Problem: Article: If you want to prevent students from cheating, make them write essays that are unique to your specific class. A prompt that compares readings or specific content from your class will produce more unique essays than a general prompt. These essay prompts should be changed when teaching new classes. Students may be tempted to plagiarize if students they know have written on the prompts you are giving. If you don't want your students working on essays together, you need to make that clear before the assignment is even given. Some students will work together effectively, which can enhance the learning process. However, it can be a problem if one student just copies another student's essay. Decide whether you want students to work independently and then let them know, so that they cannot claim ignorance of your policy. You can always state that you are OK with students working together, but what they turn in must be their own work. This allows them to work together but it also requires them to do some independent work as well. Since many students are very technologically savvy, you can use that knowledge to your benefit. Have students turn in assignments through an online software program that checks it for plagiarism, such as Turnitin or PlagScan. Most universities have this type of program built into the websites that they use for students. If your school doesn't have this type of program available, discuss getting access to one with your supervisor. There tend to be more cases of cheating in the computer science department than other departments at many universities, simply because they have great resources for automated cheat checking. Students should only require roughly one week to request a regrade after work is returned. Make the deadline the same for everybody, regardless of whether they picked the assignment or exam up before your set deadline. This way, once the class ends, you are not pressured to review a ton of assignments that were returned months ago. Students, especially those near the course grade boundaries, may want to make attempts to seek extra points to raise their course grades at the end of the term.
Summary: Create unique essay prompts. Make your expectations clear. Use software that checks for plagiarism. Make regrade request deadlines soon after the assignment was returned.

Problem: Article: To calculate the area of exterior walls, measure the perimeter of the house, or the combined length of all exterior walls. Exclude porches or other "appendages." Multiply the perimeter by the height of the roofline, or the spot where the top of an exterior wall meets the roof. If your house has gables (peaked parts of the roof), add half the height of a story to the total roofline height to get a ballpark approximation of the area including gables. Most houses have a height of 9 feet (2.7m) per story. Add 4.5 feet (1.4m) to account for any gables. For example, if your house is 24 feet (7.3m) by 35 feet (11m) and 2 stories tall, the area in square feet would be (24 + 24 + 35 + 35) x (9 + 9 + 4.5) = 118 x 22.5 = 2,655. To estimate the cost of painting a room, find the total wall area of the room. Measure the perimeter of the room (the combined lengths of all sides of the room) and multiply it by the height of the ceiling. For example, if the perimeter of your room is 55 feet (17m) and the ceiling is 10 feet (3.0m) high, the area of the walls is 550 square feet (51m2). If the room has any doors and windows, measure the area of each and subtract it from the wall area for a more accurate estimate. Multiply the length of each door or window by its width to find the area. If you're going to paint your ceilings, you'll need to factor them in as well. Measure the length of the ceiling and multiply it by the width to get the total area. For example, if the ceiling is 12 feet (3.7m) by 10 feet (3.0m), the area is 120 square feet (11m2). In addition to the walls and ceilings, you may wish to paint your doors and doorframes as well as other trim, such as baseboards. To save the trouble of measuring each of these individually, you can use these tricks to get a good estimate: Most doors are 21 square feet (2.0m2), so simply multiply that area by the number of doors you plan to paint. Likewise, the average window is 15 square feet (1.4m2). While you won't be painting the windowpanes, the amount of paint you'd need to cover them should also be roughly how much you'd need to cover the window frames and door frames in a given room. To estimate the area of your baseboards, calculate the perimeter of the room and subtract 3 feet (0.91m) per door. Multiply that by the trim width of your baseboard (e.g., .5 feet (0.15m). To determine the total square footage you'd like to cover, measure all the surfaces you'd like to paint throughout the entire house, including walls, ceilings, doors, and trim. Add up the results. For example, this might yield a total area of 2,350 square feet (218m2).
Summary: Multiply the house perimeter by the roofline height to measure the exterior. Multiply a room's perimeter by the ceiling height to find the wall area. Measure the area of the ceilings if you plan to paint them. Measure any doors, windows, and trim you plan to paint. Repeat this process with every room to find the total area.

Problem: Article: It's an app icon that resembles an orange fox wrapped around a blue globe. This menu item is either in the upper-left side of the browser window (Windows) or in the left side of the menu bar at the top of the screen (Mac). A drop-down menu will appear. If you don't see this option on a Windows computer, press the Alt key first. It's at the top of the drop-down menu. This will open the Firefox bookmarks manager. This option is near the top of the bookmarks manager. Clicking it prompts a drop-down menu. You'll see this option near the middle of the drop-down menu. A new window will appear. In the window, check one of the following boxes: Microsoft Edge - Import bookmarks directly from Microsoft Edge (Windows only). Microsoft Internet Explorer - Import bookmarks directly from Internet Explorer (Windows only). Chrome - Import bookmarks directly from Google Chrome. Safari - Import bookmarks directly from Safari (Mac only). If you don't see your preferred browser here, click Cancel, click Import and Backup again, and click Import Bookmarks from HTML... instead. It's in the bottom-right side of the window. If you're importing a file instead of browser data, go to the file's location and click the file to select it. Check the boxes next to all items that you want to import from the other browser (e.g., Favorites, Cookies, etc.). If you're importing a file, skip this step. It's in the bottom-right corner of the window. Doing so signifies that the bookmarks have been imported into your Firefox browser. If you're importing a file, click Open to upload the file to Firefox. This will import all of the entailed bookmarks automatically.
Summary:
Open Firefox. Click Bookmarks. Click Show All Bookmarks. Click Import and Backup. Click Import Data from Another Browser. Select a browser. Click Next. Select items to import, then click Next. Click Finish.