But at the same time, if you have to put draconian measures to discourage cheating as the last resort, maybe it's because the school is turning into a diploma mill and should review it's admission standards.
Isn't the issue more that administrators are panicking over the loss of control from the pandemic causing a norms break and are pushing dubious anti-cheating software on everyone out of do-somethingism more than any amount of cheating sufficent for dillution of graduate quality?
Granted the "value evaluation" gets a bit silly to begin with given that either they trust the name enough to use it as a filter regardless of its merit or lack of it or they ignore it entirely and go based off of their own assessment measures with their own sets of issues.
But at the same time, if you have to put draconian measures to discourage cheating as the last resort, maybe it's because the school is turning into a diploma mill and should review it's admission standards.