Weird text in Canvas open ended answer activity

[Ashank]

Has anyone seen this? I teach Spanish, and I see this frequently in this student's answers when there is an open ended section. Is this indicative of translator usage?:

• Add to Phrasebook
  • No word lists for Spanish -> English...
  • Create a new word list...
• Copy

• Add to Phrasebook
  • No word lists for Spanish -> English...
  • Create a new word list...
• Copy

• Add to Phrasebook
  • No word lists for Spanish -> English...
  • Create a new word list...
• Copy

• Add to Phrasebook
  • No word lists for Spanish -> English...
  • Create a new word list...
• Copy

• Add to Phrasebook
  • No word lists for Spanish -> English...
  • Create a new word list...
• Copy

• Add to Phrasebook
  • No word lists for Spanish -> English...
  • Create a new word list...
• Copy

• Add to Phrasebook
  • No word lists for Spanish -> English...
  • Create a new word list...
• Copy

• Add to Phrasebook
  • No word lists for Spanish -> English...
  • Create a new word list...
• Copy

• Add to Phrasebook
  • No word lists for Spanish -> English...
  • Create a new word list...
• Copy

• Add to Phrasebook
  • No word lists for Spanish -> English...
  • Create a new word list...
• Copy

• Add to Phrasebook
  • No word lists for Spanish -> English...
  • Create a new word list...
• Copy

• Add to Phrasebook
  • No word lists for Spanish -> English...
  • Create a new word list...
• Copy

• Add to Phrasebook
  • No word lists for Spanish -> English...
  • Create a new word list...
• Copy

• Add to Phrasebook
  • No word lists for Spanish -> English...
  • Create a new word list...
• Copy

• Add to Phrasebook
  • No word lists for Spanish -> English...
  • Create a new word list...
• Copy

• Add to Phrasebook
  • No word lists for Spanish -> English...
  • Create a new word list...
• Copy

[Steven_S]

I would suspect that this student is copying and pasting something from a website offering a phrasebook with lists translating common phrases from Spanish to English and has mistakenly copied some formatting near the rest of what they have copied.  There are proctoring programs such as respondus lockdown browser and proctorio that are very effective at blocking students from copying and pasting.