If you’re a student, educator, or parent, I’m sorry. The pandemic is an ordeal for schools.
While exam time has always been tough for students, taking remote tests now often brings with it a new kind of pressure: special monitoring software that observes eye movements, listens to whispers, and tracks online activities to ensure that students, alone with their computers , do not cheat. Schools want to make sure everyone is treated fairly and no one gains an unfair advantage, but turning students’ own computers into cheat detectors — with services like ProctorU, Honorlock and Proctorio — is a strange and potentially disturbing new normal.
Sometimes the software is wrong. Some students who say they were wrongly considered cheaters have united and fought back. But what happens if it’s just one student? The New York Times is working on an article about how schools deal with automated reports of ‘suspicious’ student behavior during a test. We would like to hear about your experience.
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