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

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Despite all that opposition, and the fact that colleges are returning to in-person teaching, sales of proctoring software have been robust. Some say the systems often lead to false-positives, add stress to the test-taking process and invade privacy. And some students complained about putting the software on their computers.

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Digital Testing Safeguards

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Filter IP Addresses - Many learning management systems have the ability to only allow a quiz/exam to be taken on campus. This document gives our teachers an overview on how to use Canvas with the Respondus lockdown browser as well as showing them how students will use the software depending on which device they are using.

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How Colleges Can Improve Accessibility In Remote Courses

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So we were able to extend our Respondus Monitor license, which monitors the students during an exam. Do they have access to the software they need? For that,] a text-to-speech software saves us. And likewise, speech-to-text software saves us. However, that is obviously very costly. Physical accessibility.

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What is Cheating in the Digital Age?

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Here is my opinion why it seems more acceptable to students to work the system: Hacking is acceptable and seen as a skill. For instance, at our school, we use the LMS Canvas but it doesn't inherently lock a student into a quiz tab while taking a quiz so we have bought the "hack" known as Respondus Lockdown Browser as an add-on to do this.

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Illuminate Education Joins Google for Education Partner Program as a Premier Partner

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Integration of Google Classroom – Illuminate users will enjoy single sign-on, direct links to Illuminate’s Data & Assessment platform within Google Classroom’s interface, and syncs from Illuminate to Google Cloud around gradebook and assessment results to provide greater interoperability between the two systems.