Students are very simply NOT doing the work that is require to learn.
Before LLMs, homeworks were a great way to force students to approach the material. Students did not have any other way to get an answer, so they were forced to study and come up with an answer to the homeworks. They could always copy from classmates, but that was considered quite negatively.
LLMs change this completely. Any kind of homework you could assign undergraduates classes are now completed in less than 1 second, for free, by LLMs.
We start to see PERFECT homeworks submitted by students who could not get a 50% grade in classes. Overall grades went down.
This is a common pattern with all the educators I have been talking with. Not a single one has a different experience.
And, I do understand students. They are busy, they may not feel engaged by all the classes, and LLMs are a way too fast solution for getting homeworks done and free up some time.
But it is not helping them.
Solutions like this are to force students to put the correct amount of work in their education.
And I would love if all of this would not be necessary. But it is.
I come from an engineering school in Europe - we simply did not have homework. We had frontal classes and one big final exams. Courses in which only 10% of the class would pass were not uncommon.
But today education, especially in the US, is different.
This is not forcing student to use LLMs. We are trying to force student to think and do the right thing for them.
And I know it sounds very paternalistic - but if you have better ideas, I am open.
