Online Exam Cheating: How to Ensure Fairness and Integrity 📝 | Eklavvya [Video]

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This video demonstrates 4 effective ways for Academic Integrity in Online Exams: Techniques to Ensure Fairness 🏆

Exams are an essential part of the learning process. It helps to measure students’ knowledge as well as understanding associated with the subject. But what happens when exams are conducted online mode?

So online exam provides unique challenges when it comes to preventing cheating. So, with easy access to the internet and the ability to collaborate with others, how can educators ensure that students are taking exams fairly?

Here are some of the strategies that will certainly help educators and institutes where they can define online exam questions and prevent cheating.

First, you can use the randomized question order and answer option. This helps students to prevent sharing answers using any other forms where each student will receive a different set of versions of the question.

Second, use open-ended or essay-based questions that require students to demonstrate their knowledge as well as understanding. This makes it more difficult for students to cheat as they need to generate their own answers rather than copying them from elsewhere.

Third, you can use adaptive or personalized testing. This ensures that the student receives a unique set of exam questions based on their individual level of knowledge as well as understanding. It can prevent the sharing of the answers.

Fourth, you can use strict prevent measures to unauthorized access to online exam material that includes password protection, encryption or other technical safeguards to prevent students from sharing exam answers or accessing unauthorized resources during the exam.

You can also use advanced tools like AI Proctoring, Facial Recognition, and per question timers to make online exams empowered with strict invigilation. Finally, you can educate students about the importance of academic integrity and the consequences of cheating. So let students know that cheating is not tolerated and they will not be held accountable for their actions.

So, by following various strategies, education institutions can define online exam questions that are effective, engaging and difficult to cheat will certainly promote academic integrity. It will ensure fairness in the online exam. So let us ensure fairness and a level playing field for all the students using these innovative strategies to conduct online exams.