Timeline for How can I distribute an exam to a large class without a lockdown broswer such as Respondus/Proctorio?
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| Jul 8 at 12:37 | comment | added | Xander Henderson♦ | As I said above, my college does not maintain classroom sets of computers. It doesn't make sense to keep several hundred machines around when they would likely only be used two or three times per year. And yes, it is very much on the honor system; but I also think that a lot of instructors are overzealous about cheating, and overstate the effect that cheating has. Like I said above, the majority of students who cheat are bad at it. | |
| Jul 8 at 12:16 | comment | added | Therac | @XanderHenderson But if you have enough properly secured enterprise laptops for the class, why would you want students to take tests on their own devices, which by definition can't be secured against cheating? It's an honor system with BYOD either way. | |
| Jul 8 at 11:54 | comment | added | Xander Henderson♦ | Why do you assume that cost is the issue? My institution has many laptops which students can check out from the library to use, but most students would rather use their own, so we don't have full classroom sets---it would be a waste of money. | |
| Jul 8 at 0:06 | comment | added | Therac | @XanderHenderson Just how broke can a college in the US be? I've been in a lot of third-world countries, and except for a few LDCs that lack consistent electric supply, there's always been at least enough desktop computers to host tests for a class. | |
| Jul 7 at 13:50 | comment | added | Xander Henderson♦ | @Therac Often, students are bringing their own machines. It simply isn't realistic to expect all of them to put those machines into a "safe" or "locked down" status. It just isn't practical. I also really don't feel like it is worth it. There is a Duning-Krueger effect in play here: those students who don't know the material also generally lack the skills to cheat effectively. I tend to prefer to tone down the stress level during exams---if students are less stressed out about how important an exam is, they are less likely to attempt to cheat. | |
| Jul 7 at 8:29 | comment | added | Therac | @XanderHenderson True, ideally this is something you'd have the sysadmin do. | |
| Jul 7 at 8:29 | history | edited | Therac | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jul 7 at 1:15 | comment | added | A.Magnus | Thank you. Let me look at its possibility. | |
| Jul 6 at 17:12 | comment | added | Xander Henderson♦ | This assumes that the instructor has administrator/ root access to all of the machines being used for testing. This send like an unreasonable assumption in many / most cases. | |
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| S Jul 6 at 14:18 | history | answered | Therac | CC BY-SA 4.0 |