Edsurge
MAY 27, 2021
This week one large provider of proctoring services, ProctorU, took the unusual step of announcing that it would no longer sell an AI-only proctoring product. Officials for the company also said they found that reviewing suspicious clips sent by the AI system was a burden that professors did not have adequate time for.
Edsurge
FEBRUARY 3, 2022
In 2020, the digital proctoring company Proctorio brought a lawsuit against Ian Linkletter, who was then a learning technology specialist at the University of British Columbia. The videos, which had been posted by the company as “unlisted” on Youtube, described how Proctorio’s software works. Don't be a Proctorio partner.
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Edsurge
NOVEMBER 19, 2021
Just in the past few months, a law student sued an automated proctoring company , students have complained about their use in student newspaper editorials and professors have compared them to Big Brother. Despite all that opposition, and the fact that colleges are returning to in-person teaching, sales of proctoring software have been robust.
The Hechinger Report
APRIL 26, 2021
Humans always make the final calls, these colleges and the AI companies say, but AI can help them narrow the field. A company presentation shows students being scored on a five-point scale in areas such as openness, motivation, agreeableness and “neuroticism.”. Jarrod Morgan, founder and chief strategy officer, ProctorU.
Edsurge
JULY 27, 2020
Preventing cheating becomes a game of cat-and-mouse, said Ashley Norris, chief academic officer at ProctorU, a company that provides secure live and automated online proctoring services. But Schreiner has not seen data that shows an increase in cheating since schools started closing.
Edsurge
APRIL 30, 2019
Historically that involves bringing some form physical identification, but increasingly companies and institutions are turning to face recognition, fingerprinting and voice biometrics. The Boston-based company passed its own test of sorts today: securing a $90 million investment from private equity firm Great Hill Partners.
Edsurge
APRIL 19, 2017
In response, education technology companies have been quick to create products that attempt to replicate in-person teaching. Second, online proctoring systems, such as ProctorU or Proctorio , replicate a practice that isn’t effective in-person. More than that, it goes against much of what we teach students about online privacy.
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