Edsurge
NOVEMBER 19, 2021
Despite all that opposition, and the fact that colleges are returning to in-person teaching, sales of proctoring software have been robust. Still others have pointed out that savvy students can still find ways to get around the snooping software. And some students complained about putting the software on their computers.
Edsurge
FEBRUARY 3, 2022
The videos, which had been posted by the company as “unlisted” on Youtube, described how Proctorio’s software works. At least one proctoring service, ProctorU, even said it’d stop using AI-only proctoring services last year. Proctorio has alleged that Linkletter violated its copyright.
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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.
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. The more recent rise of automated proctoring tools replace those humans with software robots, thereby reducing the cost. Online proctoring is not new. Jesse Stommel (@Jessifer) November 12, 2020.
The Hechinger Report
APRIL 26, 2021
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. Jarrod Morgan, founder and chief strategy officer, ProctorU.
Edsurge
APRIL 30, 2020
So one of the challenges we've really been dealing with is test security because of course everyone wants to go right to ProctorU and have that live proctoring experience. Do they have access to the software they need? For that,] a text-to-speech software saves us. And likewise, speech-to-text software saves us.
Hack Education
APRIL 30, 2020
For a long time, arguably the best known anti-cheating technology was the plagiarism detection software TurnItIn. So they turned some of their research on pattern-matching of brainwaves to create a piece of software that would identify patterns in texts. Anti-cheating software isn't just about plagiarism, of course.
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