Following on from last month, this article goes into detail about how governments monitor their citizens, covering what data is collected and how, including metadata and mobile phone IMSI catchers. by Dr David Maddison
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Online Exam Monitoring Is Now Common In Australian Universities But Is It Here To Stay?
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April 23, 2021 at 1:00 pm
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COVID-19 lockdowns were a huge disruption for Australian universities. With students unable to come to campus, many universities turned to “online proctoring solutions” to monitor students during exam time.
Automation creates more work
Tutors we interviewed described the additional unseen work involved.
They had to write suitable assessment tasks, set up the proctoring parameters, and wade through post-exam reports to judge evidence of anomalies. Moreover, technical staff had to methodically review the content of every assessment to confirm it would be compatible with the software.
Even after all this work, exams were still troubled by glitches. One computer science tutor described the platforms as “totally, totally, buggy”. Staff have little direct control over how the platforms work, as the precise rules used to determine “suspicious” behaviour are tightly protected commercial secrets.
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