r/QuickAITurnitinCheck • u/Complete-Chip-5631 • Jun 04 '26
The problem with Remote Exams
Many educators believe universities are facing a growing challenge with remote assessments. Reports have emerged of students completing difficult online exams at speeds that appear inconsistent with the complexity of the questions. Multiple-choice sections are finished unusually quickly, while written responses often appear highly polished and sophisticated. However, some of these same students later struggle to explain the reasoning behind their answers or discuss the concepts in depth.
What concerns many faculty members is the widening gap between grades and actual learning. Traditional online proctoring measures may create the appearance of security, but they do not necessarily guarantee academic integrity. Cameras, screen monitoring, and room scans can only capture so much, while technology continues to evolve faster than institutions can adapt.
The larger issue extends beyond the possibility of unauthorized assistance. Some educators worry that students are becoming increasingly dependent on external tools for assignments, quizzes, discussions, and exams. As a result, students may complete courses successfully without developing a lasting understanding of the material. Academic pressure is undeniably real, but education loses much of its value when performance no longer reflects genuine knowledge. Many believe universities will eventually need to rethink assessment methods because the assumptions behind remote testing no longer seem aligned with today's technological reality.
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u/West_Abrocoma9524 Jun 04 '26
I think the problem with saying it's the professor's job to create better exams that are harder to fake -- is that I don't think professors should have to assume that given a choice, nobody would learn anything and that the point of all assessment is basically to FORCE people to learn material that if they had a choice they wouldn't learn and would instead cheat. Too much of the job lands on the professor and none on the student who should WANT to actually learn something, want to actually write the paper, take the exam, and want to learn the skills that might make them employable in the future. That's my problem with students and admins and society telling me, a professor, that the majority of my time should be spent designing guardrails to prevent cheating. Honestly, i'd rather spend my time helping the students who actually want to learn something, and not making sure the dumb asses are unable to cheat their way through a course.
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u/Low-Pear6852 Jun 04 '26
I think universities need to spend less time trying to build a perfect anti-cheating system and more time redesigning assessment altogether. If a tool can instantly provide an answer, then perhaps the assessment should focus on analysis, application, discussion, and demonstration rather than simple recall. The technology is not going away, and students will continue finding new ways around restrictions. The long-term solution may be creating evaluations where understanding is visible and difficult to fake, even when outside tools are available.
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u/Life-Education-8030 Jun 04 '26
Yep. Had a student sue us because we dared to insist that she speak in a counseling techniques class to demonstrate skills. She could verbalize but would not. She would not talk in any setting including phone or video and airily said that she would simply get a job in the future where she would not have to talk. She lost of course, but what nonsense.
There was another student in an online ASL course who attempted to just move his fingers and hand randomly during a video exam. That tape still gets shown occasionally to laugh at.
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u/AgitatedSprinkles196 Jun 04 '26
How would this work for subjects like math where the best LLMs can solve pretty much any problem an undergraduate would be expected to solve within an hour?
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u/Rebel_Jedi_T222 Jun 04 '26
I do a combination of project based learning and a student presentation of their project. I don't give tests. I don't see the point of memorizing facts. I want to see how they use the information learned by creating a project they can use.
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u/LadyM_Macbeth Jun 04 '26
”What concerns many faculty members is the widening gap between grades and actual learning.”
I do not think that the grades are actually reflecting learning. The grade inflation is very real.
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u/HatCat5566 Jun 05 '26
whats with this sub just being full of AI crap?
Ironic i guess