Protect student privacy: ban eproctoring

Re:Protect student privacy: ban eproctoring by ModernMech on Friday July 09, 2021 @10:37AM (#27784095)

> I had a few professors who made exams ridiculously hard with strict time limits, just because they expected people to cheat. So the exams were designed in a way they cheating was the only way to get through it, which just encouraged more people to cheat.

That’s such a strange response to that expectation. For the class I teach, I made my exams open book, open notes, open internet and gave them a extended time to work on the exam. If they’re gonna cheat, they’re gonna cheat. Don’t fight the tide. But the questions I asked where analysis/synthesis questions that couldn’t simply be looked up, and student performance was on a bell curve with a 80 average (in line with previous years). I think a lot of professors need to embrace the situation and adapt rather than forcing a police state on students during exam times.

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Re:Protect student privacy: ban eproctoring by TravisHusky on Friday July 09, 2021 @04:59PM (#27788432)

I had a couple professors do exactly what you did and it was much more enjoyable. I feel like I leaned a lot more in classes like that, and now that I have a real engineering job I have realized this style is a lot more accurate to what the real world is like.

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