Rubrics, Assessment and eProctoring in Education

Experts say ruling in the federal case is the first of its kind.

How common is the use of remote proctoring among North American colleges and universities? Should the higher education community be concerned?

Companies offering proctoring tools that monitor students as they take online exams are now being watched themselves—by Democratic senators. Led b

Some described intense stress as remote proctors watched them take tests, worrying they would be labeled as cheats. Others said they had urinated at their desks for fear that leaving for the bathroom would hurt their chances of a post-graduation career.

Universities are digitally spying on students to make sure they don’t cheat on online tests. A whole generation could be learning to tolerate surveillance.

A data security breach involving an online exam supervising tool used by Australian universities is now being investigated.

Tests these days start by making students prove not what they know, but who they are. Historically that involves bringing some form physica

Remote proctoring and other tech-enabled solutions dominate discussion, but quite a few online students still take exams face-to-face -- posing logistical challenges for them and their institutions alike.

There is no single best way to handle proctoring for digital courses, as this community college system pilot discovered.

Thoughts about online proctoring have been taking up more of my time and energy than I’d like to admit. Rather than spending most of my time tim

Many administrators and faculty members say online exam proctoring works and is vital to expanding online programs. But some question, at what cost? 

The pandemic has driven the rapid uptake of programs that use artificial intelligence to monitor students sitting exams remotely. New research highlights the need for caution in its use.

Interviews with students, tutors, tech workers and university administrators reveal the problems with online exam monitoring systems — but also show they're unlikely to go away.

The pandemic is changing the way tests and quizzes are conducted at colleges across the country, with the rapid adoption of new tools that proponent

Cheating is not a technological problem, but a social and pedagogical problem. Technology is often blamed for creating the conditions in which cheating proliferates and is then offered as the solution to the problem it created; both claims are false.

The coronavirus pandemic has been a boon for the test proctoring industry. About half a dozen companies in the US claim their software can accurately detect and prevent cheating in online tests. Examity, HonorLock, Proctorio, ProctorU, Respondus and others have rapidly grown since colleges and universities switched to remote classes. While there’s no official tally,…

Australian students who have raised privacy concerns describe the incident involving a Canadian student as ‘freakishly disrespectful’

The rise of proctoring software to deter cheating alarms privacy advocates. Some students and professors find it invasive, too.

Thoughts about online proctoring have been taking up more of my time and energy than I’d like to admit. Rather than spending most of my time tim

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Somehow I had been blissfully unaware of Respondus Lockdown Browser until last week, when several students came to the library asking if we had this software available on our computers. If you’re not familiar with this product, Respondus is one of several LMS-integrated cheating-prevention tools. In simple terms, it shuts down a student’s Internet browser…