SnitchCam: Catching Distance Learning Cheaters.

Posted by Alex in Gadget on June 20, 2007 at 1:46 pm


What’s to prevent a student taking online courses from cheating? Nothing much, apparently, until this gizmo hits the market:

This fall, Troy University in Alabama will begin rolling out the new camera technology for many of its approximately 11,000 online students, about a third of whom are at U.S. military installations around the world.

The device, made by Cambridge, Mass.-based Software Secure, is similar in many respects to other test-taking software. It locks down a computer while the test is being taken, preventing students from searching files or the Internet. The latest version also includes fingerprint authentication, to help ensure the person taking the test isn’t a ringer.

Link - via Gizmodo



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7 comments to "SnitchCam: Catching Distance Learning Cheaters."

  1. votd
    June 20th, 2007 at 2:45 pm

    Mmmm, if only there was a way of getting around such a pesky device…let me check on my other computer.

  2. vandoo
    June 20th, 2007 at 3:22 pm

    … or my cell, pda, tv, PS3, blah blah blah

  3. Gellner
    June 20th, 2007 at 4:18 pm

    Gee…i guess nobody could use A DIFFERENT COMPUTER to beat this. Fucking Alabama…LOL

  4. burtram
    June 20th, 2007 at 4:45 pm

    lemme just load up my htpc and start a “movie” for background noise while i take this here test…

  5. Frogstar Robot
    June 20th, 2007 at 6:51 pm

    Or just install the crap in a virtual machine. VMware and QEMU are nice free ones…….

  6. Geekazoid
    June 20th, 2007 at 7:44 pm

    Well this device would be more effective if it had some sort of ‘web cam’ that monitored the students live as they took the test. It would be one additional enforcement measure.

  7. Solo
    June 21st, 2007 at 12:57 pm

    You don’t understand people, this technology is infallible, it’s the same as they put in electronic voting machines.

    In addition to blocking other computers, it also blocks friends, siblings, and more importantly books and printout.


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