Lockdown and education excellence

Excellence in education is all about the teacher – never about the medium. Reflect on your own learning journey; do you have a teacher (lecturer, instructor or tutor) who stands out? Someone who empowered you and enabled you to learn; someone who made a particular subject seem irresistible or inspired you to embrace life-long learning? …

Next-generation exam invigilation

The COVID-19 pandemic forced many education institutions to take entire campuses online almost overnight. Despite a massive growth and adoption in online education technology in recent years, many institutions struggled to translate their on-campus delivery methodology to an online environment and, in particular, were unprepared in how to ensure academic integrity online. This has resulted …

How remote invigilation ensures exam authenticity

Online Education Challenges In comparison with students’ examinations a generation ago, today, there are a lot of advanced ways for educators to assess a student’s academic honesty while taking exams at home. That’s why learning institutions are looking for robust solutions to ensure the high level of remote invigilation without undue hassle. Cheating is one of the …

How to mitigate invigilation anxiety

Why is online invigilation so important nowdays? How to mitigate invigilation anxiety. Online invigilation allows students to take exams remotely and through a secure platform or software to proctor the process. The current global situation amid COVID-19 has tremendously affected the way how companies and learning institutions provide their services to students. Therefore, e-learning and online …

How Artificial Intelligence (AI) enhances online proctoring security

How can AI improve remote proctoring services? Cutting-edge technologies are providing learning systems with new ways to securely and effectively assess students’ academic honesty. Remote proctoring no longer restricts students to a physical location or a precise exam time due to the rapid technological revolution leading to the shifts in demands for advanced online proctoring …

5 remote proctoring things you should know about

Remote Proctoring: why is it signficant? The rapid growth of the e-learning industry has affected a big surge in demand for remote proctoring solutions. Machine learning and facial detection services serve as a deterrent to a breach of academic integrity. Institutions such as the Australian National University (ANU), the University of Florida, and Texas Tech …

What is the difference between learning management and remote invigilation platforms?

Why Do You Need Invigilation Software for Your LMS? Learning management systems foster effective digitized online learning experiences in a collaborative manner. Located in one centralized place, students receive broad possibilities to learn and have all their assignments at their fingertips. Regardless of their broad functionalities, learning management systems have some limitations relating to exam …

How to set up your environment for remote invigilation

Let me explain how the Intelligent Remote Invigilation System (IRIS) works: When the remote invigilation system is active it will be recording a video of you, captured through your computer’s web camera. It will also be recording sound from your computer’s microphone. Every few seconds it will take a screenshot of whatever is showing on …

How do students cheat in online exams?

There is no way around it, students cheat. They have always cheated and they will continue to cheat and Coronavirus has made it even easier for them to get away with it. Many institutes were forced to move online without much preparation or planning due to the sudden and devastating introduction of coronavirus. Bustling campuses …

10 reasons why students hate invigilation software and remote proctoring.

1. They want to cheat and invigilation software makes it much more difficult for them to achieve without being detected. These students might have to roll up heir sleeves and start studying hard as it seems like invigilation software is growing in popularity amongst large educational institutes as a way to ensure academic integrity in their …