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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. The provost sent a letter last month first noting the change, though some engineering courses that were already using ProctorU kept doing so through the end of the semester.
Edsurge
DECEMBER 8, 2020
Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), a group of six Democratic senators sent letters last week to three proctoring companies—ExamSoft, Proctorio and ProctorU—inquiring about the technologies they use to monitor users, how they ensure accuracy and what steps they take to protect students’ privacy. Led by U.S.
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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.
The Hechinger Report
AUGUST 7, 2020
Scott McFarland, CEO, ProctorU. Before Covid-19 forced millions of students online, one of the companies that provides that service, ProctorU, caught people cheating on fewer than 1 percent of the 340,000 exams it administered from January through March. They could not say what happened to the students who allegedly hired him.
Edsurge
FEBRUARY 3, 2022
At least one proctoring service, ProctorU, even said it’d stop using AI-only proctoring services last year. Student groups and even some colleges have argued that the services violate student privacy, cause false-positive accusations of cheating, and rely on racially biased algorithms.
Edsurge
APRIL 19, 2017
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. When would we encourage students to give a stranger access their webcam?
Edsurge
NOVEMBER 19, 2021
Despite all that opposition, and the fact that colleges are returning to in-person teaching, sales of proctoring software have been robust.
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