Edsurge
APRIL 19, 2017
However, it is in direct conflict with my desire to avoid online proctoring tools, which mimic poor in-person assessment practices. Some examples include learning management systems, lecture capture tools, and early online meeting systems. More than that, it goes against much of what we teach students about online privacy.
Edsurge
JULY 27, 2020
Turnitin has seen use of its tools grow during COVID-19 and remote instruction. 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. Online tools and honor codes alone don’t prevent cheating either.
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Edsurge
NOVEMBER 19, 2021
The most controversial new tech tool for colleges since the start of the pandemic is automated proctoring, which aims to detect cheating on online exams by using algorithms that watch students via their webcam and look for suspicious patterns of behavior—often sending clips of questionable moments to professors for later review.
Edsurge
FEBRUARY 3, 2022
At least one proctoring service, ProctorU, even said it’d stop using AI-only proctoring services last year. When the suit was brought, in 2020, it gave critics of edtech companies pause to consider that lawsuits could be an effective corporate tool for silencing them. But it hasn’t stopped criticisms.
The Hechinger Report
APRIL 26, 2021
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. Credit: Jackie Mader for The Hechinger Report.
Edsurge
APRIL 30, 2019
Such are the tools developed and offered by Examity , a provider of exam proctoring tools used by colleges and universities, assessment groups, professional certification boards and employers. Nor will these tools ever fully replace human proctors, who are still best able to make calls on edge cases. billion in the U.S.
Hack Education
APRIL 30, 2020
Ed-tech is not a tool that exists only in the service of improving teaching and learning, although that's very much how it gets talked about. Tools have politics. Well-known names in the industry include ProctorU, Proctorio, Examity, Verificient. So grain of salt and my apologies and all that. Pedagogy doesn't occur in a vacuum.
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