Noah Valentine thought he’d get caught when he started using bot extensions to automatically join his online classes for him. But as the weeks stretched on from December to February, none of the teachers in his program noticed he wasn’t really there.
“There was a time period where things got really dark and I just didn’t have any motivation,” said the 15-year-old Edmonton student.
Noah said he didn’t build any software himself; he just combined multiple bots so that his computer would join each class, say “hi” when his name was called for attendance, and then sign off when the class was over.
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