Canny schoolkids are changing their Zoom name to ‘Reconnecting’ - so they never have to answer any questions from the teacher, it has emerged.
Students are creating the fake username to fool staff they are having internet problems.
Teachers see the term 'Reconnecting...' - with ellipsis to make it look look genuine - and assume the pupil isn't able to answer questions.
The trick was revealed by Chris Arnold, a DJ and radio presenter, who told the hilarious story in a tweet on Monday.
Chris, of Bristol, is married to a teacher who told him about what was happening.
He tweeted from @ChrisArnoldInc: "My wife is a teacher and apparently one kid has been changing his name to 'Reconnecting' during the Zoom lessons so that he doesn't get asked any questions. Been doing it for weeks.
"The lad doesn't need to worry about his education, he's already a bona fide genius."
He later added: "Some more info - the lad actually put 'Reconnecting...' with ellipsis to really make it look genuine.
"And another pupil tried it but misspelt the word, so was found out instantly!
"I'm off to call my mum to tell her I've gone viral."
Chris's initial tweet has already had more than 100,000 likes on twitter and led to hundreds of comments applauding the question dodging student..
Kathie Phelps commented on Facebook: "Problem with geniuses, is that they are fantastically brilliant at one thing and totally useless at everything else."
Kwan Chan added: "As long as he uses his power for good and not evil."
Others have told their own stories of children who are doing anything to avoid school work.
Laurence Knight tweeted: "My son said some of his friends had set a looped moving image of themselves staring at the computer screen as their profile pic. Also lots of kids having private chatrooms to cheat on tests or in case someone gets called on in a lesson and wasn't paying attention."
Some students are using a trick to pretend to teachers they are having internet problems
Anya said: "Last summer a kid set his profile to a photo of 3/4 of his face staring at the camera with a background of a wall in his room.
"Mandated cameras on, but you couldn’t tell if his was on or off—if you’re going to do that good of a job being awesome, I’m not going to stop you."
Robert Moffett said: "A friend's daughter has a sound app on her phone, when asked a question (she didn’t know) the others day she played the sound which sounded like interference and the teacher thought the she’d answered the question!!"
