Students argue that the testing systems have made them afraid to click too much or rest their eyes for fear they’ll be branded as cheats. Some students also said they’ve wept with stress or urinated at their desks because they were forbidden from leaving their screens.

One system, Proctorio, uses gaze-detection, face-detection and computer-monitoring software to flag students for any “abnormal” head movement, mouse movement, eye wandering, computer window resizing, tab opening, scrolling, clicking, typing, and copies and pastes. A student can be flagged for finishing the test too quickly, or too slowly, clicking too much, or not enough.

If the camera sees someone else in the background, a student can be flagged for having “multiple faces detected.” If someone else takes the test on the same network — say, in a dorm building — it’s potential “exam collusion.” Room too noisy, Internet too spotty, camera on the fritz? Flag, flag, flag.

Lisez l'article, c'est dingue et franchement digne d'un épisode de Black Mirror.

Y'a aussi ce fil Twitter qui est effrayant :

Hey @proctorio @artfulhacker How do you explain this?
You have strings referencing

"A Proctorio agent will review and verify the test taker's room scan"
and
“live id check”

All while still saying that professors are the only ones who can access recordings and look at students?

— Erik Johnson (@ejohnson99) September 8, 2020