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Some professors use lockdown browsers during exams, which cause students unneeded stress and anxiety. Students shouldn't have to be recorded while taking tests.

The Collegiate Live By Breegan Petruska As colleges across the country have resorted to online and virtual teaching, many of these schools have turned to a new browser to help prevent students from cheating. The Lockdown Browser gains access to students’ video and audio on their computer to record them during tests.  Before accessing the test, there are a number of steps the student must take inside of the browser in order to take their test. They have to be in a quiet room where no one else is present. The student must show their surrounding environment to prove that there are no phone...

As students continue through another semester of online classes, new adjustments made to the online test taking system Respondus LockDown Browser cause increased stress.

As students continue through another semester of online classes, new adjustments made to the online test taking system Respondus LockDown Browser cause increased stress.

Examity Online proctoring has surged during the coronavirus pandemic, and so too have concerns about the practice, in which students take exams under the watchful eyes (human or automated) of third-party programs. Chief among faculty and student concerns are student privacy and increasing test anxiety via a sense of being surveilled. Pedagogically, some experts also argue that the whole premise of asking students to recall information under pressure without access to their course materials is flawed. This, they say, may only motivate students to game the system, when cheating is what online p...