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I have always felt excitement at the beginning of a new academic year or semester. When I was a kid, I loved going back-to-school shopping for clothes, folders and other supplies. After bringing home my goodies, I spent the rest of the night organizing my new Trapper Keeper with paper and dividers carefully written out to correspond to my new classes. I wrote my schedule with times and room numbers on the front page, so I wouldn’t get lost in the hallways.
I have approached teaching with the same excitement. It’s a reset and an adventure with every new class. Much like the organization of my Trapper Keeper, I organize my classes in Canvas. I carefully design each assignment while scaffolding to the next to build on concepts and content. I build overview pages for each module and carefully assign open, due and close dates that allow students enough time to work on their weekly projects. I pay attention to the design of each assignment and page so that
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Online proctoring has surged during the coronavirus pandemic, and so too have concerns about the practice, in which students take exams under the watchful eyes (human or automated) of third-party programs.
Chief among faculty and student concerns are student privacy and increasing test anxiety via a sense of being surveilled. Pedagogically, some experts also argue that the whole premise of asking students to recall information under pressure without access to their course materials is flawed. This, they say, may only motivate students to game the system, when cheating is what online proctoring services seek to prevent.
Of course, concerns about academic dishonesty are what gave rise to online exam proctoring in the first place. And the switch to rapid remote instruction provides new opportunities and motivations to cheat: everyone is away from campus, under considerable stress.