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> try and prevent

Yeah, good luck with that. If there's one thing remote teaching during covid taught me it's that you can't stop someone from cheating during an online assessment.

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I graduated from WGU and I wouldn't have known how to cheat on the many proctored tests. The only special software I installed was Zoom. I had to have a detached USB camera and show myself and my testing area, and then during the test the camera was to my side showing both myself and the laptop screen.

I'm sure it's possible, but that seems just as secure as a random highschool teacher, which was the only anti-cheat of decades past.

my favorite cheating on a test scene ever is from Spies Like Us:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iaSUOFleNRU

> The only special software I installed was Zoom

I wonder when they changed that. I was there around 2014, and back then you either had to install their anti cheat software, or go to a local testing/proctor center.

How is that experience relevant? Students aren't taking the test remotely, they are taking it in a controlled test center, just possibly with their own device.

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