Yeah, I had them my professors didn’t let us use them. Trying to sneak a look would lead to cheating and risk expulsion if caught. And cameras in some classes and multiple people like TAs walking around.
If laptop or tablets were used for exam taking they made us use programs like examsoft that locked down the hardware so you couldn’t access internet, files, or other programs until you finished the exam.
Or it was open note, open laptop, internet, so professors didn’t care at all what was used.
So all I see is zero effort of exam proctoring and then being baffled that students are cheating despite making the environment very easy to do so. It’s like you are afraid to take away or restrict electronic usage during exams or the concept is so foreign to you.
Ah, if you do cameras on. I don’t do live tests anymore anyway, but even with cameras, too many of my students are low income so their connections are crap. Having dealt with that myself, it’s just unfair to do cameras on.
I was talking about at location courses. Those had cameras in the rooms people were testing in addition to exam proctors walking around.
Online courses are just a whole different affair with it being at home, and just a lost cause at trying to prevent cheating. Ones I took were more project based, since professors knew people would find ways to have access to everything at home so little point in telling people what is and isn’t allowed.
Students have phones and tablets. Lol
Yeah, I had them my professors didn’t let us use them. Trying to sneak a look would lead to cheating and risk expulsion if caught. And cameras in some classes and multiple people like TAs walking around.
If laptop or tablets were used for exam taking they made us use programs like examsoft that locked down the hardware so you couldn’t access internet, files, or other programs until you finished the exam.
Or it was open note, open laptop, internet, so professors didn’t care at all what was used.
So all I see is zero effort of exam proctoring and then being baffled that students are cheating despite making the environment very easy to do so. It’s like you are afraid to take away or restrict electronic usage during exams or the concept is so foreign to you.
Ah, if you do cameras on. I don’t do live tests anymore anyway, but even with cameras, too many of my students are low income so their connections are crap. Having dealt with that myself, it’s just unfair to do cameras on.
Oh you are talking about online courses?
I was talking about at location courses. Those had cameras in the rooms people were testing in addition to exam proctors walking around.
Online courses are just a whole different affair with it being at home, and just a lost cause at trying to prevent cheating. Ones I took were more project based, since professors knew people would find ways to have access to everything at home so little point in telling people what is and isn’t allowed.