The students think that they are so slick

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I teach high school. The students have always tried to cheat but it has now become a way of life for them post-COVID. When I write a quiz or test I always make several different versions of it. Same questions but I shuffle them around so one class can't take a picture of it and share it with other ones. I mean they can be sketchy and do it but it isn't going to help their friends in other classes because they are getting a different one. So I was grading my 8th period's cell quiz today and noticed that the students were only getting 1 or 2 questions correct out of 10. Coincidentally the letters that they put were pretty much the same as the correct answers for another class' version. When I was getting class going today I told them that I had graded the quizzes so they should take out their Chromebooks to check out how they did. There was a group of girls who absolutely bugged out when they saw their scores. I said "let me say that it is ABUNDANTLY clear who is in on the group chat and who is not. Heads up--I make multiple versions of quizzes and tests. Your friends are not helping you. I hope you have learned a valuable lesson." One girl asked if she could retake it and I was like "nope". You'd think I was a brand new teacher instead of a 24 year veteran.