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I did a WGU CS degree, which had a lot of online testing. It was honestly fine. They made me use an HD webcam, show my drivers license, and pan around the ro
by tombert 3y ago
I did a WGU CS degree, which had a lot of online testing.
It was honestly fine. They made me use an HD webcam, show my drivers license, and pan around the room to ensure I was by myself and didn’t have an easy way to cheat. They also made me share my screen on Zoom and open up the Application Monitor to ensure I was only running Firefox. They didn’t let you take notes on paper, just using a portable whiteboard that they watched me erase before leaving.
I’m not saying it’s impossible to cheat, but I would say it’s probably roughly as difficult as cheating in person. Presumably the SAT stuff would be comparable.
- BlueFalconHD 3y agoI feel like people who cheat on digital tests could learn a thing or two from cheaters in video games. They have cheats that are invisible on screen-shares and that are super hidden (this mostly applies to AC bypasses, but some cheats run at a kernel or hardware level)
- tombert 3y agoYeah, as I said it's obviously no impossible to cheat in WGU, I don't even think that they're claiming that. I think they're just doing a reasonable level of due diligence to make digital cheating comparatively difficult to in-person cheating. Could someone do some kind of hacked video driver (or something similar) to fool screen sharing, or have a fake ID made so that someone else could take the test in their place? Of course, but that's difficult enough to where fundamentally a vast majority of people simply won't do it. I don't think most cheating deterrents have the goal of eliminating 100% of cheating, but rather the 95+% of potential cheaters who would do the easy stuff. I mean, if you're willing to put in a lot of effort to cheat on a test, at some point it's easier to just study and pass it legitimately.
- glazzies 3y ago[dead]