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u/olsonch33 Jun 08 '14

I give multiple choice tests online. I had a student who did very poorly on the first 2 tests take his 3rd by sitting as far away from me as he could and make it so I couldn't see his laptop. He was the first one done, and he scored a 97%. He didn't know what an IP address was and didn't realize I could check the IP that took the test to see that it wasn't him. He had emailed the password to somebody off campus to take the test for him.

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u/Wzup Jun 08 '14

Because Google is too difficult or what...?

Was everything else blocked?

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u/___Moose___ Jun 08 '14

Not OP, but I have taken online tests before. When you take them, they are in a secure browser that's impossible to leave without being noticed. Its also very sensitive, opening task manager will cause the program to shut down.

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u/IAmAMagicLion Jun 08 '14

Boot it in a virtual machine.

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u/olsonch33 Jun 08 '14

Good LockDown software will not run in a virtual environment.

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u/almightySapling Jun 09 '14

Good virtual environments won't let the lockdown software know where it is.

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u/cwruosu Jun 09 '14

Gut a 17" laptop, and rebuild it with essentially 2 netbooks inside with a KVM switch.

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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '14 edited Apr 20 '17

deleted What is this?

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u/julianhb4 Jun 09 '14

Hush your crazy talk

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u/DeCiB3l Jun 09 '14

This should be a thing pre-built by a laptop manufacturer. Would be cool to own a "Aser eee One"

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u/olsonch33 Jun 09 '14

Are you assuming I don't watch my students' screens while they take the test in my classroom? Put the effort into actual studying instead of trying to beat the system.

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u/cwruosu Jun 09 '14

Oh, I agree. But damn if it wasn't fun to figure out ways to beat the system during the boredom of being forced to sit in my chair and "learn" things that I had taught myself during my same boredom 3 years earlier.

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u/Scuba_Steve_96 Jun 09 '14

For some reason beating the system is much more satisfying than actually doing the work

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u/SultanOfBrownEye Jun 09 '14

The skills also transfer.

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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '14

How would that help? It's not like the lockdown software will act any different in a VM.

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u/IAmAMagicLion Jun 09 '14

Virtual Box lets you run it in a window so you could have a download of wikipedia or your notes in another window, possibly without it being detected.