Sunday, September 21, 2008

Discouraging Dishonesty

Many who have not taught online wonder how one can discourage dishonesty. There are many strategies that are easy to implement and not costly. A few of the more popular ones are:

  • Use unique case studies each semester
  • Require distant students to take exams using a proctor
  • Phone students (or use VoIP) for an oral exam
  • Try Turnitin or another anti-plagiarism software tool
  • Create an honor code for the class
  • Require annotated bibliographies for final papers
  • These and many other strategies can help you achieve a greater certainty of integrety than in on campus classes.

UIS has an online test proctoring policy: http://otel.uis.edu/Portal/teachers/proctoredexams/index.asp


There are several online anti-plagiarism tools, including:
http://www.turnitin.com/

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