College students are learning hard lessons about anti-cheating software

Re:College students are learning hard lessons about anti-che... by RegnisGnaw on Monday November 30, 2020 @07:09PM (#25260717)

The problem is COVID. You can’t have a large gathering. So everyone is doing their exam at home.

Please tell me how you would structure such an exam without a proctoring system as described.

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Re:College students are learning hard lessons about anti-che... by bzbarsky on Monday November 30, 2020 @10:52PM (#25262114)

One option, if you have a reasonably low student-to-instructor ratio: make it an oral 1-1 exam for each student. A video call with the instructor and the student; you ask questions, they answer. If you have 20-ish students, it will eat up half a work-week or so, which is more work than grading 20 exam papers, but not _that_ much more.

Of course if you have 50 students per instructor this is not going to work...

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Re:College students are learning hard lessons about anti-che... by dghlsakjg on Monday November 30, 2020 @07:42PM (#25260907)

It depends on the subject. I studied computer science and econ.

Computer science: Solve a complex problem in code. Include a git history. Be ready to defend your program design if I get suspicious.

Econ: Long answer question: Pick 5 concepts that we learned about that you think are most important. Explain them as you would to a ten year old.

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