Some online courses make it easy to enable cheating with weak authentication. For instance, rather than course specific login, if it were authenticated by your

Some online courses make it easy to enable cheating with weak authentication. For instance, rather than course specific login, if it were authenticated by your real one and true prized Google account, would these students be so eager to give up credentials? Of course merely changing to Google authenticated accounts isn't enough, just get a throw away Google account for the cheater to use. But there should be some chain of trust that enables authentic authentication. What's going on here, aside from the cheating, is inauthentication.