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> Last year, Oklobdzija allowed his class to use laptops for exams so they could type responses and he wouldn’t have to decipher handwriting that looked more li
by tzs 1y ago
> Last year, Oklobdzija allowed his class to use laptops for exams so they could type responses and he wouldn’t have to decipher handwriting that looked more like hieroglyphics. He asked them to obey the school’s honor code and made them promise they wouldn’t use ChatGPT. Then one of his teaching assistants took a picture of a student using ChatGPT.
> “So,” he said, “blue books it is.”
A good compromise is the old fashioned, but still being made, typewriter [1] [2].
It is logistically a little more work to allow typewriters on exams because they are noisy. You generally need to separate the people who want to type from the people who want to hand write. A bit of a hassle but should be doable.
[1] https://www.amazon.com/Royal-79101t-Classic-Manual-Typewriter/dp/B07SWV2X82/?th=1 https://www.amazon.com/Royal-79101t-Classic-Manual-Typewrite...
[2] https://www.staples.com/royal-consumer-scriptor-electric-typewriter-white-royal-typewrite/product_2604742 https://www.staples.com/royal-consumer-scriptor-electric-typ...
- theamk 1y agoIf you are ready to provide hardware, why bother with typewriter? Just provide school notebooks with locked-down OS which can only open exam website. Does not even have to be any of the good ones. Something like an ancient Chromebook with locked-down managed enterprise profile would be _perfect_: it needs to be able to open exactly one website (the exam-taking one). This will be significantly better than typewriters - quieter, more robust, does not need paper, easier to grade, etc....