Faculty
- Triton Testing Center Proctor Pool
- Use Turnitin
- Assignment Policies
- Class Rules for Exams
- Regrade Policy
This leads to increased temptations for students to cheat, especially in large classes where they feel anonymous and invisible.
In addition, because our student community is diverse with varying educational backgrounds, cultural norms for examinations (e.g., no cheat sheets) may not be shared. Thus, it can be helpful to reduce opportunities for cheating and remind students of your expectations for honest, trustworthy, respectful, responsible and fair behaviors.
To remind students:
To help prevent students from arranging to copy from a friend during an in-class assessment, we suggest you use assigned seats. To do this, see Prof. Glenn Tesler's site, Assigning Seats at UC San Diego using Canvas. It includes how-to videos and room spreadsheets for assigning seats in your classes using Canvas. This includes randomized seats or specific seats, and seating patterns like every other row or seat and more.
Ddownload additional classroom maps not found on Glenn Tesler’s site:
If you cannot space out students in an exam (e.g., every other seat), we recommend that students receive different versions of the exam/test/quiz. Typically, you need at least 3 versions (so neighbors do not have the same version as each other).
For paper exams, these tools and instructions for an exam question randomizer tool comes to you courtesy of Professor Lynn Russell (SIO).
For Canvas exams, you can randomize the quizzes so all students do not receive the same questions in the same order.
To prevent students from using aids that you would consider unauthorized or cheating, clearly specify to students what is and isn't allowed, especially if it might not otherwise be clear. For example:
Also, if you are requiring the use of bluebooks or scantrons, we recommend one of two practices to avoid students coming with pre-written materials:
Students might use common devices, such as cell phones, tablets, smart watches, to cheat during exams. Because students are very attached to these devices and sometimes aren't even aware that they are using them, be explicit about their use so students can't say, "I didn't know," or "I had it on me but I wasn't using it to cheat."
Your clarity before the exam can cut down on the difficulty you experience when dealing with students who violate the rules.
State in writing that it's required that:
We do not recommend using CANVAS Quizzes for high stakes tests if you are having students complete those quizzes remotely or even in class but on their own machines. Obviously, when completing these remotely, there is little you can do to minimize cheating temptations and opportunities.
Even when you give these in class with protoring and you are using a lockdown browser, students have access to digital methods of cheating. For example, they can share their screens and use apps (like WeChat, Discord, ChatGPT) to communicate with others or employ browser extensions (like Courseology) to provide AI generated answers to exam questions.
Consider other rules you have that may not be common in high school or in other university classes. For example: