Thursday, September 18, 2008

The lull before storm.
I sat at our new "electronic help desk" phone enquiry service for an hour today. We anticipate in the coming weeks lots of problems with and enquiries about the changes in logins to dozens and dozens of databases that has been forced upon us. I'm sure we won't be the only university struggling with this but I have a feeling our own IT guys have not made the situation easier.

But today - still a couple of weeks before the students return en masse, I escaped without a single call.

Gave me a chance to read a journal article about a plagiarism study which had surveyed students on the issue. Apparently one of them had copied the free text responses of a friend...

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