Engineering professor saw a student walk out early during a test. He had a different idea of what the test was: ‘I don’t really understand computers’

Husky (@huskystarttv), an engineering teacher for first-year students, told TikTok about an experience with a pupil that left her flabbergasted. After giving her students a midterm exam, one pupil had a different idea of what a test means.

“Guys, I think the iPad kids have reached college,” Husky told TikTok. Last week, she gave her students an exam. Before that, she said she had already told them what to review. Husky also said the exam was design-focused, and students had to answer by sharing their design solutions.

“There’s no math, or physics, or anything like that. It’s based purely on design experience,” she added. She believes the test wouldn’t be difficult for students who’ve participated in class. However, she said a few students arrived late. She also alleged that some approached her and asked what they were going to do for the day, unaware they had a midterm exam.

“Not only was it in the syllabus, on the assignment schedule, I put it in an announcement that was automatically sent out to their emails. When the Canvas test opens, it sends something to their emails,” Husky contextualized. It’s not as if they had a chair pulled out from under them and bumped their head on the floor. Husky had repeatedly discussed the exam and even set a reminder on the student learning platform. When some students seemed to forget about the exam, Husky confessed she felt a bit upset.

The weirdest exam encounter

Regardless, she still conducted the exam. While monitoring them, she noticed one student on his phone with headphones on. He didn’t have his laptop out, which was required for the exam. She believed that he was scrolling on his phone because he was smiling and giggling, too.

“I guess he’s taking the test on the Canvas app on his phone and, like, switching back and forth,” she assumed. Husky thought that the student was taking the test while simultaneously doomscrolling on social media. Although she found it bizarre, she didn’t want to approach the student and call him out in front of other classmates. Instead, she planned to deduct ten points from his final exam score.

An hour later, she said the student had left without a word. Husky let it go, assuming he was already done with the exam. But because he had been doomscrolling on his phone, Husky wanted to see what her student had submitted on the Canvas app.

Why her student didn’t answer the exam

“He didn’t submit anything. He came to class, sat on his phone for an hour, and then left,” she alleged. While some students had to claw their way into college against all odds, Husky’s pupil just abandoned class without submitting his exam. She gave him a zero, then asked him in the app’s comment section, “Why did you come into class, not do the exam, and then leave?”

Her student replied on the app, saying he had completed the exam. She further alleged that the student mistook his peer review survey for his groupmates’ as the actual midterm examination. She commented, “You thought the peer review survey was an exam?” Bewildered by her discovery, Husky looked into her student’s peer review evaluation.

He allegedly commented in his peer review, “I didn’t really know what was happening in this project, because I don’t really understand computers.” She and her student spoke last Friday, and he allegedly didn’t apologize or ask to retake the test. When she asked whether he received a notification for the exam, he allegedly replied, “I don’t check my email.”

Husky reprimanded the student, telling him to check his email and ask for help if he doesn’t understand something. In the end, she sent him a referral for success coaching. Still, Husky alleged that the student seemed “pissed” off by the recommendation. “You just kind of stared and assumed I would fix it for you,” she said of her student’s reaction.

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