Recently, a question “Do college professors know that all the answers to their online exams can simply be Googled?” in Quora caught my attention. With the popularity of online education, online exam systems are used by more and more teachers to test students’ learning achievements. However, many people still worry about the fairness of online exams. There are some related questions in Quora.
- “What are some good ways to detect cheating in online exams?”
- “Is it possible to detect cheating in an online exam?”
- “Is it common to cheat during online exams?”
- “What is to keeping a student from cheating on an online exam?”
- “What are some tips to maintain student’s integrity and avoid student cheating during an online exam?”
In my opinion, the advanced technology can easily help to solve people’s concerns. The mature online exam system has a powerful anti-cheating function. Take a system which is called Online Exam Maker in China as an example.
Face recognition
When candidates enter the exam, the system will perform face recognition to ensure that it is the candidate who is taking the exam.
Anti-cutting screen
When teachers prepare for the test, they can set the number of times that the student switches the screen. If the student switches the screen more than a certain number of times during the test, the system will directly hand in the test paper of the candidate.
Intelligent anti-cheating detection
When the following situations exceeds more than a certain number of times set by the teacher, the system will forcibly submit candidates’ test papers.
- Multiple faces detected
- Detect that no face exists for more than 10s
- The detected sound is louder than the setting sensitivity
In addition to the above points, if the system detects that the candidates’ behaviors are suspected of cheating, it will warn the candidates.
Copy and paste prohibited
During the test, candidates are prohibited from copying and pasting the content of the test questions to search for answers on another website.
The above are several functions that technology can achieve to ensure the fairness of exams. Technology will develop more rapidly in the future, and I believe that more powerful anti-cheating features will be applied to online exams. If you are also interested in the online exam system mentioned above, please click the “Sign up” button at the top right of the page to experience more functions.