Edsurge
APRIL 30, 2020
Colleges have long had offices designed to support students who have learning disabilities and to encourage broader accessibility in the classroom and beyond. On the latest installment of our monthly online discussion forum, EdSurge Live , we explored accessibility in this unusual era of emergency remote teaching.
Edsurge
MAY 27, 2021
This week one large provider of proctoring services, ProctorU, took the unusual step of announcing that it would no longer sell an AI-only proctoring product. The provost sent a letter last month first noting the change, though some engineering courses that were already using ProctorU kept doing so through the end of the semester.
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Edsurge
DECEMBER 8, 2020
Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), a group of six Democratic senators sent letters last week to three proctoring companies—ExamSoft, Proctorio and ProctorU—inquiring about the technologies they use to monitor users, how they ensure accuracy and what steps they take to protect students’ privacy. Led by U.S.
Edsurge
JULY 27, 2020
Valerie Schreiner, chief product officer at plagiarism detection service provider Turnitin, said the cost continues to decrease to hire someone to write your paper or gain remote access to a computer to take an exam. “I I have literally had students tell me I didn’t cheat—I paid them,” Schreiner said.
Edsurge
APRIL 19, 2017
When would we encourage students to give a stranger access their webcam? Second, online proctoring systems, such as ProctorU or Proctorio , replicate a practice that isn’t effective in-person. We also know that students will have access to peers, parents, friends and neighbors.
The Hechinger Report
AUGUST 7, 2020
Scott McFarland, CEO, ProctorU. Before Covid-19 forced millions of students online, one of the companies that provides that service, ProctorU, caught people cheating on fewer than 1 percent of the 340,000 exams it administered from January through March. They could not say what happened to the students who allegedly hired him.
The Hechinger Report
APRIL 26, 2021
AI alone is not a good judge of human behavior or intention,” said Jarrod Morgan, the founder and chief strategy officer at ProctorU, which schools hire to manage and observe the tests students take online. “We Jarrod Morgan, founder and chief strategy officer, ProctorU. AI alone is not a good judge of human behavior or intention.
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