Online test cheating methods. What is the newest thing to watch for?

Started by clean, August 21, 2024, 02:40:22 PM

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clean

We are moving more and more toward online classes.  Some faculty welcome it because , well, some are just flat lazy and this gives them even more cover to get away with even less.  Others have better reasons to like it. 
I hate it.  My discipline does not lend itself well toward this method of instruction (or at least the way we have gone about it).
 
Students (and I may be wrong) seem to think that Online = Easy or online = unrestricted testing.   We used Examity for online proctoring. It had MANY problems, but was better than anything else I have seen before or since.  Well, Examity is leaving the business. (I think that they got bought, but either way, they stop live proctoring at the end of this term).

We are going to be using Honor Lock.  We have a 2 hour meeting tomorrow about it. 

for those of you that are more experienced with these things, or Honor Lock in particular, What should I be looking for?  What are the most popular online cheating tricks by students?  What is on the cutting edge of cheating that I should try to watch out for? 

(I have gone to writing my own MC questions, or even better, modifying test bank questions by changing a number in a calculation which is easy as I am in Finance!).  However, I suspect that essay questions would need to be added to short circuit some of these issues.   

Anyway, What are the problems, potential solutions, and finally, do you have as many issues with Group Me as I seem to be having??? ("Everybody thinks that test was too hard". 
 Who is "everybody" because I am somebody and I dont think that? I ask
"Everybody in the class"
Everybody in the class, or Everybody on Group Me?
'well, group me, but that is everybody!".)
"The Emperor is not as forgiving as I am"  Darth Vader

Parasaurolophus

The main thing, here anyway, is just copy/pasting into ChatGPT. When they can't do that, they'll plug it into their phones (typing it in or taking a picture), ask ChatGPT, and write it all back in. Or have a friend do it and dictate.
I know it's a genus.

dismalist

I appreciate that this is not necessarily for everybody, but here is Steven Landsburg's experience with AI. [I do understand it, but, again, there's no reason everybody should appreciate every word.]

Landsburg on AI

The most general, comprehensible, advice is in the first paragraph.
That's not even wrong!
--Wolfgang Pauli