Dartmouth's Geisel School of Medicine Reportedly Used Canvas Activity Logs to Accuse Students of Cheating
Description
Dartmouth's Geisel School of Medicine reportedly used Canvas learning-management activity logs and an internal analysis process to investigate remote-exam cheating during the 2020–2021 academic year. Seventeen medical students were charged after the school inferred that they accessed course materials during exams, but students and outside technical reviewers said automated Canvas activity may have been misread as intentional misconduct. Dartmouth later dropped the charges.
Actors
Alleged Deployers
- geisel-school-of-medicine
Alleged Developers
- geisel-school-of-medicine's-technology-staff
- canvas
Harmed Parties
- university-students
- students
- sirey-zhang
- medical-students
- geisel-school-of-medicine's-students
- geisel-school-of-medicine's-professors
- geisel-school-of-medicine's-accused-students
- epistemic-integrity
- educational-communities
Classification
Risk Domain
AI Safety & FailuresRisk Subdomain
7.3. Lack of capability or robustness
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