B2B media company SmartBrief has included ProctorU’s new whitepaper “Cheating in the Digital Age: How Higher Education Can Protect Itself from New Forms of Academic Dishonesty” in the latest edition of their monthly Tech Showcase Roundup. You can view the latest Tech Showcase Roundup here. “Cheating in the Digital Age” explores the topic of cheating on college… continue reading »
ProctorU Chief Strategy Officer Jarrod Morgan received BHM Biz Magazines’s 20 for the next 20 awards on Oct. 20, 2016. ProctorU co-founder and chief strategy officer, Jarrod Morgan, was honored as part of BHM Biz Magazine’s 20 for the Next 20 Awards recognizing “20 of Birmingham’s most outstanding business leaders who have begun to impact and… continue reading »
“Online learning gives students more options and flexibility and a growing number of them are taking advantage of online courses in order to pursue their degree in a way that works for them.” Read the full article here.
“Cirrus Assessment has today announced that it has joined forces with leading remote proctoring organisation, ProctorU. This partnership combines Cirrus Assessment’s expertise in high stakes e-Assessment delivery with ProctorU’s leading online proctoring technology.”
“ProctorU is pleased to announce partnerships with the Arizona State University (ASU), the University of Virginia (UVA) and the Florida Virtual School (FVS). In collaboration with ProctorU, each institution is able to embrace the use of technology to offer their students flexible options in test-taking.”
“Last week [May 2016] Iowa began investigations after ProctorU, the company that Iowa uses to verify online courses, found potential inconsistencies in students’ identities for one or more exams.”
“University officials plan to offer online exam proctoring services for all online courses through a service provider after running a pilot program in summer courses… ‘(Online) proctoring is very similar to what we do in the classroom nearly every day,” [Debbie Thorne, associate vice president of Academic Affairs at Texas State] said. ‘There’s some type of oversight as the student is taking the exam to make sure they’re only using the materials, if any, that are allowed for the exam.’”
“[University of Iowa] officials announced last week that they were investigating possible academic misconduct involving at least 30 students enrolled in online courses. The university had been alerted to the possible cheating through ProctorU, a national proctoring service that provides identity verification for online courses… ProctorU alerted UI that the students may have attempted to cheat by having other people take their exams in one or more courses.”
“[ProctorU] discovered that students taking online classes had other people take their exams for them, he wrote. ProctorU is able to monitor students through the cameras mounted in the computers used to take the test. In checking the faces of the exam-takers against the identification photos of the legitimate students, ProctorU came to believe that imposters had stepped in for the students. It then alerted the university.”
“ProctorU, a national proctoring service the [University of Iowa] uses to provide identity verification for several of its online courses, detected “potential irregularities” during an exam. Those irregularities involved discrepancies in verifying the identities of test-takers in one or more exams and — in some cases — multiple courses.”