like, what kind of screen does your computer even have that your phone camera is getting patterns like that????

also, why did you use a camera to get this image?

the only reasons I can think of to take a photo of the screen are

1, if seeing the cursor is important, and the screenshot won't capture it

2, if you don't have a full keyboard, ie a fair few laptops. my Surface Pro 4 seems not to even have a printscreen button on its folio-cover keyboard. I lean on the snip-tool app often, and that's impossible to

catch certain things with, like open menus, because switching to it closes the menu.

...in that image you posted, however, I cannot think of a single excuse.

...actually, one more:

3, the computer can't screenshot it (as in STOP/bluescreen error screens. photo that info, if you want to keep it!)

still 100% inapplicable to that image.

There's not just Prt Sc

Windows has the damn Snipping Tool

Which you can use to create screenshots

USE THE DAMN SNIPPING TOOL

I will say this isn't the weirdest I've gotten, but it is one of the most colorful

the weirdest I've gotten was the student who submitted a phone camera picture of their computer screen for an essay assignment

I suspect it was to try and sneaky dodge the plagiarism checkers, but jokes on them, the essay was shit regardless and they got an F

This isn't screenshot-related, but still sorta relevant(ish?):
An ex-friend of mine told me at one point about how, instead of the actual document he wanted, one of his students had attached the file lock to their email to him.

that's almost impressive, but in a bad way

i've heard that a lot of students just aren't being taught Computers like we did as kids, so i can totally buy them not even knowing about print screen/snipping tool

yeah, everyone has smartphones now, so actual computers beyond the easy surface-level stuff have wrapped around to being a skill set not everyone has again

/shakes cane at the Youths