Presentation from the 2014 Mountain Moot discussing online course policies to prevent and mitigate cheating.

2. What are we really talking about?

3. Security and Authenticity
we’ll discuss tools, methods, tricks of the trade,
best practices and other means of preventing
cheating, catching cheating and maintaining
order in online courses
Most will be from experience, not everything
will be currently employed in a production
environment

4. How would you cheat?
AUDIENCE PARTICIPATION TIME!

5. How would I cheat?
Copy someone elses paper
Get the test bank online
Pay someone to take my course

6. Copy another paper
“A Farewell to Arms was a story
written by Ernest Hemingway and
narrated about Lieutenant Fredrick
Henry personal experiences in the
Italian army. He uses a first person
narration although he sometimes
switches to the second person for
some philosophical reflections. The
narrative structure enables the reader
to capture the plot setting of the story.
By indicating the participation in
World War 1 the reader are able to…”

7. Get the test bank

8. Pay someone to take my course
For the most accurate price, simply
e-mail your class syllabus to
sales@onlineclasshelp.com or call
1-855-438-4936 EXT 1 to speak
with a sales representative.

9. So how do we prevent it?
1. Cheatability
2. Identity Verification
3. Authentication

10. Cheatability…
Your course is susceptible (and how)
cheatability quiz.

12. Honor Code continued…
Site Terms and Conditions: http://yourmoodle.com/admin/settings.php?section=sitepolicies
Prior to assignment submission:
http://docs.moodle.org/27/en/Assignment_settings#Require_that_students_accept_the_Submission_statement
Prior to quiz launch:
1. conditional: http://docs.moodle.org/27/en/Conditional_activities_settings#Activity_completion
2. mod: https://moodle.org/plugins/view.php?plugin=quizaccess_honestycheck

13. Best Practices in Examinations
● Randomized test banks
● Non-publisher test banks
● Timed
● IP restricted?
● Lock-down Browser?
● 1 to 2-3 (higher the better) ratio questions
asked to questions in the bank
● Proctored

14. ID verification
For Quizzes/Exams

15. ID verifications
non exams

16. ID verification
Logs
IP addresses

17. Authentication

18. Super Cool Ish
http://eproktor.com

19. Super Cool Ish
http://ilite.wordpress.com/2014/06/13/moodle-
login-using-face-recognition/

20. Sources and Images
Images:
● locks: http://unsplash.com/
● honor code: http://www.pingry.org/