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Dartmouth's Geisel School of Medicine Reportedly Used Canvas Activity Logs to Accuse Students of Cheating
- Occurred
- Mar 15, 2021
- Published
- May 9, 2021
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
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.
Developers
- Geisel School of Medicine's Technology staff
- Canvas
Deployers
- Geisel School of Medicine
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
Category confidence: 90%
Severity confidence: 85%
Rationale: Students were tracked without knowledge, indicating unauthorized data collection and privacy violations.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8