The rise of proctoring software to deter cheating alarms privacy advocates. Some students and professors find it invasive, too. By Shawn Hubler SACRAMENTO — As Daniel Farzannekou prepared to take an ...

While engaged in remote instruction, it may be necessary for students to take course exams through an online platform. If you feel extra precaution against academic dishonesty is necessary, there are ...

Cross-posted from the Marketplace K-12 blog. For the first time, most state-required summative assessments in U.S. elementary and middle schools will be administered via technology rather than by ...

Rebecca Torchia is a web editor for EdTech: Focus on K–12. Previously, she has produced podcasts and written for several publications in Maryland, Washington, D.C., and her hometown of Pittsburgh.

For the second year in a row, a handful of states experienced significant disruptions in online testing, creating such a high level of distrust with the technology-based process that some districts ...

A student takes an online exam for a business course. One online proctoring company has provided figures showing a dramatic increase in cheating since education went online because of the coronavirus.

The software being used for state testing in grades 3-8 crashed Tuesday morning across New York, leaving students unable to log in and complete the English language arts tests and causing the state to ...

This one is a bit of an evergreen, but ‘tis the season for chopping down evergreens. I’d like to chop this one down once and for all. We have online classes for which all of the graded work is done ...

Editorial Note: We earn a commission from partner links on Forbes Advisor. Commissions do not affect our editors' opinions or evaluations. The best online test-optional colleges allow students to ...