Prevent cheating at take-home exams, where fast students help students with extended writing time.
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Plagiarism
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.
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With the Canvas Quiz-function, the previous hall exam form has been replaced by multiple-choice and essay questions. It is about examination in large student groups. Experiences, challenges and lessons learned from a project in the subject Business Administration. (Video, 26 min., only in Swedish)
Cheating: Make cheating difficult
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”Cheating: Plagiarism control in Canvas
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.
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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”Cheating: Monitoring via Zoom?
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.
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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”Tips: Discourage from cheating through a scary, mandatory declaration
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.
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