![]() ![]() ![]() If a student feels watched or harassed, they should contact our Office for Equal Opportunity (Title IX) office. We have notified our IT staff about this. “The eye-tracking technology and pre-test checks in particular (which can include showing a complete view of the room you’re testing in as well as possibly even showing your ID) are frankly quite ridiculous.” “Not only does the browser implement extremely restrictive measures almost to the point of functioning as malware, but the webcam is also an extreme invasion of privacy,” said Sac State music education major Grant Johnson via Reddit direct message. Students are already expressing concerns about the Respondus Monitor tool. He said these students will need to inform their instructors if agreeing to the privacy statement is problematic for them. Respondus Monitor also requires students to agree to a privacy statement “with which they may not be comfortable,” Perez said. The tool will record students’ feed from a webcam to be used by instructors to verify that the testing conditions were “as expected,” Perez said.Īccording to Respondus’s website, the Respondus Monitor tool builds on its lockdown browser iteration, “using a student’s webcam and industry-leading video analytics to prevent cheating during non-proctored exams.” ![]() Sacramento State will implement browser extension Respondus Monitor to proctor online exams, according to an email to students sent Friday by Steve Perez, Sac State provost and vice president of academic affairs. ![]()
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