“It basically shuts out any other site they’re not allowed to look at,” Kilty said, adding that some students used to open a new tab on their web browser, quickly Google an issue or question, and plug in the answer on their online test or quiz. “It’s really one-on-one proctoring, as if [the instructor] is there.”
LCCC instructors review random exam videos, and scrutinize proctored videos of students who finish an exam too quickly. Completing a test in 15 minutes when most students take close to an hour, Devoss said, always raises red flags among educators.
Devoss said online students’ almost-inaudible whispering during exams can help her better address concepts the student is struggling to understand.
For more on lecture-capture use in higher ed:
Online learning official: Lecture capture helps students ‘review, review, review’
“If I can hear what they’re telling and asking themselves … I can help them with their critical thinking and I can make it work for them,” she said.
Cheating among web-based students made national headlines in the closing weeks of the spring 2011 semester. Students at the State University of New York (SUNY) Upstate Medical University were caught May 12 collaborating with each other during online quizzes.
Upstate students who were aware of classmates cheating on online quizzes and said nothing to school officials were also in violation of the campus’s honor code, the university announced in May.
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