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AI Proctoring and Online Exam Monitoring Quiz
Tests how AI proctoring detects events, why a flag is not proof of cheating, and the privacy and fairness issues students can raise.
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According to the guide, what does a proctoring flag actually mean?
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- According to the guide, what does a proctoring flag actually mean?
- The student has been proven to have cheated
- The student's behaviour differed from what the model expects
- The exam has been automatically failed
- A live human proctor has confirmed misconduct
- Which layer of a proctoring system blocks other tabs, printing and copy-paste?
- The identity layer
- The monitoring layer
- The lockdown layer
- The scoring layer
- What did the court rule in Ogletree v. Cleveland State University (2022)?
- Proctoring software may not use microphones
- Universities must offer live human proctors
- Face detection must be tested for bias before use
- A required room scan before a remote exam violated a student's Fourth Amendment rights
- How do many proctoring gaze checks estimate where a student is looking?
- They locate facial landmarks, estimate head orientation, and log an event if a threshold is exceeded for long enough
- They use infrared sensors built into the webcam
- They measure the exact pupil position with medical-grade accuracy
- They ask the student to confirm their gaze every few minutes
- What does voice activity detection in proctoring respond to?
- Only the voice of someone other than the student
- Only keywords related to exam questions
- Any speech-like sound
- Only sounds louder than a set volume in a quiet room
- What happens when an instructor tightens a proctoring system's thresholds?
- False flags disappear
- It catches more real misconduct but also produces more false flags
- Only identity checks become stricter
- Students can no longer be flagged for audio
- Why might a student with darker skin in a dim room have trouble starting a proctored exam?
- Face detection has been reported to work less well for some darker-skinned students and in poor lighting
- The lockdown browser blocks low-light webcams
- Identity checks require a specific camera brand
- Room scans cannot be completed without daylight
- Which practice does the guide recommend for instructors reviewing proctoring results?
- Automatically fail any student whose suspicion score passes a set level
- Rely only on the overall score to save time
- Use the score to decide what to review, watch the footage in context, and never apply penalties automatically
- Delete all flags without review to protect privacy
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