Proctoring Options for Assessments

When deciding whether or not to proctor an exam, you are balancing three key considerations:

• Academic Integrity: Ensuring submissions represent students’ original thought, and are made by individuals who are who they say they are.
• Privacy: Protecting the students’ digital footprint, so their likeness, environment and mannerisms are not digitally distributed.
• Equity: Facilitating access to the course for students who might not have a clean testing environment, strong internet access, camera, or, in some cases, administrative access to their device.

Students are also balancing these values, and might request an alternative assessment mechanism. Instructors should be prepared to address student requests.

What are the options?