an online course. And if people are too poor to drive themselves to college or have to work too much or whatever else, then the state should provide opportunities for them so that they can continue their education. Stop…

Yeah, they once told my wife this "expect students to show up in person", when she was pregnant and not all the time well. The result? Thrown out of the self paid language course at university with no refund.

Your wife should have received accommodations through the office of accommodation services or disability services or access or whatever they call it.

The school should have had information about that in the syllabus.

Either way, with appropriate accommodations, in person classes can be flexible as well.

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This is so strange. When I was enrolled in college my financial aid was sent directly to the college, I couldn't steal it even if I wanted to.

Financial aid is sent directly to the college. However, if you have a positive balance in your account (financial aid, grants, scholarships, or loans more than tuition and fees) you can request the bursar deposit that balance into your bank account. This is how I paid for living expenses in the years I lived off campus.

Re: As 'Bot' Students Continue to Flood In, Community Colleges Struggle to Respond

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When I read that title, I was expecting the following story: "Academic ghostwriters", thanks to AI, are now completing online degrees by the hundreds per actual human headcount, selling the opportunity to put one's name on the "work" to fraudulently obtain a degree.

Re: As 'Bot' Students Continue to Flood In, Community Colleges Struggle to Respond

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Student loans are usually for more than tuition and books. Part of the loan money is for living expenses.

If someone is able to first scam state and financial aid for a non existent student that seems more first issue to fix than at the point there's a bot/scammer in CC classes submitting AI homework.

You asked what the monetary scam was. I answered that. Don’t understand your response above.

Re: As 'Bot' Students Continue to Flood In, Community Colleges Struggle to Respond

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I'm a prof at a community college and I encountered this last semester. I was teaching an online class of 30 and 3-4 were definitely "fake" students. A college had about half her students turn out to be "fake." Students had to do discussion board posts and these students responses all had html formatting as if they were indented replies from an email chain. The clincher was one of them posted in the introduction mess…

What’s the point of sending a fake student to a community college? What’s the end goal of the people running these bots?

literally in the first few paragraphs of the linked article?
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