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Online Cheating Isn’t Going Away. Use It as a Teachable Moment for Students and Educators

Edsurge

As more colleges and school districts prepare to resume remote instruction for the fall, educators may worry how to prevent cheating when assignments and exams are held online. The people who know how to cheat know how to sell it,” she said.

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?Online Courses Shouldn’t Use Remote Proctoring Tools. Here’s Why.

Edsurge

Rather than spending most of my time time helping people become better online teachers, I have been figuring out how to meet two competing objectives: increase online course offerings and avoid adopting an online proctoring system. Thoughts about online proctoring have been taking up more of my time and energy than I’d like to admit.

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School Work and Surveillance

Hack Education

Teachers, of course, know how to shift this physical setting — move the chairs around, for example. Well-known names in the industry include ProctorU, Proctorio, Examity, Verificient. Teachers might be less adept or even able to do the same when the classroom setting is digital.).

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Robot Teachers, Racist Algorithms, and Disaster Pedagogy

Hack Education

I'm not an advocate for ed-tech; I'm not here to sell you on a new flashcard app or show you how to use the learning management system more effectively. Well-known names in the industry include ProctorU, Proctorio, and Examity. Not everyone experiences Brandeis the same way. Me, I write about education technology for a living.

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Online Proctoring is Trending and here is All You Must Know!

Think Exam

Online Proctoring is an advanced level technology designed to enable the candidates to attempt an exam online from any remote location, all the while assuring the reliability of the test. In the beginning, the test-takers need to verify their authenticity after which they are monitored in real-time through webcam.

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Pushback Is Growing Against Automated Proctoring Services. But So Is Their Use

Edsurge

Companies including ProctorU have long offered human test-watchers who sit in call centers and look in on test-takers through their webcams. To that idea, Linkletter countered: “If it’s easy enough to game your product just by knowing how it works, then it’s not very effective at what it’s supposed to do,” he says. Proctorio is afraid.

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How Colleges Can Improve Accessibility In Remote Courses

Edsurge

They dug into the principles of universal design for learning, how instructions can use rubrics to empower students to demonstrate knowledge in many different ways, and how to break up class sessions to make it easier for everyone to participate fully. However, that is obviously very costly.

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