[Alex7845]

> The problem at the core is not spyware and "room checks", they are just a symptom - the question rather is how exams are designed and why schools and universities go to such drastic lengths to prevent cheating.

You got the premise wrong. The main way that students cheat in online test is by communicating with other students/tutors and by having other people take the tests for them.

Doesn't matter how perfect your exam is if the student has a friend coaching them during the exam and telling them all the answers.

And it is far more common than you think. I have been tutoring for a for 5 years and there was a massive amount of students who tried to hire me to do online exams for them during the 2 years of covid. I probably would have done it if I was still a student full of debt at that time.