Manage student access to assignments

Your course might include tools to deter cheating during tests or quizzes:

• Pearson LockDown Browser - prevents students from printing, copying, accessing other applications, opening other browser windows, or searching the internet during an online test or quiz.
• Respondus Monitor Proctoring - builds upon Lockdown Browser by adding webcam proctoring to remotely monitor and record students taking an online test or quiz in the LockDown Browser.
• IP address restrictions - require students to take quizzes and tests within the IP address range used by your school's proxy servers.

You also can customize assignment settings for individual students:

• Enable access to incomplete tests
• Change assignment settings for individual students
• Allow students to submit assignments late
• Override prerequisites

Ways to combat student cheating

Explore how Learning Catalytics provides a way for you to engage students. Incorporate concepts and learning outcomes from your Learning Catalytics modules into your exams and other assignments to tie it all together for your students (make their in-class experience a productive one). Try to connect what they work on in Learning Catalytics to their professional aspirations, so they see the relevance and purpose.

Configure your course assignments:

• Make word problems worth more points.
• Consider removing learning aids from some assignments.
• Pool questions on quizzes and tests. Use algorithmic questions as often as possible, or pool static questions to provide some variety.
• Remove the View an Example learning aid; students will need to interact more with Help Me Solve This.
• Limit the number of attempts on a question to four or five. The use of Help Me Solve This counts as an attempt.
• Use low-stakes quizzing with companion study plans between the first and second attempt.
• Use personalized homework and/or companion study plans. This makes it hard to cheat when assignments are personalized.
• Allow students to use learning aids when reviewing tests and quizzes.
• Use Search/Email by Criteria to remind students of work due/look for inactivity.
• Look at the time spent on an assignment. You can check how long students spend on an assignment by displaying the Time tab or by exporting times or difficulty ratings.