In a college hackathon, I wrote a chrome extension that crowd sources answers for online tests and displays them next to the questions. So if one person with the extension took the test already, everyone would get the answers even if the questions/answers are randomized. And in the cases where no answer was available (because the test system doesn't show you the correct answers at the end, or something like that), then it would fall back to showing you percentages so you have an idea of which answer everyone else was choosing.
The reason I built that was just because I was annoyed by how lazy my professors were. Almost every single class (which I was paying for) was graded based on your performance on copy and pasted, endlessly reused tests on Blackboard. Sometimes you could just search the question on Google, and find pdf dumps of the exact same test from 5+ years ago. If you don't cheat, you risk getting a lower grade than the people who do cheat (aka everyone). Why spend all that money going to college if you're just going to let other people get ahead of you so easily? The point of degree is to make you more competitive in the job market, but deciding to not cheat is risking that investment.
Unfortunately, I never actually used it or deployed it once. Coordinating a whole class to install and use a chrome extension for cheating isn't exactly easy. And as far as cheating in online tests goes, there are easier ways to do it.
But yeah, in-person proctored exams are how it should be done. It's the only thing that's fair to everyone.
The reason I built that was just because I was annoyed by how lazy my professors were. Almost every single class (which I was paying for) was graded based on your performance on copy and pasted, endlessly reused tests on Blackboard. Sometimes you could just search the question on Google, and find pdf dumps of the exact same test from 5+ years ago. If you don't cheat, you risk getting a lower grade than the people who do cheat (aka everyone). Why spend all that money going to college if you're just going to let other people get ahead of you so easily? The point of degree is to make you more competitive in the job market, but deciding to not cheat is risking that investment.
Unfortunately, I never actually used it or deployed it once. Coordinating a whole class to install and use a chrome extension for cheating isn't exactly easy. And as far as cheating in online tests goes, there are easier ways to do it.
But yeah, in-person proctored exams are how it should be done. It's the only thing that's fair to everyone.