Many University departments have decided to revert back to the good ol pen and paper for end of year exams in a bid to stop cheats.
Auckland University computer science senior lecturer Dr Ulrich Speidel says universities are generally not doing enough to ensure online exams are secure.
He says he has detected students running two computers on one machine to evade automated proctoring, smuggling questions to outside helpers, or sitting in exam rooms while someone outside did their exam for them.
Speidel stated that “40 – 50%” of his class would cheat if they were given the avenue to do so and Universities are not taking the issue seriously enough.
“I think that’s actually a sector-wide problem. Partly I think that’s come out of a simple lack of awareness that this is possible”
He says running a totally water-tight digital exam was so hard, it was not worth the effort and should return to the traditional pen and paper.
