[withinboredom]

Here’s the thing, if you want to cheat, you’ll find a way to cheat. This won’t stop anyone, it just stops casual cheating at a pretty hefty price.

Hell, just reading this article, I thought of various ways by having someone off screen listening to you read aloud and a projector mounted after the test starts, on the ceiling by another person who’s off screen.

You could have a kvm switch to a whole different computer, an AI overlaying data on the screen (reading from the video output, and injecting into the video output), or any number of ridiculously complicated setups.

It probably won’t catch any serious cheaters.

[toomuchtodo]

Picture in picture monitor with multiple sources. Credit to someone who mentioned this in a previous thread.

[Anon1096]

Most proctoring software that records the student would trivially root out the cheating method you mentioned about reading aloud the questions to someone else. They usually record audio as well, and if the software detects significant microphone input, will flag the test.

[pushrax]

Just mute your mic in hardware?

[Anon1096]

A lot of proctoring software will flag you for that as well. Then when the professor reviews the footage it will be obvious that you're talking to someone off screen.

[pushrax]

Do they analyze the noise floor or something? I guess you'd have to defeat that with a noise gate.

[rorykoehler]

Put your mic in another room then.

[wasdfff]

No need to overcomplicate it. These technologies can be overcome with a phone in your lap connected to a groupchat with everyone in the class, or even a piece of paper with your cheat sheet.