• lightnsfw@reddthat.com
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    8 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 hours 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.

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            19 minutes ago

            They weren’t donating their time. Writing tests was part of their job. They just made the questions a lot harder and more based on practical knowledge. Rather than just recalling information found in the book you had to apply the information to answer the questions.

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      6 hours 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.