Comment on Pearson complaining about using Linux to access my course material
lightnsfw@reddthat.com 4 weeks ago
What “Key features” from an educational course could possibly require windows? It’s spying on you.
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.
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.
Yea but that takes work, and we’d like, have to pay our teachers more.
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.
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.
all that stuff is rendered useless by having a second computer.
TPM2.0 DRM crap?
kiagam@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
They just don’t want to support it to save dev time/money
dustyData@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Oh yes, the very expensive Dev time cost of zero, because it is a fucking website.