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eben-ezer | 5 years ago | on: Students have to jump through absurd hoops to use exam monitoring software

I'm currently taking online classes at a program which has had entirely online offerings for over a decade. Out of the 10+ classes I've taken so far, I'm currently enrolled in the only one that has required a lockdown browser (I haven't taken any tests yet, so I'm not sure what that will be like). Up until now, all the classes just had me sign something saying I didn't cheat. Also, usually the test was designed in such a way as to make it more difficult to cheat. About half of the classes, the tests are open-note. They combat the effectiveness of cheating by making the time of the test short enough to where if you don't know the information, you won't b able to look up more than 25% of the questions before time runs out. I can see how that wouldn't work for all classes, and admittedly I haven't taken any Math or Science courses so it may be different in that arena, but it seems like they have decided to take a different route than the schools mentioned in the article, and presumably haven't had any issues.

eben-ezer | 5 years ago | on: Adobe to remove Flash Player from web site after December 2020

My wife is currently in didactic year of PA school. When they went remote, there was a period of about half a day when they told all of the students they had to turn on their cameras (but not their mic) via Zoom during every test the rest of the year. They changed their minds quickly when they realized most of the students were not on board with it and most of the faculty didn't want to have to 'proctor' over Zoom.
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