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How Colleges Can Improve Accessibility In Remote Courses

Edsurge

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

Edsurge

Companies including ProctorU have long offered human test-watchers who sit in call centers and look in on test-takers through their webcams. The more recent rise of automated proctoring tools replace those humans with software robots, thereby reducing the cost. This might be a good opportunity to rethink assessment,” he says.

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

The Hechinger Report

Now, simple AI-driven tools like these chatbots, plagiarism-detecting software and apps to check spelling and grammar are being joined by new, more powerful – and controversial – applications that answer academic questions, grade assignments, recommend classes and even teach. David Weiss, co-founder, Assessment Systems.

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School Work and Surveillance

Hack Education

That is, we are less likely to use ed-tech to rethink assignments or assessments than we are to use ed-tech more closely scrutinize student behavior. For a long time, arguably the best known anti-cheating technology was the plagiarism detection software TurnItIn. Anti-cheating software isn't just about plagiarism, of course.

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Remote Proctoring Software – Know how it works, features, Pros & Cons!

Think Exam

Online exam proctoring software has gained a lot of fame ever since the COVID-19 lockdown phase. When the time started getting rough for the educational sector then live classes and online assessments turned out to be the most useful source to keep the academic requirements on track.

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WHAT’S NEW: NEW TOOLS FOR SCHOOLS

techlearning

Software & Online ALMA TECHNOLOGIES, INC. CENTRALREACH PK-12 ( www.centralreach.com/industry/pk-12-education ) CentralReach launches CentralReach PK-12, a collaborative and data-driven software for special education. In addition, Alma will continue to provide its own set of robust reporting tools to meet many needs and budgets.

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Online Proctoring is Trending and here is All You Must Know!

Think Exam

Online Proctoring is an advanced level technology designed to enable the candidates to attempt an exam online from any remote location, all the while assuring the reliability of the test. In the beginning, the test-takers need to verify their authenticity after which they are monitored in real-time through webcam.

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