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Proctoring in person as normal but only by Examity (cost) for remote students. How do I give an exam with the same parameters without losing class time?

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Strategies for designing remote forms of assessment

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What are our options for online proctoring?

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Strategies for Remote exams

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10 Alternatives to Exams

This presentation by Karen Harris of Rutgers' Teaching and Learning With Technology presents an excellent list of 10 suggested alternatives to exams that can be aligned with many different subjects and goals.

Below is a quick list of her suggestions; see the presentation for much more detail:

1. Series of quizzes: offer a low-stakes opportunity for students to demonstrate mastery of material, and give you ongoing information about student understanding. Frequent quizzing has also been shown to reinforce student understanding. Both Canvas and Sakai can randomize questions in quizzes, making cheating more difficult.

2. Student-developed quiz questions: writing quiz questions both builds and demonstrates students' understanding of the material. This assignment can be structured as a collaborative group activity.

3. Open-book, take-home assessments: many disciplines already have a tradition of take-home exams, typically involving more conceptual or applied questions that students cannot quickly look up in a textbook.

4. Professional presentations or demonstrations: students can create audiovisual presentations using a variety of media, powerpoint, prezi, and other tools.

5. Annotated anthology or bibliography: this project gives students choice in selecting works while assessing their higher-order abilities to evaluate sources, compare multiple perspectives, and provide rationales for their choices.

6. Fact sheet: students create a one-page fact sheet on a topic. Students must select relevant facts and explain them clearly and concisely.

7. Peer- and self-review activity: these allow for personal reflection on learning and peer-to-peer instruction, both of which reinforce and deepen understanding. Students do need instruction in the task of providing constructive feedback. Targeted rubrics laying out expectations for student work are very helpful.

8. E-Portfolio: a student-selected portfolio of work from the semester. Students compile their best or representative work from the semester, writing a critical introduction to the portfolio and a brief introduction to each piece.

9. Non-Traditional Paper or Project: creative assignments work best when they have some "real-world" relevance and offer students some choice in delivery format.

10. Group Project: group projects require students to demonstrate mastery of subject matter and develop their ability to communicate and work collaboratively. It is crucial to make your assessment criteria and grading scheme clear, and to ensure that there are clear, explicit expectations for each team member.

For more detail on each of these 10 suggestions, please view the presentation here.

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Overview

Examity is an online proctoring service that allows online and distance learners to take exams without needing to schedule an on-campus visit and proctor.

For the latest information on the availability and cost of using Examity at IU, see Assess student learning during COVID-19.

Use Examity in Canvas

Examity is integrated into Canvas as an external tool. For instructions for adding Examity to a module, see How do I add an external tool as a module item? (Note that you cannot add Examity to your course navigation; it can only be added to a module at this time.)

The first time you click the link in your course, Examity creates your new course instance. After creating it, you'll need to click the link again to ensure that Examity receives your exam information, and to determine whether your students will need to pay the fees (see About Examity at IU). You need to do this every semester for all courses that use Examity. Examity will automatically import your exam information (for example, dates and times the exam is available, password). Importing is a nightly process that can take up to 24 hours to occur.

To use Examity in Canvas, you'll first create course assessments in the Canvas Quizzes tool or a third-party testing tool, and then use Examity to schedule assessments that require proctoring.

To set up an assessment to be proctored using Examity:

1. Create an assessment using one of the following methods:

The Canvas Quizzes tool: You don't need to create all of the questions for the assessment to schedule proctoring with Examity, but you must create and save the assessment.

You must use classic Canvas Quizzes with Examity; the New Quizzes tool will not work.

A third-party testing tool (such as a homework platform): Copy the link to the exam.

2. Be sure to password-protect your exam. Check and enter the password for the exam. Don't share this password with students; it ensures that students have authenticated with a proctor before taking the exam.

3. Publish your exam.

4. In Modules, click .

5. Click . The Examity dashboard will load. If you are using an assessment created in Canvas, and you have allowed time for the nightly import to occur, open the exam settings and check to make sure the imported information is correct.

The "Exam Name" should match the name of the assessment in Canvas Quizzes.

Choose the FairExam Level appropriate to your assessment (see Proctoring levels available).

"Upload a File" and "Exam UserName" are optional.

