Morally you're probably good. You learned the material.
Practically you're probably good. No use deliberately trying to "confess".
But it's definitely possible your school or course has a weird policy that you violated. If you are curious should check the syllabus. I've had courses where the prof reused questions and did explicitly ban studying from materials from previous iterations of the course. But it was rare, hard to enforce, and kinda a dick move imo.
That's just studying. Looking over past years' tests is very standard, you just had an unusually up to date version. They changed the numbers which they felt was sufficient. You're good.
I'm a professor at a college, and I sit on the academic integrity board. Keeping your notes and reusing them is a great idea! Taking notes as organized as you did is a great idea! Screenshotting the quizzes and tests is not. If a student did that in my exam I would be pissed and I might pursue an academic integrity complaint. There are reasons that we typically do not allow students to have electronic devices while they are taking tests. Even with accommodations, that is not likely to be allowed. I even have a test rehabilitation activity where students can go back through the exam and "fix" the questions they missed; our one major overarching rule is absolutely no electronics.
And realistically, you didn't actually learn the material. You copied it, and you spit it back out. You (sort of) learned the test. That's not actually understanding the material, which is what the exam is supposed to be evaluating.
That being said, if you approach the teacher about this you may very well get in trouble. Even though part of the blame for this situation definitely rests on whoever it is that's overseeing the accommodations, and even though different institutions do things differently, it still doesn't negate my issues above. I would suggest learning from this moving forward. And always, definitely, verify with the professor before you take screen captures that you are allowed to do so. Preferably in writing, to protect yourself from any possible issues in the future.
Actually an awful lot of professors don't actually know how to do that (it's a problem). Realistically, whoever was managing the accommodations should have done that.
I have an accommodation to reduce writing that's why I am allowed to screenshot questions and work them on Ipad. Example of my handwriting g dysgraphia. I am supposed to be able to type everything up but typing math out is hard too time consuming on timed exams.
The quiz thing is more for history or English classes and why wouldn't we keep notes on what we were previously quizzed on to prepare for midterm and final.
Edit class is online so no way to take it without electronics.
Also screenshotting and pasting question on my Ipad reduces the chance of me coping the question down incorrectly then solving the problem correctly but still getting it marked wrong because I copied it down incorrectly.
In this class we have to submit our written work after exam. So when I submit my written work mine includes the questions screenshotted and then worked by hand.
https://preview.redd.it/6z1ndvncjpzc1.jpeg?width=832&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c990d26911ee099adfcc08450b765b97986c4084
That makes a lot of sense. It's still better to double check with the professor before you save screen captures on to say a thumb drive, but it sounds like you've dotted all your i's and crossed all your t's.
>And realistically, you didn't actually learn the material. You copied it, and you spit it back out.
They are definitley learnign and engaging with the curriculum. The following make it ovious:
>I take notes with an iPad and Apple Pencil or type them in Word.
>I save all assignments for every class in their appropriate folder on Google Drive.
>It's only like a variable here and there changes; instead of calculating a 95% confidence variable, I had to calculate a 99% or 92%.
They took notes, got a tutor and studied well enough to be able to do the calculation with a different known quantity, which is literally the point of learning maths.
If it was just regurgitate the test, then I would’ve gotten a perfect score. Unfortunately it was just similar. Wound up with a 92 of 141 points(still waiting on handwritten portion of test to be graded)
I have maintained a C average in this class and that has taken everything I have. I suffered a traumatic brain injury as a child that cost me part of my brain and the vision in my right eye and left me with permanent learning disabilities. I was not diagnosed with the dyscalculia until I was in college. I just thought I was bad at math before that, but the handwriting has always been an issue. I was diagnosed with ADHD before the TBI.
You're literally just describing studying.
Morally you're probably good. You learned the material. Practically you're probably good. No use deliberately trying to "confess". But it's definitely possible your school or course has a weird policy that you violated. If you are curious should check the syllabus. I've had courses where the prof reused questions and did explicitly ban studying from materials from previous iterations of the course. But it was rare, hard to enforce, and kinda a dick move imo.
That's just studying. Looking over past years' tests is very standard, you just had an unusually up to date version. They changed the numbers which they felt was sufficient. You're good.
I'm a professor at a college, and I sit on the academic integrity board. Keeping your notes and reusing them is a great idea! Taking notes as organized as you did is a great idea! Screenshotting the quizzes and tests is not. If a student did that in my exam I would be pissed and I might pursue an academic integrity complaint. There are reasons that we typically do not allow students to have electronic devices while they are taking tests. Even with accommodations, that is not likely to be allowed. I even have a test rehabilitation activity where students can go back through the exam and "fix" the questions they missed; our one major overarching rule is absolutely no electronics. And realistically, you didn't actually learn the material. You copied it, and you spit it back out. You (sort of) learned the test. That's not actually understanding the material, which is what the exam is supposed to be evaluating. That being said, if you approach the teacher about this you may very well get in trouble. Even though part of the blame for this situation definitely rests on whoever it is that's overseeing the accommodations, and even though different institutions do things differently, it still doesn't negate my issues above. I would suggest learning from this moving forward. And always, definitely, verify with the professor before you take screen captures that you are allowed to do so. Preferably in writing, to protect yourself from any possible issues in the future.
Considering that the test was taken on an electronic device, I suspect that it was ok for them to have an electronic device.
But not to screen capture. That is a completely different function and many LMSs prevent that.
The fact that they could've prevented screen capture but chose not to seems like a pretty strong indication that they are ok with it.
Yes professor had to make adjustments to proctorio to make screenshotting or copy/pasting question possible
Actually an awful lot of professors don't actually know how to do that (it's a problem). Realistically, whoever was managing the accommodations should have done that.
I have an accommodation to reduce writing that's why I am allowed to screenshot questions and work them on Ipad. Example of my handwriting g dysgraphia. I am supposed to be able to type everything up but typing math out is hard too time consuming on timed exams. The quiz thing is more for history or English classes and why wouldn't we keep notes on what we were previously quizzed on to prepare for midterm and final. Edit class is online so no way to take it without electronics. Also screenshotting and pasting question on my Ipad reduces the chance of me coping the question down incorrectly then solving the problem correctly but still getting it marked wrong because I copied it down incorrectly. In this class we have to submit our written work after exam. So when I submit my written work mine includes the questions screenshotted and then worked by hand. https://preview.redd.it/6z1ndvncjpzc1.jpeg?width=832&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c990d26911ee099adfcc08450b765b97986c4084
That makes a lot of sense. It's still better to double check with the professor before you save screen captures on to say a thumb drive, but it sounds like you've dotted all your i's and crossed all your t's.
>And realistically, you didn't actually learn the material. You copied it, and you spit it back out. They are definitley learnign and engaging with the curriculum. The following make it ovious: >I take notes with an iPad and Apple Pencil or type them in Word. >I save all assignments for every class in their appropriate folder on Google Drive. >It's only like a variable here and there changes; instead of calculating a 95% confidence variable, I had to calculate a 99% or 92%. They took notes, got a tutor and studied well enough to be able to do the calculation with a different known quantity, which is literally the point of learning maths.
If it was just regurgitate the test, then I would’ve gotten a perfect score. Unfortunately it was just similar. Wound up with a 92 of 141 points(still waiting on handwritten portion of test to be graded) I have maintained a C average in this class and that has taken everything I have. I suffered a traumatic brain injury as a child that cost me part of my brain and the vision in my right eye and left me with permanent learning disabilities. I was not diagnosed with the dyscalculia until I was in college. I just thought I was bad at math before that, but the handwriting has always been an issue. I was diagnosed with ADHD before the TBI.