Madison, WI- On Tuesday, July 5 at 5:30 pm, frontline nurses and caregivers will testify at the first hearing of the Dane County Healthcare and Public Health Wo
Madison, WI- Local nurses and caregivers are applauding a vote by the Health and Human Needs Committee of the Dane County Board of Supervisors on May 26 to crea
The last thing UW-Madison junior Paige Leistner needed this semester was additional stress.
On top of a rocky transition to online classes, a fear of contracting COVID-19 and limited interactions with friends, Leistner also has to deal with another unsettling source of anxiety â the anti-cheating computer software that monitors her every move during an exam.
Welcome to the world of Honorlock, the online proctoring software more than 300 universities and colleges, including UW-Madison and Madison Area Technical College, have turned to for assistance in testing studentsâ knowledge during the pandemic.
Honorlock and other software systems with names like Proctorio, ExamSoft and ProctorU rely on a range of tools such as artificial intelligence, facial detection software, browser lockdown tools and eye-tracking technology to flag behaviors that could indicate students are cheating on their exams.