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> by weighing grading more towards in-class quizzes and tests

The piece discusses blue book tests where students were still cheating with their phones providing AI responses

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that's a proctoring problem though, no phones during a test is typical to say the least.

And yet a Top 10 school like University of Chicago has apparently not been able to fix that problem.

That's telling in and of itself.

One professor in one class has not fixed the problem. You can't generalize that to the whole university. Even for that one professor/class, it's not the case that the problem can't be fixed (it could be, quite easily), it's that the professor evidently cares so little about doing their job as an educator that they simply should no longer have a job in a university.

AI camera watching the students?

Faraday cage. EMP blast if that doesn't work.

When I TA'd a CS class (the students did their exams in-person but on a website with their laptops), we would solemnly tell them at the start of the exam that we would be monitoring all cell traffic in that room haha.

Body cavity search

https://www.npr.org/2023/09/26/1201734274/chess-hans-niemann...

Somehow my EMP blast idea is the less intrusive one...

I was forced to get a cloud certification while working for a former employer. I took it remotely and had to leave the camera on the whole time. If you looked away even for a second, you'd get a warning. Very dystopian.

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