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[–] 46 points 11 months ago* (14 children)

Or, you know, paper.

  • That's what desk/workspace scanning in the most extreme cases is meant to detect. This is why I really don't like online schooling, because in the absolute worst case, your school will literally scan your place.

You know what would be a really good way to show if your students learned your course material? Let them show it with a practical test of some kind...

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  • [–] 16 points 11 months ago (9 children)

    My daughter had to write a university paper once. They required two cameras to be running. One atop the screen like you use for meetings, and one showing the whole desk and the tested person.

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  • [–] 23 points 11 months ago* (8 children)

    Redhat would randomly interrupt your test and ask you to stand up, pick up the camera and show the room

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  • [–] 19 points 11 months ago* (2 children)

    Privacy invasion. I doubt that would hold water in the EU.
    Also, do we really want to normalize mandatory cameras broadcasting from people's homes? Where's the outrage?

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  • [–] 11 points 11 months ago (4 children)

    It's really useless too. If I wanted to cheat on a test so fucking bad, I'd learn to read braille and just stick reference material under my desk.

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  • [–] 6 points 11 months ago (3 children)

    I’d clone my monitor to a second monitor in another room and then use an AirPod or something similar to communicate with someone searching for the answers using the second screen and a second device.

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago

    There was an actual person that went through a checklist when I had to do my online stuff. They would look at graphics settings and things like xbox bars and such. I guess some people can get really creative. It was irritating having to have a 'clean' account so they wouldn't get access to anything that I wanted private.

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  • [–] 5 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    Easy enough to put notes or a phone on the backside of your monitor. Pearson doesn't check there during their room scans

    Source: Took dozens of exams through them

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