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The Great Learning Management System Debate: Featuring Canvas, Schoology and Google Classroom

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Coupled with a variety of added benefits, each LMS comes with its own positives and negatives. Schoology is an LMS that has the visual appeal of a social media application like Facebook, which provides students with a platform they are comfortable in. All of this can be used to truly differentiate how and what, students access.

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Digital Testing Safeguards

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Use Canvas LMS? Access Codes - Codes serve as a safeguard that students cannot access exams when you are not ready for them to access it. By choosing to filter the IP address you can prevent students from possibly accessing or finishing an exam at home without a proctor. Easy access is eliminated.

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What is Cheating in the Digital Age?

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For instance, at our school, we use the LMS Canvas but it doesn't inherently lock a student into a quiz tab while taking a quiz so we have bought the "hack" known as Respondus Lockdown Browser as an add-on to do this. Access to information makes some tests seem irrelevant at best. Everyone else is doing it. And there is the rub.