[Xerte] Quiz Security

[Julian Tenney]

Like I said, if passing the test puts you in control of an aircraft
acrrier or nuclear power station, then don't use Xerte. In fact, don't
use computers. Even if the system is secure (and very few are truly)
then unless you can see who is doing the test, how do you know the
student isn't cheating? How do you know it's the student you think it
is? How do you know they are not sitting there looking up the answers on
aircraftcarrierexams.com?

 

 

From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Mark
Tomlinson, AC&S Ltd
Sent: Wednesday, December 10, 2008 11:18 AM
To: 'Xerte discussion list'
Subject: RE: [Xerte] Quiz Security

 

To be quite frank, SCORM itself is not secure at all, never mind the
eLearning tool.  I was shown at EeLS an html / javascript file that
allows a user to set what they want in the LMS while their course is
running....  You want a 100% pass...No problem, click a button!  You
want to show 'completed'..... No problem, click a button!

 

Mark

 

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From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Julian Tenney
Sent: 10 December 2008 11:02
To: Xerte discussion list
Subject: RE: [Xerte] Quiz Security

 

I think it probably depends on what's at stake. If passing the exam
means a huge payrise, then students have a big incentive to try and
cheat. If the test is simply a formative test to give them feedback on
their learning, then you could argue that, as long as the students get
the feedback, they are continuing to learn.

 

If the test is high stakes, then Xerte probably isn't the tool for the
job. Students would have to try quite hard, and be reasonaly tech-savvy,
but they could get at the data if they really wanted to.

 

From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Leonardi
Sent: Wednesday, December 10, 2008 5:13 AM
To: Xerte discussion list
Subject: [Xerte] Quiz Security

 

Hello all, i'm new in e-learning and scorm things... :)

I have a question, if i create a scorm web based quiz using xerte does
it secure? Can the students somehow cheating and obtain the answer?

Thanks.

-- 
Leonardi - 
dodollipret.wordpress.com

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