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Online exams have become a lucrative business for companies selling test answers. Students also use various techniques to cheat during these exams, including forbidden materials like sticky notes and hiding extra devices such as smartphones, calculators or Google Glasses with formula storage capabilities.
Remote proctoring software can often detect these devices, leading to expulsion from exams for violations. But some students are finding creative ways to bypass detection tools.
1. Organize Your Space
ProctorU is an online exam proctoring platform that offers students a range of services for taking exams at home, including multiple techniques of cheating to try to pass an exam – such as having friends present or using special software – without ProctorU detecting these attempts at cheating. There are some effective solutions to avoid cheating as well, such as organizing your space beforehand.
Proctored exams utilize webcam monitoring software to observe behavior that might indicate cheating during an exam, such as squinting, moving the mouse or looking off screen. Furthermore, this monitoring can detect whether students have access to any unapproved materials during testing – although such precautions can often be difficult to implement effectively in practice.
One way to avoid being detected during an exam is to arrange your space and remove any materials unauthorized by the proctor before beginning. Doing this will make it more difficult for him or her to see that you’re cheating. Another option would be using video conferencing programs like Skype or Zoom; these allow communication among friends in the room but still make it hard for the proctor to monitor your activities.
Last but not least, you could try covering your webcam or laptop camera in thin tape or Vaseline to stop any movements during an exam from being captured by its lens. While this technique might work on either device, please keep in mind that other suspicious behaviors like squinting and blinking may still be detected by proctors; moreover, this won’t prevent them from seeing whether you are looking away from camera or have someone helping in the room.
2. Know The Platform
Some online schools utilize proctoring software that can detect and flag specific behavior during exams as being potential forms of cheating, such as Daynuh Joe’s viral Tik Tok post where she explained she received a zero grade as ProctorU detected she was rereading questions to improve understanding. Such actions could potentially result in sanctions from both school administration and exam boards.
3. Know The Rules Your Teacher Did
Students are finding new ways to cheat on proctored exams online. Cheaters use websites like Chegg to source answers, with eproctoring systems designed to detect when students switch tabs or glance away during an exam. Such systems have become more widespread over time – companies like Honorlock offer both live and automated proctoring options that prevent students from opening additional tabs during an exam; yet some professors remain silent while ignoring test logs that indicate cheating activity among their students.
One Missouri professor made national headlines when they filmed themselves admitting to cheating in an online course; her video went viral and received widespread condemnation. Yet most students interviewed by NBC’s Stay Tuned said they are unwillling to stop cheating; many are experiencing difficulty learning in light of COVID-19’s impactful campus life, and are taking an “get-the-answer, pass-the-class and move-on” mentality approach to tackling academic work.
Many of these students worry that when it comes time to taking courses that build upon unlearned material, they won’t be able to connect the dots themselves and feel pressured into cheating in order to advance further in their academic careers.
Teachers can help combat cheating by creating assessments with more formative and less summative assessments. Formative tests assess student progress during a course while summative exams give final grades at the end of a unit or class.
One way to deter students from cheating is to ensure they understand that their answers will be recorded in the test history. Some teachers even create separate versions of quizzes in which to record students’ answers individually and later compare them when it’s over.
Some teachers also employ special seating arrangements during test days to prevent students who tend to engage in cheating from sitting next to each other, thus discouraging any copycat behavior as well as helping identify any suspicious activity – like two identical answers given for the same question!
4. Act “Normal”
Online proctoring companies make every attempt to secure their exam rooms; yet students still find ways of cheating in exams online. From Google glasses and hidden cameras, to copying formulae onto paper sheets and pasting it onto their screen – students constantly find new ways of cheating that slip past proctoring companies who claim to record audio/video during tests to catch those breaking the rules. This should come as alarm bells are sounding as students increasingly resort to cheating methods which bypass proctoring services who claim that recordings would catch any cheaters red handed.
Not surprisingly, students often resort to ingenious forms of cheating under pressure during tests. Pandemic and stay-at-home orders have only compounded the anxiety level of students already feeling unprepared and worried that any small infraction might be taken as evidence of cheating; many also feel discriminated against due to age issues.
Students have taken to using social media and online group chats as a means of sharing answers during tests, particularly standardized exams such as GMAT and GRE that span different time zones and dates. Professors may even acknowledge this issue and warn their students against relying on these sites.
Other methods for cheating at exams may include unscheduled bathroom breaks to get out of the test room or asking someone who took it before to provide answers via two-way radio or microphone. There are services like Chegg that allow students to search for individual questions or entire exams and download results directly.
To address these problems, schools and testing companies should take proactive steps to identify whether their exam content is being shared online and the extent of any related sharing. When this has been identified, schools or testing companies can submit DMCA takedown notices against illicit material that has been uploaded online; also make clear to students that cheating against academic integrity policies will result in serious repercussions if caught.