To want to pay someone to do my uni work

[Paid30307]

I know deep down it’s a bad idea but it feels like the best option.

I wonder if they mean subject specific tutoring is banned. I work in a study skills team in a university and whilst we can't give subject specific advice, as we're not subject specialists, we can help with essay planning, structure, critical analysis, referencing etc...

No you haven't.

I took the PP to mean subject specific tutoring.

I was surprised. I had never heard of this. Of course tutors cannot ethically participate in your assessments, but that is different.

FWIW AI tells me that OU only forbids private tutors helping with assessments, same as everywhere. It is the only uni that had been mentioned, AFAIK

😆 why pay for a course you don't want to do the work for? So you can get a job you aren't qualified to actually do?

Double 😆😆 if you haven't yet worked out that most of adult life is working a job you don't want to do. This is literally life for you unless you strike very lucky or work very hard and set up a business to earn passive income.

I know how you feel op, I sometimes feel like a mug doing uni the correct way. I spent weeks reading and working on an assignment to scrape a pass whilst a friend used ai and got a 1st, it can feel very demotivating. I wouldn't cheat personally but not because unis can tell. I often think theyre reliant on students admitting it when suspected of. We have panels where we have to prove we did the work which should be easy enough if you did read and write it yourself. Our tutors have told us they cant prove it, they just have a feeling or like others suggeysed, its very different to how a student normally writes. We've even been told we can use ai, we just need to reference it. Other than writing on google docs and having every word/edit recorded, I cant see how unis can ever truly confirm someone has cheated

DS2 is studying engineering. There are lab assignments to build a working model lasting 6 weeks. Before the deadline for presentation there are posts on the course group chat by those whose model does not work offering up to £300 for someone to fix it for them. AI or tutors can’t do that. But does seem to have opened up cheating as a norm. Or normalised the rich and feckless exploiting the hard working poor.

Absolute bullshit thread. Are you touting for work, @Paid30307?

I used to do assignments for people, it paid for my fees. Lost alot of brain cells since then or I wound help you 😂

No

We are talking about people paying tutors that aren't their uni tutor. It's not allowed at the ou

You're a cheat as well then. Clearly

Wow. Gone are the days when we had to research and take books out of the library to complete assignments. Degrees were so much more difficult back in the day .

Consensus.ai you’re welcome!

Nope! You would feel like shit, like everything you worked for wasn't real. Not worth the stain on your achievement. Talk to your course leader, take a break, maybe make you studies part time if not already. But don't let yourself down like this.

Unis use software to check for plagiarism and AI. In fact the AI checks trip up a lot of false positives for ND people because it flags their writing style as robotic.

I have though, it was an home exam.

How sad. Even if you could with no consequences how does this help you?
My DD is at uni and has a paper due Tuesday. She spent all day at the library working. She would as soon use AI as stick pins in her eyes. She is gaining knowledge and skills. Today she was at the library til midnight and probably will be tomorrow after classes. Why? Because she is paying a lot of money to get this degree and she sees no point in taking an easy route. What other students do has nothing to do with her. She has her own standards and lives by them. When she graduates with a first she can stand tall and proud in the knowledge that she got there through her own hard work.
If you are struggling and feel overwhelmed there are resources and help out there. Do not sink to cheating.

I know somebody who copied someone else's work. She had been working in the field for years and needed to have the degree as all her new colleagues had it. She took someone's work from the year before her and copied it. She flew through her degree. It was before AI although I was always worried for her that the university would find out.

Who do you think you can pay that would do a good job? I've heard of a couple of people do that and the person they paid plagiarised so much of the content... it didn't go well for them.

Of course, it's not a scenario that they could report the person...it's a bit like saying the hitman you paid, didn't do the job.

You'll waste money and fail.

Lose/Lose.

Erm, yes. Clearly

You have demonstrated here your utter ignorance of what Media Studies is. A critical media literacy (including the political economy of the media which impacts what news is foregrounded to audiences and which is not) is really important in this day and age. It develops critical appraisal, sound research and writing skills as well as practice skills in documentary and other forms of media. It encourages a mature analysis of PR and critically considers the complex relationship between politics and the media. Stop jumping on the populist discourse bandwagon and educate yourself about what’s involved in a Media Studies degree. And no, I don’t teach this subject.

Everyone has their own writing style and way of writing, your tutor will know as it will stand out a mile off.
I don't even know how these people manage to write essays for other people? Most of the time it's on content you are studying from the institutions module books, with familiar references to the tutors.
I'm in my final year, finish in May. Worked my arse off to get my predicted first class, all work is my own, never used AI or chat GPT, and I'm damn proud of my achievements. If you can't be bothered then just pack it in, but why not just continue as it's almost over? Turnitin picks up the tiniest thing, I know because we can submit our draft essays to it before submission, so can see everything it highlights, you will get caught and get referred for academic misconduct which is serious. These "essay writers" don't care, and it's people like you and them who devalue degrees.

Could you please link us to the policy?

What I found sats that working with a private tutor on an assessment is forbidden, as it is everywhere.

But if eg I am studying a foreign language and having trouble conjugating verbs, are you saying that OU would forbid me booking some sessions with a private tutor to work on conjugation? Or if my translations aren’t going well, would OU forbid me from hiring a tutor to provide me with some extra exercises in translation?

Also interested in whether such a policy holds anywhere else

TIA

Who took screen shots of students cheating on a take home exam? How were they circulated?

Ou policies are all online - a Google search will bring them up. The language degrees at the ou have an incredible amount of support - a family member is doing one. There is no need for people to be hiring outside tutors when you have a tutor of your own. That's the point they are making