“Can we stop it 100 percent? No we can’t,” Devoss said. “But we can greatly decrease the risk, and that’s something, I think, that every college strives for.”
More than 30 U.S. colleges use Tegrity lecture capture systems for test monitoring, according to the company.
The lecture-recording system doesn’t just pick up tapping noises that could be a student texting a fellow student for answers, said Tammarra Holmes, LCCC’s project leader for the test proctoring initiative.
The technology, she said, records any loss of web access during an exam, leaving students without the excuse that internet service temporarily failed during an online test. Those outages, LCCC officials said, provide prime cheating opportunities for dishonest students.
For more on lecture-capture use in higher ed:
Online learning official: Lecture capture helps students ‘review, review, review’
“That’s not happening nearly as much anymore,” Holmes said. “We know the recording [system] will catch any technical problems that might occur during a test.”
Trina Kilty, instructional designer at LCCC, said the Tegrity system also blocks access to any unapproved websites – a key feature missing from other proctoring systems LCCC officials have considered.
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