One terrible way that bad professors try to enforce students attending their class periods is by sprinkling in "clicker" quizzes into their lectures. These are

One terrible way that bad professors try to enforce students attending their class periods is by sprinkling in "clicker" quizzes into their lectures. These are little four-button devices that you have to buy/rent at exorbitant rates from the school IT department. One class that I took, informally known as "Stars for Stoners" aka Astronomy 101, based something like 10% of the total grade on these clicker questions. Naturally, people found ways to circumvent this kind of bullshit[1], at least for a while... [1] https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2015/01/08/dartmouth/GN8oLJcgKj7R1nOoPNiLdL/story.html https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2015/01/08/dartmouth/GN8oL...