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Amid Objections to Automated Proctoring, One Company Abandons the Practice

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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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Online Cheating Isn’t Going Away. Use It as a Teachable Moment for Students and Educators

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Preventing cheating becomes a game of cat-and-mouse, said Ashley Norris, chief academic officer at ProctorU, a company that provides secure live and automated online proctoring services. We need to continue to emphasize to students the importance of the assessments. Students don’t see exams as part of learning, he added.

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?Online Courses Shouldn’t Use Remote Proctoring Tools. Here’s Why.

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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.

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As Online Learning Grows, So Will Proctors. Case in Point: Examity’s $90M Deal

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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. Other providers of similar services include ProctorU, Proctorio, PearsonVUE and Krypterion. billion in the U.S.

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From admissions to teaching to grading, AI is infiltrating higher education

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Among those are predicting how well students might do if admitted and assessing their financial need. David Weiss, co-founder, Assessment Systems. Turnitin, best known for checking for plagiarism, also sells AI language comprehension products to assess subjective written work.

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Pushback Is Growing Against Automated Proctoring Services. But So Is Their Use

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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.

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How Colleges Can Improve Accessibility In Remote Courses

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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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