Student Surveillance Vendor Proctorio Files SLAPP Lawsuit to Silence a Critic
The most malware-y test-related piece of software I've had to install on my computer is Lockdown Browser, which requires to be run as root on macOS or Windows(!) (no Linux obviously), detects if its running in a VM, has a blacklist of processes that it forcibly kills and disables use of external displays and keyboards. I've heard that there's also a camera/microphone option but my professor didn't enable it.<p>And it's a difficult situation to be in because on the one hand you feel a moral imperative to say something but on the other you just want to pass the class. I have no idea how effective it was when students could just use their phone to look things up.<p>It doesn't have to be this way. I especially like UC Berkeley's guidelines for remote exams[0], some of which have been followed by other professors. e.g. if you limit submission time it's going to be near impossible to learn how to convert a state machine into a synchronous logical circuit and perform it within 15 minutes (plus other questions).<p>[0] <a href="https://teaching.berkeley.edu/best-practices-remote-examinations" rel="nofollow">https://teaching.berkeley.edu/best-practices-remote-examinat...</a>