College students are learning hard lessons about anti-cheating software
I see online synchronous 1-2 hour exams as a mistaken result of the &quot;let&#x27;s emulate in-person teaching in a remote setting&quot; mindset.<p>You don&#x27;t succeed in remote teaching and learning by trying to make it as close as possible to the in-person setup. You have to treat it as an entirely different problem.<p>Consider the synchronous exam. It is a perfect method of grading in-person. It is hard to cheat and all people take the same test in the same place. It is as fair as it can get.<p>In an online setting however, people can face all sort of troubles in a few hour window in their home. Your internet might stop working, neighbor might be making too much noise etc. Everyone takes the exam in a different setting and it is as unequal as it can get. It is also practically impossible to prevent cheating.