Or how about we actually collectively learn a lesson from this - if your assignments just ask people to generically regurgitate info, don’t be surprised that 90% of students lose interest and see it for what it is, pointless busywork.

I genuinely believe I had many excellent learning experiences at university, and I can assure you none of them were the times I had to re-write course info and hand it back to them in order to check off a box.

Maybe, if one student does something they might be wrong, but if 90% of students do something, perhaps the assignment is wrong? Doubling down and saying “we’ll force them to do it by hand then!” Is rather blindly missing the point here no?