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Edsurge
JULY 27, 2020
As more colleges and school districts prepare to resume remote instruction for the fall, educators may worry how to prevent cheating when assignments and exams are held online. That’s why, instead of punishment, educators might consider incidents of cheating as a teachable moment. Students don’t see exams as part of learning, he added.
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
APRIL 19, 2017
However, it is in direct conflict with my desire to avoid online proctoring tools, which mimic poor in-person assessment practices. This issue arises because many faculty that choose to teach online refuse to do so if they can’t rely on the same methods of assessment that they use in their in-person courses.
The Hechinger Report
APRIL 26, 2021
AI has long been quietly embedding itself into higher education in ways like these, often to save money — a need that’s been heightened by pandemic-related budget squeezes. Among those are predicting how well students might do if admitted and assessing their financial need. David Weiss, co-founder, Assessment Systems.
Edsurge
APRIL 30, 2019
Such are the tools developed and offered by Examity , a provider of exam proctoring tools used by colleges and universities, assessment groups, professional certification boards and employers. Online education companies, including Coursera and Duolingo, also use Examity to verify the identities of students who earn certificates.
Edsurge
NOVEMBER 13, 2020
Companies including ProctorU have long offered human test-watchers who sit in call centers and look in on test-takers through their webcams. Instead of reserving them for high-stakes assessments like final exams, some professors now use these tools for routine work like weekly quizzes. Online proctoring is not new.
Edsurge
APRIL 30, 2020
But now that so many students are taking courses remotely, in improvised environments that may not be especially conducive to learning, it may take some extra effort to redesign instruction, assignments and assessments to address everyone’s needs. And most of them have been willing to compromise and think about other ways to do assessment.
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