I frequently (much more frequently than I want) grump at students not to cheat. Perhaps students do not know what it means to cheat. Cheating ( or plagiarizing) is simply submitting someone elses work as your own. This can be things like getting help from someone you shouldn't, copying from the Internet, copying from other students, having a tutor do your work, etc.
Cheating is socially, morally, and professionally dishonest and wrong. In an educational setting, it means that students are not learning what they should be learning. In a professional setting, it could cost an employee their job, or worse.
This institution does not take cheating, plagiarizing or dishonesty seriously. This institution makes it quite difficult for a faculty member who catches students being dishonest to do anything meaningful about even blatent dishonesty.
Having said the above, the two images below are samples from two different students tests. As one can obviously see, these answers are almost identical, character for character. Factually, these two test images are from students in different classes. These two students turned in almost identical tests, although these images are a small snapshot of the entire test,
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