How to Spot a CHEAT-ah

When Shapegrams began, I left my original drawing on the canvas. I encouraged students to ungroup my drawing to inspect the shapes to discover how it was built. Unfortunately, this allowed students to copy parts of the drawing instead of drawing the shapes themselves.

Now the original drawing in a Shapegram is an image of what was drawn with shapes. This makes it impossible to copy shapes from the original. It was just too tempting for learners to cheat by copying shapes from the original drawings.

Sneaky students may try to pass off a copy of the image of the original as their own work. That’s why I authored this comic. I want teachers to know how to immediately see if a picture is drawn with shapes or if it’s an image.

I think teachers should share this comic with their students, letting them know that copying and pasting (or screenshotting) the original picture isn’t a great option. Cheating can be easily spotted!