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Automated Proctoring Swept In During Pandemic. It’s Likely to Stick Around, Despite Concerns

Edsurge

Despite all that opposition, and the fact that colleges are returning to in-person teaching, sales of proctoring software have been robust. Still others have pointed out that savvy students can still find ways to get around the snooping software. And some students complained about putting the software on their computers.

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A Proctoring Company Tried to Sue an Edtech Critic. He’s Fighting Back in Court.

Edsurge

The videos, which had been posted by the company as “unlisted” on Youtube, described how Proctorio’s software works. At least one proctoring service, ProctorU, even said it’d stop using AI-only proctoring services last year. Proctorio has alleged that Linkletter violated its copyright.

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Remote Proctoring Software – Know how it works, features, Pros & Cons!

Think Exam

Online exam proctoring software has gained a lot of fame ever since the COVID-19 lockdown phase. The post Remote Proctoring Software – Know how it works, features, Pros & Cons!

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From admissions to teaching to grading, AI is infiltrating higher education

The Hechinger Report

Now, simple AI-driven tools like these chatbots, plagiarism-detecting software and apps to check spelling and grammar are being joined by new, more powerful – and controversial – applications that answer academic questions, grade assignments, recommend classes and even teach. Jarrod Morgan, founder and chief strategy officer, ProctorU.

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School Work and Surveillance

Hack Education

For a long time, arguably the best known anti-cheating technology was the plagiarism detection software TurnItIn. So they turned some of their research on pattern-matching of brainwaves to create a piece of software that would identify patterns in texts. Anti-cheating software isn't just about plagiarism, of course.

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Robot Teachers, Racist Algorithms, and Disaster Pedagogy

Hack Education

For a long time, arguably the best known anti-cheating technology was the plagiarism detection software TurnItIn. So they turned some of their research on pattern-matching of brainwaves to create a piece of software that would identify patterns in texts. Anti-cheating software isn't just about plagiarism, of course.

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How Remote Proctoring has upgraded the E-Learning Industry?

Think Exam

With the sudden rise in demand for E-Learning platforms during COVID, remote proctoring software started to gain its much-awaited recognition. Remote proctoring has been available from the past few years but it wasn’t acknowledged on a wider basis.