Re: Timed Notebooks for Student Take-home examinations
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- Subject: [mg60322] Re: Timed Notebooks for Student Take-home examinations
- From: Urijah Kaplan <uak at sas.upenn.edu>
- Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2005 06:06:56 -0400 (EDT)
- Organization: University of Pennsylvania
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Couldn't someone just take a screen shot of the test? I don't see how you could prevent that... --Urijah Kaplan W. Craig Carter wrote: > I wonder if anyone has implemented this, if not I will give it a > try. > > I'd like to create a template and package for student take home > exams. > > The student would need to finish the notebook in a fixed amount of > time. The instructor, who has encoded the package, would be able to > determine how much time the student has used to finish the exam by > decoding a string that is written just before the notebook exits. > > It would need to be moderately safe from cheating. > > Advice would be most welcome. > > > W. Craig Carter > Lord Foundation Professor of Materials Science and Engineering > MIT, Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering 13-5018 77 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139-4307 USA > 617-253-6048 ccarter at mit.edu http://pruffle.mit.edu/~ccarter http://pruffle.mit.edu/~ccarter/FAQS/ http://pruffle.mit.edu/~ccarter/I_do_not_use_microsoft.html >