the pictured high school, Etowah, now closed until at least August 31
I had a brief conversation the other day with an adjunct prof at a large state school. His class is going to be all online. He's okay with the teaching aspect (essentially telling me "I'll give the same lectures I have in the past") but resigned to the fact that there will likely be more cheating on exams. He's working on structuring the exam to make it less likely than it would be otherwise. What are you folks in the virtual trenches doing to deal with this issue?
I’ve been giving online exams since I started teaching. I didn’t realize so many people still gave in person exams.
I use random question pools and a time limit. Usually it’s something like 50 questions out of a pool of 80-100 with a 60 min limit. Open book, open notes, they don’t see the correct answers unless I show them the answers. If they try to work with someone else, they just end up doing more work and the questions are in different orders.
Do you do this through black board or some other software?
I'm teaching three new preps, in three different modalities (fully online, "cohort"-alternating" in-person and virtual, and some other hybrid structure), some synchronous and some asynchronous, with enrollments that fluctuate daily. School starts in a couple of weeks. I'm having trouble tracking everything.
Honestly, I'm just planning for everything to be fully virtual come late September.
I also randomize order and do questions pools. You still have to worry about people getting a live tutoring session from Chegg, so we are working with a lockdown browser. I'm still 99% sure my students were talking during the exam, best thing to do is try to use the webcam and convince the students that I can see where their hands are (note: I cannot with most workable camera angles).
I had a brief conversation the other day with an adjunct prof at a large state school. His class is going to be all online. He's okay with the teaching aspect (essentially telling me "I'll give the same lectures I have in the past") but resigned to the fact that there will likely be more cheating on exams. He's working on structuring the exam to make it less likely than it would be otherwise. What are you folks in the virtual trenches doing to deal with this issue?
I also randomize order and do questions pools. You still have to worry about people getting a live tutoring session from Chegg, so we are working with a lockdown browser. I'm still 99% sure my students were talking during the exam, best thing to do is try to use the webcam and convince the students that I can see where their hands are (note: I cannot with most workable camera angles).
Seems like live tutoring for a timed exam would be a pain.
People as I understand it can sign up for a live "tutoring" session with Chegg, which on a timed final would have them reading the question aloud and having the person on the other end give them the answer. We're trying to fix that this year by making the students log on to Zoom with their phone while simultaneously taking a test with their lockdown browser on their computer.
People as I understand it can sign up for a live "tutoring" session with Chegg, which on a timed final would have them reading the question aloud and having the person on the other end give them the answer. We're trying to fix that this year by making the students log on to Zoom with their phone while simultaneously taking a test with their lockdown browser on their computer.
That's how we've been instructed to give tests at the HS level. Have everyone do it on Zoom with a locked browser. I'm going to make my quizzes that way too using Google Forms, you can lock the browser in quiz mode.