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The Great Learning Management System Debate: Featuring Canvas, Schoology and Google Classroom

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With personalized learning at the forefront of many school initiatives, the use of learning management systems has become a hot commodity among schools. With so many choices on where to build your digital classroom, the questions often arise: “Why do I need a learning management system? And which one do I choose?”.

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

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Some say the systems often lead to false-positives, add stress to the test-taking process and invade privacy. They used a feature of the Blackboard learning-management system to randomize questions for an exam in an introductory chemistry course. “We Rethinking the Test Those opposed to automated proctoring cite several objections.

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What is Cheating in the Digital Age?

Tech Helpful

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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How Colleges Can Improve Accessibility In Remote Courses

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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. Jennifer Albat: I feel our institution has done a really great job. We're already in a stressful situation.

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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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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.