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This is just...depressing. BSL-4-like rooms just to test university students.

• nneonneo 4mo ago
  I'm sure you're exaggerating, but the exam process in a CBTF is pretty lightweight. Students arrive, drop off their bags and phone etc., check in (swipe an ID card, get their picture matched), log into the computer and the exam website. When the exam starts, they refresh the site and do the exam; we've got proctors in the room as usual to watch for any conventional cheating (using a phone, consulting a friend). If you find that onerous, I guess a paper exam would probably also feel pretty depressing to you.
  • goosejuice 4mo ago
    The loss of trust would be the depressing part (to me). That said the amount of cheating I witnessed in undergrad was also depressing.
    • nneonneo 4mo ago
      TBH - for me, it’s an opportunity to do a different kind of exam, with a level of interactivity and realism that isn’t possible with paper exams. It is possible but much more annoying to run such exams in a BYOD setting: for example, the lack of consistency between people’s machines, and the risk of device failures, are just two reasons why BYOD is hard even before you get into the cheating aspects.