Sara Morrison and Rebecca Heilweil, Vox

As the fall semester began at the University of Nevada, Reno, psychology professor Mark Lescroart faced an increasingly common dilemma for teachers: How to prevent his newly remote students from cheating on the quizzes and exams he’d designed to be taken in class with supervision. “I have been uncomfortable with the idea that cheating is pretty easy when you’re online,” Lescroart told Recode in October.  But Lescroart didn’t like the prospect of third-party software recording and analyzing his students in their homes. Ultimately, he decided that violating their privacy was worse than leaving a potential cheater uncaught.

https://www.vox.com/recode/22175021/school-cheating-student-privacy-remote-learning

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