For the online exams, you have to install and use a "lockdown browser" which takes over your computer and prevents you from accessing any other applications or unapproved websites.
Your camera and microphone is used to verify that nobody else is in the room helping you, and supposedly also to catch if you are using a calculator, a separate computer, looking at notes or books if not permitted, etc. You have to submit a 360 camera view of the room to show what is on your desk and that there are no other screens or computers. All very Orwellian. I get that cheating is a thing, but a determined cheater is going to cheat. At some point it's a cost of doing business and trying to prevent it puts too much burden on the majority of people who are (mostly) honest. Allan Dan Penoff via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com> writes: > I’ve heard that our certification authorities are doing stuff like this so > they can still have people testing for certs. I’m curious as to how they do > it… > > -D > >> On Dec 4, 2020, at 3:15 PM, Allan Streib via Mercedes >> <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: >> >> The next thing is using the camera and screenshots to verify that you >> are sitting at the computer and actually working on work stuff. Similar >> stuff is being done for students taking online exams, to try to detect >> cheating. >> >> Yeah I would not work under those conditions. Also since I use an >> obscure OS at home, none of that would work on my computer. >> >> Allan >> >> >> Dan Penoff via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com> writes: >> >>> Agreed. >>> >>> Just as there are app developers out there who have come up with apps >>> that “twitch” your mouse every few minutes, too. >>> >>> -D >> _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
