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Can someone please describe this "scan" technology? The article didn't. I'm picturing a swarm of small hovering drones sweeping their blue laser beams over yo

• technion 4y ago
  Before the test starts, you are directed to move the camera around the room, behind your chair and things like that. The Pearson proctor made me remove paintings from the wall to prove there was nothing behind them
  • helsinkiandrew 4y ago
    It's hard to believe that a suitably motivated college student couldn't figure out a way of getting around that kind of scanning - what about papers in books, info on phone screen, even someone holding up posters at the window.
    • ghusto 4y ago
      First thing I thought of was taping the "cheats" the the back of laptop screen ;P
      • jacquesm 4y ago
        Hehe, the hacker mentality at work :) 'I spy with my little eye and it is 'white'' -> the white of your eyeballs.
• astrobe_ 4y ago
  It's probably just a faculty asking the student to make a 360 with the webcam, according to what they did in my country. That procedure is full of holes, though. There are so many ways to cheat when you don't take a test on-site, that it's not even funny. Those tests have to be performed with a computer on to begin with. I've heard that in some cases, there was testing software that would scan the computer too, similar to games' anti-cheat devices. Schools first implemented that procedure in a hurry then stuck to it, and they thought they could violate privacy "a little" because states and countries themselves adopted exceptional laws that limited human rights. That felt wrong to me when it happened, and I am glad that at least a judge in the US confirmed it was wrong.