You've been able to take online classes for decades, why is this suddenly a problem?
Moreover, if people want to cheat they can find some way to cheat regardless of any countermeasures you deploy.
Moreover, if people want to cheat they can find some way to cheat regardless of any countermeasures you deploy.
Because most of teachers didn't teach online class before. They are not used to design exams that would not be way too easy it suddenly becomes open book.
I won't even say they're "lazy", coming up good take-home exams is super hard, especially when you spend your entire career not need to do that.
> if people want to cheat they can find some way to cheat regardless of any countermeasures you deploy.
I agree if it's online exam, it's kinda doomed either way. But it's more to act as a deterrent than total solution. And it does work to some "less-adventurous" students.
Note: above is just directly replying to your questions. I don't support scanning student's room.
Though maybe an extra step of storing a copy of the ID with the exam entry and having a professor who knows them verify that it matches the real student would catch most of that...
I was a Academic highschool teacher for 8 years and I agree with your statement but also don't think that we should make it too easy for them. At minimum a screen recorder so the students know even if they were not caught during the exam, they could later be caught
Bonus anecdote When the first bluetooth phones hit the market we had students use their (pseudo) smart phones (that looked like expensive calculators with greyscale displays back then) to send each other the solutions during the physics exam. No teacher at the time had this as a threat model
However, if lots of students cheat in the same way semester after semester, the school has a credibility problem.