Student Integrity in Online Classrooms
The need for hybrid and online education continues to grow and with it comes the dilemma of assessment—how does the instructor know who is actually doing the assignments? The fear is with no monitoring, students can—and will—use resources to cheat.
The Learning Technology Team at Truman recommends the following strategies to help deter a student’s ability to cheat:
- use performance (these can be recorded and uploaded to the LMS) and project-based assignments for high-stakes assessments
- vary assignment types and due dates
- use test banks to limit the chance of similar questions
- change assignments or discussion threads to eliminate copying in future semesters
- state expectations and consequences concerning academic dishonesty
- use a proctoring service for high-stakes exams
For a more comprehensive look at specific strategies, utilize the links below.
Strategies to Prevent Online Cheating
- What is Plagiarism? Facts and resources
- Designing Online Courses to Discourage Dishonesty from Educause
- Best Practice Strategies to Promote Academic Integrity
- Strategies for Plagiarism-Proofing Discussion Threads from MERLOT
- How to Reduce Plagiarism from the Journal of Information Systems Education
- Ethics and Distance Education Strategies
- Anti-Plagiarism Strategies for Research Papers
- Academic Integrity Stategies in Slideshare
- Cheating in Online Student Assessment: Beyond Plagarism
Proctoring Services
- NCTA Proctor Consortium Participants
- ProctorU Proctoring services
- Guidelines for Good Practice in Proctoring from WCET
- Online Learning Consortium
- Colorado State Online Proctoring and Faculty Handout
- University of West Florida proctoring guidelines
Academic Integrity Concerns in Online Classrooms
- Promoting Academic Integrity Online from MERLOT
- Who’s Really Taking the Online Course?
- E-Testing: The Future is Here
- Communities of Integrity in Online Learning from MERLOT