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Thwart Tech-Savvy Quiz Takers with Locked Mode

EdTech Magazine

Unfortunately, these technologies also come with their own challenges. Many schools have resorted to expensive and clunky classroom management software to help monitor behavior while students engage with technology. MORE FROM EDTECH: Check out how technology can help teachers mitigate bad behavior in the classroom.

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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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Digital Testing Safeguards

Tech Helpful

In 2013 I wrote my first blog post on managing technology usage in the classroom. The fear of off task behavior still seems to be one of the main reasons teachers are hesitant to use technology five years later. It starts with intentional boundaries being placed on students anytime technology is in their hands from pre-K forward.

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How Colleges Can Improve Accessibility In Remote Courses

Edsurge

They've been really receptive to learning new technologies and being very patient with us as we're trying to assist all of them. 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.

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What is Cheating in the Digital Age?

Tech Helpful

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. To me, even the free version is one step beyond the red squiggly underlines of word processing software.

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

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Machine Learning and Analytics – By combining Google Cloud's advanced software tools and cutting edge TensorFlow Processing Units with Illuminate's learning data, Illuminate's ability to analyze big data sets and drive key predictive insights into student learning and performance will be enhanced. 2) Secure browsing during testing. (3)