How can I keep students from distributing copies of a test administered through QuizSite?
There is no way to prevent all students from printing, saving or e-mailing copies of any QuizSite activity. For this reason, we generally discourage the use of QuizSite or other on-line testing software for highly important activities such as mid-term or final exams. However, some combination of the following measures may greatly reduce the instances of copying: • Give only a short time to complete the test, so that students will not have much time to both create and copy answers before the test expires. • Administer the test in a single room and physically monitor students by watching their computer screens. Take attendance to make sure that none of the students is taking the test from a computer outside the room. Configure the student browsers to hide and/or disable navigation controls. • Select only a random subset of questions by specifying RAND or STICKY in the activity settings. It will then be unlikely that any two students will receive exactly the same set of questions. • Use t
