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Even in the case of computers, where there is “individualized attention” on the part of the software, there are plenty of workarounds.

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It’s like saying that a human proctor can prevent a room full of students from cheating because they’re looking at them. The idea that they can prevent someone from cheating by using only their webcam (or in the case of Proctortrack, even an executable file that has some kind of computer scanner) is absolutely ridiculous. The third and most pressing issue is the unrealistic claims of these companies. Memorization is worthless in the 21st century, unless you’re preparing for a situation so dire that you need the answer faster than you’d be able to type the question. Teachers should be giving students problems that mimic those they would find in real life, and whose solutions are complex and have multiple viewpoints. But for all other cases, searching online should not only be allowed, it should be encouraged. Now, that being said, there are certainly cases where students need to be tested in such a way as to ensure that they actually have the knowledge in their brains – and in those cases, test in person, or come up with a solution better than this awful software. It’s like in middle school when your teacher made you write out math by hand, claiming that you won’t have a calculator with you at all times in the real world – I do, it’s my phone. There is absolutely no shame in reaching out to a trusted expert for advice in these situations, or even just Googling an answer and seeing if it works. In real life, you’ll run into plenty of issues on a tight deadline, where you’ll be looked to for answers.

In some ways, they’re correct – but the issue is their definition of cheating, not the internet itself.

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From student fees to huge bills for colleges (and, if they’re state schools, for the taxpayers), these companies that guarantee no one using their software is cheating on exams seem like easy solutions to the fears of academics, who say that moving exams to the internet will cause rampant cheating. The second issue is that despite the obvious flaws in this system (in fact, in any system at all that says it can do something like this, like Examity), the company that makes this software will undoubtedly rake in the millions for their “solution”. I’m not saying I have a better solution to make sure that students don’t cheat on online exams – but this solution is intrusive, and the “Big Brother”-ness of it is so crazy it sounds like it must be a joke (like knuckle scanning, for instance). From top to bottom, none of it really makes sense – it’s incredibly invasive: it tracks your eye motion through your webcam, it scans your knuckles as some weird form of identification, it uses facial recognition to make sure that you’re not someone else – and above all, it can be bypassed rather easily.

The problem? First, the whole thing is a ridiculous waste of money. This software purports to be able to make sure a student isn’t cheating on an exam, using various methods like peering out of your web cam.

Click here for more information.Ī friend of mine recently signed up for an online class that requires software called Proctortrack.

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Update #2: On December 11th, 2020, I was a guest for a second panel discussion. Update #1: On November 19th, 2020, I was a panel guest of the International Center for Academic Integrity.

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