Comment on Pearson complaining about using Linux to access my course material
lightnsfw@reddthat.com 3 weeks agoIf 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.
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.
Nope as you have to show the room before the exam starts andusing the second computer shows up in the webcam. It’s what the webcam if for.
So what they’re going to make you disassemble your personal space if you happen to have a PC on the same desk you use for your school laptop?
misteloct@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Yea but that takes work, and we’d like, have to pay our teachers more.
lightnsfw@reddthat.com 3 weeks 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.
misteloct@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Then you’re lucky they had the freedom to donate their time like that.
lightnsfw@reddthat.com 3 weeks 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.