KAU has two tools for handling specific examination-related matters. On the one hand Ouriginal for text comparison (to detect plagiarism) and on the other hand Inspera for digital exam. In addition, of course, we have Canvas and the functionality with assignments and Quiz.
NOTE that the university has replaced Wiseflow to Inspera for digital examinations in autumn 2022.
Continue reading “ICT: Tools for examination”Students who plagiarize, intentionally or unintentionally, is a fairly big issue for any teacher who assesss exam assignments. We can attack plagiarism in two ways: prevent it or detect it.
Continue reading “Plagiarism”Make it difficult to cheat. There is hardly any one single solution that makes it impossible to cheat, but you may at least make it difficult for the person who is tempted by implementing several combined arrangements.
Continue reading “Cheating: Make cheating difficult”When students submit written assignments in Canvas, they should be checked for plagiarism. The Canvas tutorial includes instructions on how to activate plagiarism control and how you as a teacher can monitor and use the results of the automatic control.
Continue reading “Cheating: Plagiarism control in Canvas”Inform students carefully about what cheating is and the consequences of it. Do it in ways that are not too casual. Here are how you find more useful material on cheating and plagiarism.
Continue reading “Cheating: Generally about cheating and plagiarism”It is almost never a good solution to simulate the controlled situation that the exam on campus offers by video-monitoring students when they conduct take-home exams. It is about integrity, effectivenes and efficiency.
Continue reading “Cheating: Monitoring via Zoom?”The requirement for identification is that students must prove their identity and have elements of oral presentation. But not for every examination task in a course and not in all courses. How do you do it?
Continue reading “Cheating: Identify student online”Examining essays create troublesome extra work for tutors and examiners when the essay is carelessly proofread, with formal errors of various kinds. Here is an example of how to use a checklist to support students’ proofreading, reduce extra work for the teacher and get better essays.
Continue reading “Tips: Careless essays with “formal errors””Research in the field of Behavioral Economics shows that the tendency to cheat decreases when you are forced to explicitly state that you have not done so, especially if the declaration is made first, before submitting something.
Continue reading “Tips: Discourage from cheating through a scary, mandatory declaration”How do we check the identity of students when the examination is online? And how do you do it in an efficient manner?
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