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[quote=Anonymous]I teach college online.  Lockdown browsers do nothing.  Students just use a different device.  There's really no way to eliminate cheating, though adding an unexpected variation in the test will catch them for that test because their cheating preparation will be incomplete.

Instead, I make my exams open book/open note but put a time limit on so students can't look up every question.  I tell them to study as if it were closed book but in the end they'll probably have time to look up a couple of questions where they aren't certain.

A different issue is that (I'm not saying you're doing this but just a head's up) if you use test banks that come with a textbook or if you reuse tests from semester to semester, then some/all of your questions may well be googleable.  Students type in the question word for word and get the answer from someone who loaded the testbank in a prior semester.  These tests banks are often awful, anyway, but I sometimes find nice questions in them, and I reword them with synonyms to make them less googleable.

I also have many different questions in a test pool so there's not much overlap between the questions two friends might get.  (Not just for multiple choice questions, but also a pool of short answer questions/problems.)   There are challenges designing the tests this way and there are still definitely some issues, but I've ended up with grade distributions from A to F, so it seems to do something.  [/quote]

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