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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.
Edsurge
JULY 27, 2020
Maintaining academic integrity is important, but eradicating cheating is near impossible with how quickly technology moves, said Tricia Bertram Gallant, academic integrity director at the University of California, San Diego, and board emeritus at the International Center for Academic Integrity.
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Edsurge
APRIL 19, 2017
In response, education technology companies have been quick to create products that attempt to replicate in-person teaching. Second, online proctoring systems, such as ProctorU or Proctorio , replicate a practice that isn’t effective in-person. More than that, it goes against much of what we teach students about online privacy.
Edsurge
APRIL 30, 2019
Examity’s identity verification technologies include facial recognition analysis that checks whether a test-taker’s face resembles that of the picture on their ID card. It can also use biometric keystroke technology to track patterns in how people type, which the company claims can be unique to each individual. billion in the U.S.
Edsurge
FEBRUARY 3, 2022
In 2020, the digital proctoring company Proctorio brought a lawsuit against Ian Linkletter, who was then a learning technology specialist at the University of British Columbia. At least one proctoring service, ProctorU, even said it’d stop using AI-only proctoring services last year.
Edsurge
NOVEMBER 19, 2021
At the University of Wisconsin at Madison, officials renewed their contract with an automated proctor provider , even after more than 2,000 people on campus signed a petition calling to ban the technology on campus.
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. have signed petitions calling on their colleges to stop using automated proctoring tools, meaning that the technology has become arguably the most controversial tool of the pandemic at colleges.
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