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They do in the sense that you can presume all students have a cellphone, though whether something like Proctorio works with a cellphone camera is another matter (though probably some company somewhere has developed something for mobile + camera technologies).
I've had students take Canvas-based quizzes on their cellphones without issue.
To minimize the opportunities around Googling the answers, setting a time limit on questions can help, so that either they know the answer or they don't.
You can also shuffle questions for each student to thwart collaborative test taking strategies, and draw from a question bank with even more questions so that students don't all get the exact same test, which is easy to do on Canvas.
This works best for multiple choice, but these quiz design strategies can be adapted for short answer, open questions etc.
I HAVE noticed, however, that in-class paper-based quizzes tend to generate lower grade distributions compared to Canvas-based quizzes, and the Canvas activity log gives plenty of indication that well over half the class is going to explore the web while taking online quizzes.
Maybe something for a TLD grant! To explore the grade distributions of the exact same quiz delivered online vs. in person on paper, over time, same class etc.
From: Nicholas Blomley <blomley@sfu.ca>
Sent: Wednesday, March 18, 2020 4:53 PM To: Nicolas Schmitt Cc: Leanne Ramer; Nicholas Blomley; Christopher Pavsek; academic-discussion (academic-discussion@sfu.ca) Subject: Re: Good ideas for final exams? Doesn’t this presume that all students have a laptop and a camera?
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