Choose additional rules or give special instructions as necessary

6. Click and close the window.

7. Communicate with your students to let them know they must access their assessments via Examity. Examity provides a toolkit of customizable communication and email templates to help with this communication, including language you can include in your course syllabus to inform students of your use of Examity.

Practice exams

UITS strongly recommends that you offer your students a practice exam so that they can gain familiarity with Examity before any graded work is due.

Privacy and security

Examity has been vetted for privacy and security standards as part of IU's contract with the company. You and your students may have confidence that their data is secure when using Examity. See below for sample syllabus language to share with them.

Sample syllabus language

Following is sample language regarding Examity and data security that you may wish to include in your course syllabus.

When your instructor uses a third-party teaching and learning tool through Canvas, the company and the application have been vetted for compliance with IU's policies regarding privacy and data security. As part of the vetting process, all third parties must ensure that 1) they are only accessing data they require to perform the service, and 2) they are securing that data appropriately during both transfer and storage. For more, see Classification levels of institutional data.

When using Examity for online exams, government IDs, security questions, and video feeds of the test-taking environment are encrypted to ensure the data is protected from unauthorized access. Only properly authorized people, instructors and the service administrators, have access to the information and the videos that are stored. All videos are saved for a prescribed period of time and then deleted. The individual proctors work in proctoring centers with supervisors overseeing them, and everything they do is recorded on video and audio.

Get help and learn more

Consult the resources below for pedagogical or technical assistance with Examity.

Documentation

Access videos, instructor and student quick guides, and email templates to use with students at Examity Integrations. Be sure you're using the resources under the Canvas logo.

Contact Examity

Examity provides 24/7 phone, live chat, and email support for students and faculty using the service:

Phone: 855-Examity (855-392-6489)

Live Chat: Available on the Examity site

Email: support@examity.com

To contact Examity's IU account manager, Cheryl Esselen:

Teaching and learning centers

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Examity is an online proctoring service that allows online and distance learners to take exams without needing to schedule an on-campus visit and proctor. For the latest information on the availability and cost of using Examity at IU, see Assess student learning during COVID-19. Examity is integrated into Canvas as an external tool.

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Fourteen Simple Strategies to Reduce Cheating on Online Examinations 

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Fourteen Simple Strategies to Reduce Cheating on Online Examinations 

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Faculty Focus Article
https://www.facultyfocus.com/articles/educational-assessment/fourteen-simple-strategies-to-reduce-cheating-on-online-examinations/

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Alternative Assessment Methods for the Online Classroom 

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Alternative Assessment Methods for the Online Classroom 

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15 Rules of Netiquette for Online Discussion Boards [INFOGRAPHIC]

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15 Rules of Netiquette for Online Discussion Boards [INFOGRAPHIC]

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Fourteen Simple Strategies to Reduce Cheating on Online Examinations

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Fourteen Simple Strategies to Reduce Cheating on Online Examinations

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Remote Exams and Assessments - Tips for Exams and Alternative Assessments

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CTLA - Netiquette / Academic Integrity (Alternative Assessment)

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CTLA - Netiquette / Academic Integrity (Alternative Assessment)

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Resources for faculty
https://www.iuk.edu/ctla/faculty-preparation-for-fall-series/netiquette-and-academic-integrity.html

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Preparing for a pivot to remote

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To be consistent, move all assessment online.

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Students can then create products aligning to the theme and will help to avoid cheating.

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Limit the resources that students can use on essay creation.

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Make sure any proctoring processes are clearly described to students.

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Examity and Respondus monitor are the only proctoring tools in the IU system.

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Reviewing videos from Examity or Respondus of your students taking exams takes many hours and is very subjective.

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Putting a time limit on the exam helps to reduce cheating. And giving multiple exam versions.

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Students have different definitions of academic integrity. Crowd sourcing is normal behavior in social online environments.

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Make sure it is clear to students what is allowed, can students work together?

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Add an oral component of students responses to replicate their responses one on one with the instructor.

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Is there a way to check what we, as instructors, write to make sure what we say is not interpreted differently?

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Instructors can share their background and share the language of the discipline so students are aware of the expectations and the acceptable language and norms in the classroom and the online classroom.

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Instructors can make it clear to students that they are comfortable with students correcting terms/names/titles for groups in which they belong.