Most of Berkeley's own classes don't follow the official guidelines or best practices. I just took a high-stakes test today that was curved, closed note/book/ev

Most of Berkeley's own classes don't follow the official guidelines or best practices. I just took a high-stakes test today that was curved, closed note/book/everything, and required live proctoring over zoom with hands in view at all times. And that isn't cherry picking, because all of my classes this semester with assessments have similarly invasive policies. I am thankful, however, that the pushback on proctoring software has been strong enough that the university doesn't use it. Most faculty (4/5 of mine. I dropped the 5th person's class) will also accept students with technical incapabilities or objections to being recorded live, probably because they understand that if a student escalates privacy concerns, the department will side with them thanks to the university's "official" stance on proctoring.