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Question: How to secure an exam administered on student laptops
Our school, all medical schools, are moving to digital exams. The only way I can think of ensuring they would be secure is to boot every laptop from a live CD or over the network.
The National Board of Medical Examiners, meanwhile, is pushing QuestionMark, which only runs its "secure" browser on Windows. I'm just a student helping the faculty; I don't have a copy of Windows. Would anyone be willing to run the "QuestionMark Secure" in a Windows VM and see if it protests?
Feeling awkward here, but would greatly appreciate the assist.
- timbowen 18y agoI think forcing them to boot over the network to access the test is your best bet. While QuestionMark may run in a windows VM on some machine the vast variety of different Linux/BSD distributions will make setting up that VM a nightmare.
- jws 18y agoI think having a room full of med students network boot their random vendor laptops will take about as long, and succeed about as well, as asking a room full of computer nerds to draw a pint of blood from themselves.
- tptacek 18y agoYes. My contact info is here: http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=tptacek http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=tptacek