This is what happens when you try to squeeze IRL teaching methods like written exams into a paradigm of online teaching.
Written exams aren't the norm for in-person teaching because they're particularly good at testing ability, they're the norm because they're easy to administer. In an online setting they are functionally impossible to administer, so guess what? Find a different way to grade students.
Make them write a paper. A detailed lab report. Work on a project. If your written test is already just one of several components for grading, just fucking skip it. That's what I did last semester.
If you really want to stick to the "you have x minutes to complete this task" formula, make it an open book (open browser) exam. If you can't come up with problems that aren't trivialized by access to a pc or the internet, your course probably doesn't teach anything worthwhile in the first place.
If you can’t come up with problems that aren’t trivialized by access to a pc or the internet, your course probably doesn’t teach anything worthwhile in the first place.
About as useful as making fire with two sticks is to a man with a lighter.
This is what happens when you try to squeeze IRL teaching methods like written exams into a paradigm of online teaching.
Written exams aren't the norm for in-person teaching because they're particularly good at testing ability, they're the norm because they're easy to administer. In an online setting they are functionally impossible to administer, so guess what? Find a different way to grade students.
Make them write a paper. A detailed lab report. Work on a project. If your written test is already just one of several components for grading, just fucking skip it. That's what I did last semester.
If you really want to stick to the "you have x minutes to complete this task" formula, make it an open book (open browser) exam. If you can't come up with problems that aren't trivialized by access to a pc or the internet, your course probably doesn't teach anything worthwhile in the first place.
About as useful as making fire with two sticks is to a man with a lighter.