Exam Cheating Prevention

proctored in-person exams, no electronics allowedexams now count for 100% of your gradethese aren't insurmountably difficult problems for universities to solve

I mean to be fair any college exam is physically proctored by TA's and teachers to avoid the same thing before. Though the solutions aren't great there is something to be said for attempting to keep the validity of an exam.

hmm, could this be exploited for test taking

I had an experience like this in Numerical Methods in university years ago.The exams were incredibly difficult for bad reasons: you had to calculate many iterations of an algorithm by hand. You also had to memorize a bunch of algorithms (rather than understanding how they worked or how to modify them to solve different problems).The professor also had a "can't do anything about it" attitude, and so the entire class was blatantly cheating as a result, and I got the worst grad

Why can’t this be done like in-class pencil-and-paper exams?

If your exam can be cheated on, you're doing exams wrong.

Doesn't stop an industry of cheating by having crib sheets or entire whiteboards with accessory equations, information, or potentially gasp answers on the other side of the screen. Without a 360 camera recording the entire room for the entire duration of the exam, proctor-based exams at a public venue or off-site corporate testing center should be the gold standard. (A few institutions like Stanford continue an absurd tradition of proctor-less exams.)

I can see this being used to cheat in exams ;)

How are you supposed to assess whether a student has learned quantum mechanics, or chemistry, or calculus if any questions you ask them they can simply contact another student for help, or get someone to do it for them on sites like Chegg? Short of giving an individualized oral exam, which is not feasible for anything but tiny classes, proctored exams are necessary for assessment in such classes. This has nothing to do with memorization or time pressures, and everything to do with making sure th

This semester all my exams are open note, no proctoring. I think it is harder for professors to write a good exam this way (they need to make the questions things that test understanding instead of just recall.) I’m certainly doing way better with this method, but I think I am still learning the subject just as well as I would in the “old” method of stressful proctoring and memorization.It seems like with software, you could easily write math questions with different inputs, as you suggest (i