That's really interesting. I did a CS degree in the UK and all exams were strictly supervised and we were never allowed computers.
The exception to this was programming exams for which the department would boot all the lab workstations into a locked-down mode with no internet & new homedir containing only the exam files. At the end of the exam everything got collected and marked by an automated test suite.
The exception to this was programming exams for which the department would boot all the lab workstations into a locked-down mode with no internet & new homedir containing only the exam files. At the end of the exam everything got collected and marked by an automated test suite.
They went to quite some effort to ensure that no cheating could take place - http://pubs.doc.ic.ac.uk/Lexis/Lexis.pdf