Fraud prevention in digital exams, with the introduction of ChatGPT and the use of student-owned devices (BYOD), is becoming increasingly challenging. The Safe Exam Workspace combines preventive blocking mechanisms with an additional detection layer to achieve the highest possible level of fraud prevention - no screen recording or monitoring needed.
Institutions typically rely on dedicated computer labs for file/skill-based exams where desktop applications like Excel, SPSS, Matlab, R, and VScode/Python need to be installed. The Safe Exam Workspace simplifies this by enabling these applications to run in a fully isolated environment on any student device, without software installation. It ensures a uniform exam setting while preventing internet or personal file access.
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Don't be constrained by the number of seats in your own computer labs for administering exams. Utilize Schoolyear on student-owned devices to transform any room into a temporary exam computer lab. This enables continuous assessments and large-scale exams for groups of students during exam weeks.
Fontys University of Applied Sciences was looking for a reliable and integrated method within the testing application to prevent fraud (e.g., use of unauthorized sources) during digital knowledge assessments. We administer these tests on a student's laptop under controlled conditions at a Fontys location. The Schoolyear product works as expected, and our partnership with Schoolyear is satisfactory.
The tooling of Schoolyear however provides our education teams a most simple efficient and effective solution to prepare and take digital exams using most common end-user client systems owned by our school or students (BYOD). The involvement of IM /IT and related costs of overhead now has been reduced to almost nothing. Our teachers are back in control of their secure digital exams.
Wageningen University & Research sought a flexible solution for fraud prevention during exams administered on students' own laptops. Schoolyear allows us to utilize our educational spaces more flexibly and reduce the need for fixed PC rooms.
We wanted to introduce safe and robust on-campus digital testing where at several moments 800+ students could be taking the same exam, however no combination of exam rooms had 800+ computers available at those moments. For us Schoolyear was the perfect and robust solution that we were looking for, as this allowed us to use the laptops of the students in regular exam rooms.
ROCMN has been involved in the development and testing of Schoolyear since the very first releases. At that time, we were promised a solution for securely administering digital exams on BYOD, which is user-friendly for both students and teachers. Additionally, we wanted a solution that is scalable and requires minimal effort from our technical and functional administrators. I can now say that Schoolyear has more than fulfilled these promises!
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