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If you have a testing centre you don't need this kind of software, and if your students are scattered across the world due to Covid-19 travel restrictions, you can't have a testing centre for them. I consider invigilation absolutely crucial in a professional engineering degree in mid-terms and finals (engineers are more likely to hurt more people than lawyers). I don't think this kind of software is a crutch for the lazy; it's more work to organise and manage than human invigilators, and doesn't scale as well.

I don't think it's a slippery slope. We will have significantly more local students than remote for the foreseeable future, and the local students are invigilated in person. We have students wanting to opt into remote study, including using this software, but so far if they're local we tell them no (except under extreme circumstances).

parent mkl 5 years ago

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