#Proctorio

Proctorio removed every instructor help video I shared from their YouTube channel. The following features now have incomplete instructor help: Abnormalities, Behaviour Flags, Suspicion Level, Room Scan, Abnormal Eye Movement,
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Here's a quote from Mike Olsen: "It’s hilarious, students pretending to care where their data goes. Whether they’re cheating or not, I don’t really care, but then they go out
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Imagine all you want to do is take a test, and the system your institution uses as a gateway to testing doesn't recognize you as a human being.https://www.vice.com/en/article/g5gxg3/proctorio-is-using-racist-algorithms-to-detect-faces &
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I think I may have bought some time. There are videos from Proctorio's instructor help. I think it's important for us in our communities to know how this software functions
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For anyone unfamiliar with it, Proctorio is a browser extension used to eliminate cheating through intense surveillance techniques. It records the computer screen while you take the exam to ensure
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Students at the Australian National University and other Australian educational institutions have signed up with US "invigilation" companies that produce anti-cheating spyware for students' computers. Students and faculty are furious.ht
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Faced with remote learning, educators had to figure out what to do about high-stakes testing: a pedagogically bankrupt adversarial practice of measuring students' educational outcomes by testing their performance in
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“Proctorio requested retraction of an article by Shea Swauger critical of algorithmic proctoring in the peer-reviewed journal @HybridPed. When the journal refused, Proctorio CEO Mike Olsen and the journal’s editor,
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High-stakes tests are garbage, pedagogically bankrupt assessment tools that act as a form of empirical facewash for "meritocracy."1/ They primarily serve as a way for wealthy parents to buy good
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any guesses? Turns out @zoom_us has a crappy face-detection algorithm that erases black faces...and determines that a nice pale globe in the background must be a better face than
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The Shitty Tech Adoption Curve describes the process by which oppressive technology is normalized and distributed through all levels of society. The more privilege someone has, the harder it is
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A faculty member has been asking how to stop Zoom from removing his head when he uses a virtual background. We suggested the usual plain background, good lighting etc, but
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Glad ⁦@Linkletter⁩ story is getting out there. Just want to comment on a few things...https://www.theverge.com/2020/10/22/21526792/proctorio-online-test-proctoring-lawsuit-universities-students-coronavirus This is a really pervasive, an
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For my latest @TeenVogue column, I wrote about how the remote proctoring softwares that many schools are using are an enormous invasion of student's privacy. Thread https://www.teenvogue.com/story/exam-surveillance-tools-remote-learning
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Hey @proctorio @artfulhacker How do you explain this? You have strings referencing"A Proctorio agent will review and verify the test taker's room scan"and“live id check”All while still saying that professors
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One of the most profound latent political statements in internet history was the decision to make "user-agent" the technical term for a web-browser - implying that the browser should work
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