Digital tools are being used by colleges and universities to prevent cheating during online exams since so many people are taking class from home or their dorm rooms.
There are pain points.
The programs namechecked software, including Pearson VUE and Honorlock, that track eye movements and even anxious sobbing during hard tests, one commenters said underneath a TikTok. A University of Kentucky professor said in a video that he wouldn't trust professors who use tracking software, prompting 2.3 million views and dozens of comments from stressed out students.
One of my French exams got flagged for cheating because I was crying for the whole thing and my French professor had to watch 45 minutes of me quietly sobbing.
One person said that the LSAT uses a proctoring system.
One student said that a proctor asked them to change into something more conservative during the exam in the student's own home.
Fruehwald got so many responses that he made a thread about it.
He should have graduated two years ago but he didn't.
Eye tracking software isn't making waves in the public opinion. One startup is forcing people to watch ads with their eyes open, and another is offering coins in exchange for time.
The way society runs has changed due to the Pandemic, and education is a particularly challenged sector. It's not hard to see why teachers quit their jobs and students cry into eye tracking programs on a computer screen.
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