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New Systems Keep a Close Eye on Online Students at Home
Congress set to require institutions offering online programs to clamp down on cheating.
Chronicle of Higher Education, July 25, 2008
Universities employ webcams to proctor online exams
New technology designed to prevent online university students from cheating on their exams.
Associated Press, June 2007
Your Cheatin’ Heart
Software Secure announced a new product today that combines several security features to help ensure that students in online courses don’t cheat on tests.
Chronicle of Higher Education, Wired Campus Web Site, May 22, 2007
Educational Testing, Degree Credibility Take Giant Leap Forward
Official release describing Securexam Remote Proctor System and how its use will bring academic integrity to distance learning exams.
May 22, 2007
Use of Laptops in July
Bar Exam
One thousand candidates used Securexam to type the essay portion of the New
York Bar Exam on their own laptops. "No glitches, no complaints and no
errors, according to the Board of Law Examiners in Albany."
The New York Law Journal,
August 5, 2005
Software Secure Brings
Secure Computer-Based Exams to the Mac
"With the release of Securexam® for the Mac OS X, Software Secure
ensures that schools and testing organizations can administer cheat-proof testing
on any kind of computer."
Yahoo Finance, March 22, 2005
Teachers fight
high-tech cheaters
"When a private Connecticut school's students began taking English and
history tests on computers last year, temptations for cheating loomed just
keystrokes away."
The Boston Globe, February 27,
2005
Beyond the Blue
Book. Electronic Assessment Software
"Few people like taking exams and even fewer like grading them. Academic
Technology Liaison, Greg Robinson finds a way to make the process less
painful and more efficient."
Ozone, January 5, 2005
Software Secure makes the
UFE easier to take
The Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants brought the Uniform Final
Evaluation into the computer-age by permitting exam candidates to use their
own laptop computers to research and calculate answers during the exam using
special exam security software called Securexam®.
Market Wire, November 1, 2004
Video
from news story
"Blue books could be a thing of the past thanks to a new high tech way
of testing: Securexam."
WB Channel 22, May 6, 2004
Teachers
Combat High-Tech Cheating
"Technology has made it easier for kids to cheat on schoolwork -
particularly when students are more tech-savvy than their instructors."
Investor's Business Daily, April 15, 2004
Laptops lap at
blue book's domain
"I'd be surprised if 90% of our testing isn't done like this [using Securexam software] in five years said an associate
professor of English at the University
of North Carolina Chapel Hill."
The News & Observer, May 3, 2004
Cheats face the heat
"So it's noble of the school to use this software; it puts everyone on
an equal platform. In fact, it was students angry at classmates cheating who
asked Ryerson University
to do something to stop it."
The Toronto
Star, April 30, 2004
Stop Thief! Electronic
Light Fingers Multiply in Virtual Environments
"Essay theft is only one of the problems associated with electronic
academic thievery. Cheating on tests is another common problem. Gone are the
days when cheaters hide answers on sweating palms."
Virtual University Business Digest, August 2001
Colleges Clamp
Down on Cheaters
"On today's technology-driven campuses, cheating is easier than ever,
from sharing test answers via wireless devices to creating cut-and-paste term
papers directly from the Net".
USA
Today, June 11, 2001
Schools Get
Advanced Tools to Nab Cheaters
"More than 100 high schools and colleges next year will use Secureexam, tested in 19 schools including Babson College
in Wellesley, Mass.,
and the University
of North Carolina last
month."
USA
Today, June 11, 2001
Cheat-Proof
"The software has obvious appeal for schools that require students to
use laptops and for students who have grown up using computers. Why, as Winneg asks, should students face the extra exam-time
stress of doing without the word-processing tools they're accustomed
to?"
University Business, June 1, 2001
For Those Who
Would Click and Cheat
"[This software] enables teachers to do away with blue books, those
flimsy stapled booklets that are used for essay tests. Given how much today's
students use word processors and e-mail, the act of writing using a pen and
paper seems almost foreign to many students, professors say."
New York Times, April 26, 2001
Securexam Desktop Security Software
"The software prevents cheating on exams administered via computer by
locking out access to files and programs on the computer, except basic
Microsoft Word features."
eSchoolNews , April 1, 2001
New Way to
Take Exams
"I have heard of students using the network architecture to cheat.but as
people give more exams in the lab, it is a concern. Better to have something
out there first than to have a problem later."
Mass High Tech, March 19, 2001
Mass.
Startup Debuts Test-Security Software
"Developers say Securexam is unique because it
is the first and only offering that is compatible with Windows 95, 98 and NT
applications."
Office.com, March 2, 2001
Online
Testing, with No Cheating: New Software Aims to Keep Students Honest
"With more colleges requiring students to own laptops and use them in
classes, a Burlington company
hopes to profit from the growing market with a new software program that
allows teachers to test students online while keeping them from
cheating."
Boston Globe, January 29, 2001
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