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It's only one course, how could they possibly have never done an in-person exam before? They've made it to university; they would have done dozens before and during their time there.
I don't know that's a good assumption anymore. These students are probably the ones who had zoom from home "school" through formative years, with Chromebooks pushed on them before that. Schools were dropping handwriting from curriculum long before LLM/agentic forms of AI.
Heck, I was graduating high school around the time the first iPhones were coming out and I barely wrote. It was maybe 1-2 essays per school year max, not exactly enough for robust skill development. Exams were almost all multiple choice or 1-2 word short answers at most to make grading more efficient.
So I work in higher ed and this is actually occam's razor - students will take advantage of any tool they can get their hands on (which is to say cheat) at the drop of a hat. And a lot of college courses are completely honor system, especially remote classes.
Today's smart professors are using authorship tools and doing in-person exams for good reason.