The NY Times has an article on an "anticheatware" produce called ProctorTrack that allows students to take exams online in the absence of a human proctor. The computer on which the exam is being taken, however, has to have the ProctorTrack software and a camera/webcam on it which monitors and records the student during the exam. The software is made by the same company the provides "terrorist identification" software to the TSA and uses an algorithm to determine whether the behaviors displayed makes one a suspected terrorist (NOTE: avoid yawning while going through TSA). The article can be accessed here: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/06/technology/online-test-takers-feel-anti-cheating-softwares-uneasy-glare.html?emc=edit_th_20150406&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=389166&_r=0
The article also mentions that Utah Valley University has developed its own software, a predictive or "early warning system" called "Stoplight" that takes a student's academic and demographic info and predicts their likelihood of passing specific courses -- professors are informed about these students with a color code system of green, yellow, and red (this is provided on course lists; presumably, red students are most likely to "cheat" or do unethical things to get good grades -- unclear how undergraduate College Republicans feel about this designation, they may feel "Better dead than Red!"). Amusing NOTE: Rutgers U is one place using ProctorTrack apparently is charging $37 for use of the program for the final exam for a course (the article is unclear how wide spread this done) but a human proctor costs a student $40. Discuss. -Mike Palij New York University [email protected] --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=43654 or send a blank email to leave-43654-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
