Entire student houses caught cheating in online university exams Student housemates are sharing pictures of exam questions and completing papers as a team, experts say 28 June 2021 • 6:00am Entire student households are being caught cheating in online university exams, lawyers have warned as collusion becomes 'endemic'. The shift from exam halls to virtual assessments during the coronavirus crisis has seen rising numbers of students accused of malpractice, facing expulsion or having to repeat the year, experts say. Forced to sit exams in their bedrooms, some students are sharing questions with their housemates, by photographing answers and copying them, or taking it in turns to complete sections of the paper.