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College's Use of Exam-Proctoring Software to ‘Scan’ Rooms Violated Privacy Rights, Judge Finds

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Colleges can’t tap into a student’s webcam to scan the room around them during remote exams. The case involves a student at Cleveland State University whose professor asked students to allow the college’s Honorlock software to capture images of their surroundings to make sure study materials weren’t present.

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Five Tips for Writing Academic Integrity Statements in the Age of AI 

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The rise of generative AI tools like ChatGPT, Copilot, Claude, Gemini, DALL-E, and Meta AI has created a pressing new challenge for educators: defining academic integrity in the age of AI. Tell your students what YOU allow Every college and university has an academic integrity/honesty or academic dishonesty statement.

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Some Professors Fight Study-Help Sites. Other Professors Now Use Them.

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At about the same time, though, Rutgers officials sent out an email to all faculty at the university, warning about Course Hero and another service, Chegg, where students were posting faculty tests and exams without permission. “We The company is part of what has become a big business in providing study help to college students for a fee.

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More Students Are Using Chegg to Cheat. Is the Company Doing Enough to Stop It?

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The pandemic has dramatically altered teaching and learning, and one side effect seems to be a rise in cheating on quizzes and tests, aided by websites designed to help students study. All of a sudden,” she says, “there was temptation and opportunity that never existed for them before during exams.” Gallant’s group has some advice. “If

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Five Tips for Writing Academic Integrity Statements in the Age of AI 

Faculty Focus

The rise of generative AI tools like ChatGPT, Copilot, Claude, Gemini, DALL-E, and Meta AI has created a pressing new challenge for educators: defining academic integrity in the age of AI. Tell your students what YOU allow Every college and university has an academic integrity/honesty or academic dishonesty statement.

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As a Giant Edtech Conference Returns in Person, a Focus on Putting Humanity First

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Another was Ruha Benjamin, a Princeton professor of African American studies who gave a speech about how racism can seep into and be shaped by education technology and other tools. Some speakers discussed empathy directly, like Graetz, who co-led a session about building more of it into the design of online courses.

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Automated Proctoring Swept In During Pandemic. It’s Likely to Stick Around, Despite Concerns

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The most controversial new tech tool for colleges since the start of the pandemic is automated proctoring, which aims to detect cheating on online exams by using algorithms that watch students via their webcam and look for suspicious patterns of behavior—often sending clips of questionable moments to professors for later review.

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