• lightnsfw@reddthat.com
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    5 hours ago

    What “Key features” from an educational course could possibly require windows? It’s spying on you.

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      2 hours ago

      Does it have online exams? Pearsons shitty anti cheat stuff they use for proctoring is windows and mac only.

      Having seen how much people cheat including using someone else using screensharing to proxy the exam for you I cannot blame them for wanting to do this, but I do blame them for not wanting to support Linux properly.

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        2 hours ago

        If they’re going to have online exams they need to just accept that cheating is going to happen. There’s a million ways to do that in an environment you control. Make the exams open book but make it harder to account for the fact that the students have access to reference materials.

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          7 minutes ago

          So, in principle, I agree, but it doesn’t help with proxying, or for example, one I saw this week of someone using AI voice assistant to answer questions. Or people copying and pasting from online groups.

          Their shitty software monitors all the connected devices, running processes, and webcam. That’s still needed for open book.

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            1 hour ago

            Not really a lot of the teachers at the tech school I went to did it that way and I know for a fact they weren’t getting paid well at all.