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Yeah, it's interesting seeing some professors complaining about how AI has made catching cheaters harder now.
But then you see that they are letting students have access to phones and laptops during exam with no software/Internet restriction and you think...yeah I wonder why...what could possibly be done...
Not allow them those devices for a subject like history during an exam? No impossible.
When I brought it up here a teacher went lol but they have phones and tablets. As if its not worth even trying to prevent. And also they said they didn't want to do paper and pencil either because its too much work to grade.
There are programs that completely lock down laptops for exams preventing you from using internet, going to the desktop, open other docs, etc so its not like it has to be paper and pencil to prevent AI usage. But, its like some professors just can't wrap their head around the concept of not allowing full access to electronics or none at all despite the subject matter not being something like programming, but history.
These are generally platform specific and, by their nature, extremely invasive. For people who don't care about their computer except as an "internet getter thingy" and use a supported environment this is fine.
I on the other hand practically can't take such tests without using the university's computers.
With respect to my understanding of accessibility and decency it pretty much does have to be paper and pencil if they're going to limit information access.
Platform specific to windows and mac devices. Thing is if a university wants to create a hard to cheat environment while refusing to do paper exams that is the best option available.
Alternative is choosing to administer exams on personal electronics while doing nothing to prevent access to internet, notes, and software yet asking students to not use it.
That is just naive. And this has been the standard at least where I went to school even before AI. It's not like laptops and smartphones are something new. Its been ubiquitous over a decade now. Yet, some schools act like they've never dealt with it before just because of AI when even prior to AI teachers were well aware of the cheating capabilities of electronics. Even graphing calculators.
Correct. There are two operating systems people use, the rest don't matter.
Refuse? Why?
One teacher here when I brought up paper exams said they find it a hassle to grade.
Mind you I'm not approaching this from a privacy or consumer advocates position. But, as a general university that doesn't care about that and is just choosing among options available to try to make cheating more difficult.
I'm more just amazed at how lax electronics in classes has become during exams more than anything.